Diploma and Doctoral theses at the DESY location in Hamburg

DESY Hamburg is offering opportunities for diploma and doctoral theses in the following fields:

• Particle Physics
• Synchrotron Radiation
• Accelerator Physics

DESY in Hamburg does not grant diploma or doctoral degrees directly but collaborates with several universities, predominantly with the University of Hamburg. Candidates for thesis research will have to satisfy the universities' terms of admission for diploma and doctoral theses.

1. Particle Physics

Experimental particle physics at the HERA ring accelerator: collision experiments to investigate the fundamental characteristics of matter and forces.

H1, ZEUS: fundamental interactions between particles, measurements to reveal the structure of the proton, research beyond the standard model of particle physics.
Contact ZEUS:
Prof. Dr. Peter Schleper (schleper@mail.desy.de)

HERMES: measuring the spin of quarks in protons and neutrons
Contact:
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Nowak (Wolf-Dieter.Nowak@desy.de)

Theory of Particle Physics
The theory group works in the fields of phenomenology of elementary particles, field theory, lattice gauge theory and cosmology.
Contact

Experimental Particle Physics with High Energy Electron-Positron Collisions
Contact:
Dr. Ties Behnke (Ties.Behnke@desy.de)

Experimental Particle Physics at LHC
Study of proton collisions at the highest energies, tests of the Standard Model and search for new particles and phenomena.
Contact ATLAS:
Prof. Dr. Johannes Haller (Johannes Haller@desy.de)
Contact CMS:
Prof. Dr. Joachim Mnich (Joachim Mnich@desy.de)

2. Photon Science

The interdisciplinary research laboratory HASYLAB
Utilization of synchrotron radiation and X-ray laser radiation in experiments of natural science, life science, earth science and materials science. Also utilization of X-ray laser radiation in the future.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Edgar Weckert (edgar.weckert@desy.de)


The Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science
Fundamental and applied research in the use of novel X-ray sources to understand materials and biological systems approaching the atomic length and time scales.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Henry Chapman (henry.chapman@desy.de)

3. Accelerator Physics

Basic research in physics and collaboration in the technical implementation of superconducting accelerators for elementary particle physics, storage rings for the generation of synchrotron radiation, the VUV free-electron laser and the projected X-ray laser.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rossbach (joerg.rossbach@desy.de)
Dr. Bernhard Schmidt (bernhard.schmidt@desy.de)
Prof. Dr. Peter Schmüser (peter.schmueser@desy.de)