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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)

Nicoline Hemme

Information:
Institute: Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics (TTP)
Office: 12/19, Building 30.23 (Physikhochhaus), Campus South
Email: nicoline.hemme@kit.edu

Representative of the KSETA Equal Opportunities Efforts

Doctoral Work

Strongly-interacting dark sectors at accelerators and in the early universe
Supervisor: Jun. Prof. Dr. Felix Kahlhoefer
Start of doctoral work: July 2022
The nature of dark matter is among the most important open questions of fundamental physics. An exciting possibility is that dark matter particles are bound states of a whole new sector of strongly interacting particles, similar to the pions in the Standard Model. Such a set-up may give rise to exciting new signatures at accelerator experiments, such as dark showers or displaced vertices. The study of the cosmology of these dark sectors, in particular how the dark pions may obtain a relic abundance compatible with observations, is an essential part of my doctoral work. The work extends to exploring constraints on strongly-interacting dark sectors from the LHC and the complementary sensitivity of proposed beam-dump experiments like SHADOWS.

Publications

Elias Bernreuther, NH, Felix Kahlhoefer, Suchita Kulkarni (2023):
Dark matter relic density in strongly interacting dark sectors with light vector mesons
Elias Bernreuther, Caterina Doglioni, NH, Suchita Kulkarni et al. Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 1132 (2022) :
Theory, phenomenology, and experimental avenues for dark showers: a Snowmass 2021 report

Degrees and Thesis Works

Degree acchieved Thesis supervisor(s) Title of thesis
Master's Degree (M.Sc.)
from Lund University,
Sweden, June 2022 		Prof. Caterina Doglioni (Lund Uni., Uni. Manchester) & Dr. Suchita Kulkarni (Uni. Graz) Studies of Dark Showers for Present and Future Colliders
Bachelor's Degree (B.Sc.)
from Lund University,
Sweden, June 2020 		Asst. Prof. Christopher Plumberg (Seaver College) & Prof. Leif Lönnblad (Lund Uni.) Principal Component Analyses of Final States in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions using PYTHIA/Angantyr

Conferences and Talks

  • Annual Meeting 2024 of the CRC TRR 257 (Karlsruhe, March 2024)
    Title of talk: Strongly interacting dark sectors and dark showers
  • DPG Spring Meeting 2024 (Karlsruhe, March 2024)
    Title ot talk: Signatures of strongly interacting dark sectors
  • Light Dark World 2023 (Karlsruhe, Sep 2023)
    Title of poster: Strongly-interacting Dark Sector Phenomenology
  • Invisibles23 Workshop (Göttingen, Aug/Sep 2023)
    Title of talk/poster: Strongly-interacting Dark Sector Phenomenology
  • Dark Matter 2023: From the Smallest to the Largest Scales (Spain, May/June 2023)
    Title of talk: Cosmology of strongly-interacting dark sectors
  • The German Conference of Women in Physics (Karlsruhe, Nov 2022)
    Title of poster: Dark Matter - Where to look?: Strongly coupled dark sectors at particle colliders
  • COST Advanced School on Physics of Dark Matter and Hidden Sectors (Sweden, Oct 2021)
     Title of talk: Studies of Dark Showers for Present and Future Colliders

Summer Schools

  • ICTP Summer School on Particle Physics (June 19-30 2023)
    The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
  • HASCO Summer School (July 24-Aug 01 2022)
    Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Teaching Activities

  • Introduction to Theoretical Cosmology
    Tutor, Summer semester 2023

KSETA Courses

  • Scientific Writing
    Taught by CJ Fitzsimons (Leadership Sculptor) in Winter semester 2024
  • The Standard Model Effective Field Theory: theory and phenomenological applications
    Taught by Ilaria Bravo (Uni. Bologna) in Winter semester 2024
  • Performing Under Pressure: Lessons for becoming pressure proof for successful women in academia
    Taught by Francesca Carlin in Winter semester 2024
  • Scalable Artificial Intelligence
    Taught by Markus Götz (KIT) in Summer semester 2023
  • Basics of Science Communication
    Taught by Christian Sharun (NaWIK) in Winter semester 2023
  • Modern Machine Learning for Particle Physics
    Taught by Claudius Krause (Uni. Heidelberg) in Winter semester 2023
  • From the trees to the forest: neutrino masses and connections to new physics
    Taught by Michael Schmidt (UNSW, Sydney) in Winter semester 2023