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

Christian Amstutz

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Institute: IPE
Email: christian.amstutz#kit.edu
Skills: C++, STL, Boost, SystemC, VHDL, FPGA, Digital Hardware, TikZ (Graphs in LaTeX)

Phd Thesis

Evaluation of an Associative Memory and FPGA-based System for the Track Trigger of the CMS-Detector
Date of defense: 22. July 2016

Publications (peer reviewed)

publications-reviewed
[1] Christian Amstutz and Oliver Sander. A Library to Model and Configure Large Regular Structures in SystemC. IEEE. [ bib ]
[2] Christian Amstutz, F. A. Ball, M. N. Balzer, J Brooke, L. Calligaris, D. Cieri, E. J. Clement, A Hall, T. R. Harbaum, K. Harder, P. R. Hobson, G. M. Iles, T. James, K. Manolopoulos, T. Matsushita, A. D. Morton, and D. Newbold. An FPGA-Based Track Finder for the L1 Trigger of the CMS Experiment at the High Luminosity LHC. IEEE. [ bib ]
[3] Christian Amstutz, F. A. Ball, M. N. Balzer, J Brooke, L. Calligaris, D. Cieri, E. J. Clement, A Hall, T. R. Harbaum, K. Harder, P. R. Hobson, G. M. Iles, T. James, K. Manolopoulos, T. Matsushita, A. D. Morton, and D. Newbold. Emulation of a prototype FPGA track finder for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade with the CIDAF emulation framework. IEEE. [ bib ]
[4] C. Amstutz, G. Magazzù, M. Weber, and F. Palla. A simulation framework for the CMS Track Trigger electronics. JINST, 10(03):P03029, 2015. [ bib | DOI ]
[5] Georges Aad et al. Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments. Phys. Rev. Lett., 114:191803, 2015. [ bib | DOI | arXiv ]
[6] Vardan Khachatryan et al. Search for supersymmetry with photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8  TeV. Phys. Rev., D92(7):072006, 2015. [ bib | DOI | arXiv ]
[7] Vardan Khachatryan et al. Search for pair-produced vector-like B quarks in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. 2015. [ bib | arXiv ]

Attended Conferences, Workshops and Schools

  • Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
    September 2016, Limassol (CY)
  • KSETA Plenary Workshop
    February 2016, Durbach (DE)
  • KSETA PhD Workshop 2015
    July 2015, Freudenstadt (DE)
  • KSETA Plenary Workshop
    March 2015, Burbach (DE)
  • Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics (TWEPP)
    September 2014, Aix-en-Prevence (FR)
  • KSETA PhD Workshop 2014
    July 2014, Freudenstadt (DE)
  • CMS Upgrade Week
    April 2014, Karlsruhe (DE)
  • KSETA Plenary Workshop
    February 2014, Bad Herrenalb (DE)
  • 2nd MTCA Workshop for Industry and Research
    December 2013, DESY - Hamburg (DE)
  • KSETA PhD Workshop 2013
    October 2013, Freudenstadt (DE)
  • International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
    September 2013, Porto (PT)
  • 532. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Pixel Detectors
    May 2013, Bad Honnef (DE)

Teaching

  • Praktikum: Elektronik für Physiker
    WS 2014/2015, Prof. Dr. Marc Weber
  • Praktikum: Elektronik für Physiker
    WS 2013/2014, Prof. Dr. Marc Weber
  • KSETA block course: Programmable Hardware
    October 2013, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Diana Göhringer

Reports