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Members of the Karlsruhe team

• Stefan Gieseke
• Manuel Bähr
• Luca D'Errico
• Christoph Hackstein
• Simon Plätzer
• Phil Stephens

The Karlsruhe team

The Karlsruhe team consists of Stefan Gieseke, three graduate students and one Diploma student at Karlsruhe University and Phil Stephens at Kennesaw State University (formerly INP Crakow).

Currently, there are three graduate students, working 100% of their time on the Herwig++ project. Simon Plätzer is working on CKKW matching in e⁺e^--collisions and hadronic collisions. He also considers a general formulation of parton showers in terms of generating functionals in order to facilitate matching to higher order matrix elements. Manuel Bähr is working on models for the underlying event. His first project was the implementation of a mutliple interaction model similar to Jimmy in Herwig++. He will continue studying extensions of this model and its phenomenological consequences. One of the first MCnet PhD students, Luca D'Errico, works in Karlsruhe. He has a joint studentship with Durham University, where he will move during the second half of his PhD work. His studies will also be related to the matching of parton showers to higher order perturbative calculations. The Diploma student Christoph Hackstein investigates Higgs production via the Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) subprocess and its phenomenology within the framework of Herwig++.

Phil Stephens participated in the development of some modules of Herwig++ in the early stage of the project and is still giving valuable input during weekly telephone conferences. He will spend 20% of his time on the project.

The environment in Karlsruhe is ideal for training ESRs. There are two theory institutes, the Institut für Theoretische Physik and the Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik with a large number of academic staff and postdocs at the university with expertise in Higgs-physics, B-physics, Multiloop computations and other LHC/Monte Carlo related areas. This is complemented with a large involvement in present and future collider experiments (CDF, BaBar, CMS) and neutrino experiments and astroparticle physics at the Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The regular curriculum includes advanced courses in theoretical and experimental particle physics, supplemented by regular courses that are held in conjunction with the Graduiertenkolleg Hochenergiephysik und Teilchenastrophysik.