Geertje Heuermann

Information

Institute: EKP (CN)
Room: 108, Bld 402
Phone: + 49 (0)721 608 - 24672
Email: geertje.heuermann#kit.edu

PhD Thesis

"Active shielding of a 1-ton cryogenic detector array for Dark Matter search "

Publications

• C. Nones et al. "Axion searches with the EDELWEISS-II experiment", Astropart. Phys.(2013), arXiv: 1307.1488
• V. Kudryavtsev et al."Background studies for the EDELWEISS dark matter experiment", Astropart. Phys (2013), arXiv: 1305.3628
• B. Schmidt et al. "Muon-induced background in the EDELWEISS dark matter search", Astropart. Phys. 44 (2013) 28
• E. Armengaud et al. "Search for low-mass WIMPs with EDELWEISS-II heat-and-ionization detectors", Phys. Rev. D 86, 5, 051701 (2012)

Conferences and Talks (since 2012)

• Spring Workshop on GEANT4 simulations (Oct 28th - Nov 2nd 2013), iThemba Labs, Cape Town
• KSETA Workshop 2013 (Oct 16th - 18th 2013), Freudenstadt:
  "Introduction to GEANT4"
• The International School for AstroParticle Physics (ISAPP) (Jul 27th - Aug 6th 2013), Stockholm:
  "The EURECA Active Shielding Concept"
• Wissenschaftsfestival Karlsruhe "Effekte" (Jun 06th 2013), Karlsruhe:
  "Was ist diese dunkle Materie eigentlich?"
• DPG Spring Meeting (Mar 4th - 8th 2013), Dresden:
  "The EURECA Active Shielding Concept"
• HGF Midterm Evaluation POF-II Programme Astro (Nov 26th - 27th 2012), KIT:
  "Muon-induced Signatures in Dark Matter Search"
• Workshop "Data Analysis and Detector Technologies of the HAP Dark Universe" (Nov 18th - 23rd 2012), Burg Liebenzell:
  "A water Cherenkov muon-veto for EURECA"
• Workshop ATP in Deutschland (Sep 19th - 21st 2012), DESY-Zeuthen:
  "Muon-induced signatures in Dark Matter searches from EDELWEISS to EURECA"
• Summer school on dark matter detectors (Jul 11th - 21st 2012), KICP University of Chicago:
  "Monte Carlo Simulation of μ- induced Background"

Teaching (since 2012)

• SS 2013:Supervision of a DAAD-RISE summer student
  Research project: "Simulation of background sources for the future underground dark matter experiment EURECA"
• WS 2012/2013: Physikalisches Fortgeschrittenen-Praktikum:
  "Elementarteilchen" and "Gamma Koinzidenzspektroskopie"
• SS 2012: Physikalisches Fortgeschrittenen-Praktikum:
  "Elementarteilchen" and "Gamma Koinzidenzspektroskopie"

Committes

• Equal opportunity commissioner (KSETA)
• Representative of doctoral fellows at the KSETA Scientific Board