Please return to : Olaf Behnke ZEUS/F1  01a/O1.132    Tel. 3854
   or email  to   : obehnke@mail.desy.de,doris.eckstein@desy.de


   Request for a DESY Summer Student in 2013
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   Name : Rainer Mankel        email : Rainer.Mankel@cern.ch      
  
   Tel  : 2339                 Room : 1b / O2.209
 
   DESY-Group/Experiment : CMS

 
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   Short description of the project the student should work on  :

   CMS is one of the large multi-purpose experiments at the CERN 
   Large Hadron Collider. In summer 2012, a new particle has been 
   discovered which is a very strong candidate for the long sought-for
   Higgs boson. The currently highest physics priority is the detailed 
   investigation of this Higgs boson candidate's properties, and the 
   search for other Higgs-like particles which could be indicative of an
   extended Higgs sector. The CMS Higgs group at DESY is involved at the
   cutting edge in analyses of di-fermion final states, either two b quarks
   or two tau leptons, which are also promising channel to search for 
   supersymmetric extensions of the Higgs model. 

   The summer student will participate in studying various aspects of the
   analysis procedure with the help of simulated signal and background 
   events, as well as data recorded with the CMS detector. The computations 
   will be performed at the National Analysis Center (NAF) at DESY, and
   involve using the CMS Grid resources.



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   Physics / Computing/ Engineering  Content of the project :

   Physics of the Higgs boson, including supersymmetric extensions. 
   Teamwork an analysis group embedded in a large international 
   collaboration. Use of a highly distributed computing framework.
   Grid computing. Application of CMS-specific and general software 
   tools for analysis.



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  Special Qualifications expected from the student ( Computing,...) :
 
  Interest & some skills in programming. Some experience with C++ or Python
   would help, ideally also with the Root system.
  

 
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  Other remarks :  



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   Supervisor(s) during the project (16/07/12 - 5/09/12) :
 
  
   Name:               Tel:       email :
   Rainer Mankel       2339       Rainer.Mankel@cern.ch
   Joerg Behr          5673       Joerg.Behr@desy.de
   Roberval Walsh      4849       Roberval.Walsh@desy.de