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