JRG Frank Simon - Detector Development in Particle Physics

Dr. Frank Simon
Boltzmannstr. 2
D-85748 Garching

Room 022
Tel +49 89 35831 7122
Fax +49 89 3299 4002

Research area(s): B,C,D

Research interests:

• Experimental particle physics:
  • Searches for physics beyond the standard model
  • Precision measurements
  • Heavy flavor physics
• Detector development for future colliders:
  • Calorimetry at the ILC
  • Reconstruction, calibration and software compensation algorithms for hadron calorimeters, Particle Flow Algorithms
  • Silicon-based photon sensors
  • Silicon pixel detectors
• Novel acceleration techniques:
  • Plasma wakefield acceleration

 Current research activities:

• Development of highly granular hadron calorimeters for the International Linear Collider within the CALICE collaboration
• Analysis of CALICE test beam data
• Construction of a new silicon pixel vertex tracker for the Belle-II experiment at the upgraded KEK-B facility in Japan
• Analysis of Belle data, studies of CP violation
• Feasibility study for a proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator

Group members:

• Dr. Jeremy Dalseno (Postdoc, +49 89 32354-344)
• Andreas Moll (PhD student, +49 89 32354-372)
• Kolja Prothmann (PhD student, +49 89 32354-344)
• Katja Seidel (PhD student, +49 89 32354-402)
• Christian Soldner (PhD student, +49 89 32354-307)
• Michael Tesar (PhD student)
• Lars Weuste (PhD student, +49 89 32354-402)
• Philipp Klenze (Diploma student)
• Simon Pfau (Deploma student)

More information: Webpage at the MPI for Physics