Dutch High-School Students Internship Programme 2018

Projects and supervisors

Students & Project split

 

	Projects	Supervisors	Main Place of work	Description	Requirements	Students
1	Secondary Beams and Experimental Areas	Lau Gatignon (163554)	530	Some visits to beam lines and experimental areas (if dosimeter ok) - Understand beam transport of last part of proton beam (P42) to the T10 production target for the NA62 beam. Have a look at small optics modification to focus protons on a new beam dump position for a future dark matter search proposal. - Modify the last part of the P42 beam to change the angle of incidence of the beam on the T10 target from 0 or 2.4 mrad to 8 mrad and adjust the focusing onto the T10 target. This would serve the KLEVER experiment. - If time is left, understand the KLEVER neutral beam and its collimation scheme and draw up details of the collimation scheme.	Dosimeter	Thijs Hoevenaars Sjoerd Reinhoudt
2	CERN Central Cryogenic Laboratory (CryoLab)	Johan Bremer (160553)	165	After having been briefed on the safety in cryogenics, an introduction to cryogenics and especially to heat transfer at low temperatures will be given. The students shall then prepare a test set-up on heat transfer measurements at liquid nitrogen temperatures, and perform foreseen measurements. These experiments are followed by an introduction to superfluid helium and superconductive magnets. With the help of specialized personnel a glass cryotstat shall be cooled to liquid helium temperatures (-269 C), after which the bath shall be lowered to superfluid helium temperatures. Some particular phenomena’s of superfluid helium shall be observed and the superconducting transition temperature of a magnet placed in the helium bath shall be measured. Test reports and an end of the project presentation shall be prepared with help from the laboratory collaborators.		Matthijs van de Poel Koen de Vries Twan Terpstra
3	Vacuum Coatings	Wil Vollenberg (164439)	101	Thin films are widely used for components for particle accelerators. The aim of coatings is to modify the surface characteristics of an object. Coatings are performed by Physical Vapour Deposition. Quality control of the deposited thin films includes Surface Analysis, adhesion tests and thickness measurement. A new portable thickness measurement unit is acquired and should be calibrated.   During the stage we will perform several coatings, measure the thickness with our portable unit and compare it with measurements that will be done with our existing equipment, as reference measurement.		Tijs Aarts Peter Jongenburger Thijs Vernooij
4	Beam quality throughout the LHC injector chain	Bettina Mikulec (162393) Frank Tecker (163077) Verena Kain (160199)	874	The LHC injector chain is responsible for producing high brightness and high quality beam for the LHC. The beam brightness is directly related to the number of collisions that will take place in the LHC experiments.   The aim of the project is to learn about the beam production and concepts such as transverse emittance and beam brightness. In a second stage you will make various beam quality measurements and calculate the beam brightness with the aim to identify potential areas of brightness degradation along the LHC injector chain.		Jasmijn Tromp Wiebe Flamman
5	Running REX-IBIS for HIE-ISOLDE	Alberto Rodriguez (167538) Erwin Siesling (164585)	508	ISOLDE Operation and isotope resonance peak searches.	Dosimeter	Veerle Hoedemaker Romme van der Kemp Jochanan Maaijen
6	Particle Physics in CMS	Martijn Mulders (73635) Peter Meiring	40-1B	Introduction to the basics of physics analysis at the CMS experiment. We will analyze millions of collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider in 2017 to search   for special elementary particles and measure their properties. Some of the real tools used by physicists to visualize and analyze the CMS data are used.   Ratio of physics/engineering/computing content of the project : 60% - 0% - 40%   Computing: basic knowledge of Linux and programming (C++ or Python) would be beneficial	CMS computer account	Maurits van Altvorst Reinier de Waard Gijs Pennings Annemarijn Zwerver Leander van Wijlick
7	Simulation code optimisation	Fons Rademakers, (163742) Maarten Litmaath (168851)	513	Simulation codes.		Annejan van den Dool Jard van Roest Renze Vroom
8	Superconducting Detector Magnet Design	Erwin Bielert (169310)	582	Superconductivity plays a major role in the technologies applied at CERN. From coatings in RF cavities, to bending and focussing magnets in the LHC, but also huge detector magnet systems, like the solenoid in CMS and the solenoid and toroid systems in ATLAS. In the ATLAS magnet group, people are working on several new concepts for future detector magnets. The students will get introduced to the basic concepts in magnet design, but will also perform some measurements to better understand the behavior of superconducting materials in the form of tapes and cables. Numerical analysis will be performed for a feasibility study of such systems.		Daniel Norbart Tim van Dijk Ole Grootes