New Junior Research Group at the Universe Cluster

A new Junior Research Group (JRG) for experimental particle physics has been established at the Excellence Cluster Universe since April 1. The group will study the properties of heavy quarks under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Jochen Schieck.

Jochen Schieck did his doctorate in Heidelberg and came to the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik after spending two years at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. At Stanford he was involved in the ATLAS Experiment for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and in the OPAL/JADE Experiment.

With his new research group at the Universe Cluster, Jochen Schieck will continue his work on the ATLAS detector particularly in the area of the interpretation of data from the inner detector (ID), the tracker of the ATLAS Experiment. Another main focus of the new JRG will be the analysis of events with bottom (b) quarks. The high b quark cross section makes it possible to perform precision measurements in the area of B physics. These measurements will permit an alternative approach to new physics beyond the Standard Model and broaden the search for new physics with the help of high transverse energy, one of the main tasks of the ATLAS Experiment.

Furthermore, the group will also play an important role in the development of the Belle II Detector, a spectrometer located in the Japanese research center for particle physics KEK. This spectrometer is used in the study of B physics, especially CP violation in B mesons.