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

Alexis Descroix

Information

Institute: EKP
Room: Campus North 406
Phone: 23819
Email: alexis.descroix#kit.edu

Doctoral Thesis Topic

Differential Cross-Section Measurement of Top-Quark-Pair Events as a Function of the Number of Jets with the CMS Detector
Date of PhD exam: 3rd of July 2015.

Publications

publications in refereed journals

other publications

  • Diploma Thesis: "Study of b-Tagging Algorithms for Top-Quark Physics at CMS" (link)
  • One of the main authors of a Physics Analysis Summary in the CMS collaboration: "Measurement of jet multiplicity in top pair events" (link)

talks at international conferences

  • TOP2014, 7th international workshop on top-quark physics, 10-12 Sep 2014, Cannes, France (link). Poster presented: "Jet Multiplicity in Top Pair Events at CMS" (link). The proceedings can be found here.
  • Workshop on Jet Vetoes and Jet Multiplicity Observables at the LHC, 17-19 Jul 2013, IPP, Durham, United Kingdom (link). Talk given: "Top production with N-jets and with jet-vetoes at CMS" (link).

talks at other conferences

  • Conferences, Schools, and Workshops:
    • Workshop of the German funding group for CMS, 10-12 Sep 2014, Aachen, Germany (link). Talk given: "Jets in ttbar → l+jets events at 8 TeV" (link).
    • 7th Annual Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", 2-4 Dec 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany (link).
    • Automn School of High Energy Physics of Maria Laach, 3-13 Sep 2013, Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach, Germany (link). Talk given: "Messung des differentiellen Top-Quark-Antiquark-Paar-Wirkungsquerschnitts mit zusätzlichen Abstrahlungen bei CMS" (link).
    • Annual workshop of the HGF Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", 3-5 Dec 2012, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, (link). Talk given: "Measurement of the Jet Multiplicity in Top Quark Pair Events in the Semi-Leptonic Decay Channel at CMS" (link).
    • Workshop of the German funding group for CMS, 30 Sep-2 Oct 2012, Zeuthen, Germany. Talk given: "Differential Cross-Section of tt Events in Additional Parton Multiplicity" (link).
  • Spring Meetings of the German Physical Society (DPG):
    • DPG 2014, 24-28 Mar 2014, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany (link). Talk given: "Messung des differentiellen Top-Quark-Antiquark-Paar-Wirkungsquerschnitts mit zusätzlichen Abstrahlungen bei CMS" (link).
    • DPG 2013, 4-8 Mar 2013, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany (link). Talk given: "Messung des differentiellen Top-Quark-Antiquark-Paar-Wirkungsquerschnitts mit zusätzlichen Abstrahlungen bei CMS" (link).
    • DPG 2012, 27 Feb-2 Mar 2012, Goettingen, Germany (link). Talk given: "Untersuchung des Produktionswirkungsquerschnitts für Top-Quark-Antiquark-Paaren mit zusätzlichen Jets bei CMS" (link).
    • DPG 2011, 28 Mar-1 Apr 2011, Karlsruhe Institut of Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany (link). Talk given: "Validierung robuster CMS b-Tagging Algorithmen und derren Anwendung in Top-Quark-Analysen bei CMS" (link).
  • KIT-Internal Events:
    • Plenary Workshop of KSETA, 4-6 Mar 2015, Durbach, Germany (link). Talk given: "Jet Production in Top-Quark Pair Events Measured with CMS" (link).
    • Workshop of the KIT graduated school for elementary particle physics, 20-22 Sep 2014, Bad Liebenzell, Germany (link).
    • Plenary Workshop of KSETA, 24-26 Feb 2014, Bad Herrenalb, Germany (link).
    • Workshop of the KIT graduated school for elementary particle physics, 30 Sep-2 Oct 2013, Bad Liebenzell, Germany (link). Talk given: "Top Pair Production with N-jets at CMS" (link).
    • Workshop of the KIT graduated school for elementary particle physics, 8-10 Oct 2012, Bad Liebenzell, Germany (link).
    • PhD Symposium of the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists, 22 Mar 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany (link). Poster presented: "Top Quark Pairs Produced with Additional Jets at the LHC" (link).
    • Workshop of the KIT graduated school for elementary particle physics, 5-7 Oct 2011, Bad Liebenzell, Germany (link).

Tutoring During PhD

  • Winter semester 2014/15: Computer usage in physics.
  • Summer semester 2013: Particle physics II: W, Z, and Top at colliders.
  • Summer semester 2012: Modern physics for teaching-degree candidates and ingenier-pedagogics, geophysics, and meteorology students.
  • Winter semester 2011/12: Advanced particle physics.

KSETA Courses Attended

  • Studies of atmospheric neutrinos, July 2014.
  • Applying Python in Scientific Computing, April 2014.
  • Project Management, March 2014.
  • Management in enterprises and industry, October 2013.
  • The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC, October 2013.
  • Introduction to astroparticle physics, cosmology and neutrino physics, February 2013.
  • Parallel software design for scientists, February 2013.