Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA)

Alexander Heidelbach

Information

Institute: ETP
Building: 30.32
Room: 9-22
Phone: +49 721 608 43418
Email: Alexander.Heidelbach#kit.edu
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Torben Ferber
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Klute

PhD Topics

  • Preliminary Title: Search for Axion Like Particle Decays into Photons at Belle II and Future Beam-Dump Experiments

Subsequent topics

  • Search for the \(B\to K a, a\to \gamma\gamma\) Decay at Belle II
  • Automated Photon Energy Resolution Calibration at Belle II
  • Design of a Photon Tracking Calorimeter for Future Beam-Dump Experiments

Master's Thesis

Sensitivity Study in the Search for \(B^\pm\to K^\pm a, a\rightarrow \gamma\gamma\) (displaced \(a\to\gamma\gamma\)) Decays at Belle II
Date: April 28th, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Torben Ferber
Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr. Günter Quast

Bachelor's Thesis

Untersuchung eines automatisierten Arbeitsablaufs zur Erstellung von Interpolationsgittern in perturbativer QCD
Date: November 16th, 2019
Advisor: Priv. Doz. Dr. Klaus Rabbertz
Co-Advisor: Prof. Dr. Günter Quast

Publications

Conferences and Talks

■ Alexander Heidelbach, Giacomo De Pietro, Torben Ferber, and Pablo Goldenzweig
Search for ALPs in \(e^+e^-\to\gamma a, a\to\gamma\gamma\) at Belle II
DPG Frühjahrstagung Karlsruhe 2024, Teilchenphysik, Search for New Particles  
■ Alexander Heidelbach, Pablo Goldenzweig, Torben Ferber
Search for \(B^\pm\to K^\pm a, a\rightarrow \gamma\gamma\) at Belle II
Belle II General Meeting KEK (Tsukuba) 2023, Dark Sector  
■ Alexander Heidelbach, Torben Ferber
Automatisation of the Photon Energy Resolution Calibration
Belle II Germany Meeting Karlsruhe 2023, Software, Performance and Computing  
■ Alexander Heidelbach, Torben Ferber
Automated Photon Energy Resolution Calibration at Belle II
DPG Frühjahrstagung Dresden 2023, Teilchenphysik, Detector Systems  
■ Alexander Heidelbach, Pablo Goldenzweig, Torben Ferber
Sensitivity study for \(B^\pm\to K^\pm a, a\rightarrow \gamma\gamma\) at Belle II
Belle II Germany Meeting München 2022, Analysis and Theory  
■ Alexander Heidelbach, Pablo Goldenzweig, Torben Ferber
Sensitivity study for \(B^\pm\to K^\pm a, a\rightarrow \gamma\gamma\) (displaced \(a\to\gamma\gamma\)) at Belle II
DPG Frühjahrstagung Heidelberg 2022, Teilchenphysik, Search for New Particles  

Awards and Prices

Title Awarder Year
Auszeichnung für herausragendes studentisches Engagement KIT 2021

Workshops & Summer Schools

Date Event
2023, 20.08. - 02.09. 44th CERN School of Computing, Tartu, Estonia
2023, 22.05. - 26.05. Belle II Academy, Bad Kissingen, Germany
2023, 27.03. - 29.03. 10th KSETA Plenary Workshop, Durbach, Germany
2023, 27.02. - 01.03. KSETA Ph.D. Workshop, Bad Herrenalb, Germany
2022, 17.10. - 21.10. Workshop on Feebly-Interacting Particles, CERN, Switzerland
2021, 19.08. - 24.08. Bad Honnef Physics School on Axions and WISPs, Germany

Teaching Experience

Date Position Course
SS 2023 Exercises Computer-based Data Analysis
WS 2022/23 Tutor Particle Physics 1
WS 2021/22 Exercises Computers in Physics
SS 2021 Tutor Modern Methods of Data Analysis
WS 2020/21 Exercises Computers in Physics
SS 2020 Tutor Modern Theoretical Physics I, Quantum Mechanics 1
WS 2019/20 Tutor Classical Theoretical Physics III, Electrodynamics
SS 2019 Tutor Classical Theoretical Physics II, Analytical Mechanics
WS 2018/19 Tutor Classical Physics Laboratory Course I
SS 2018 Tutor Computer-based Data Analysis

Work Reports (internal)

KSETA Work Report 2023