Raynette van Tonder

Information

Institute: ETP
Experiment: Belle & Belle II
Room: 9-22 in building 30.23
Phone: 0721/608-43418
Email: Raynette.Tonder#kit.edu
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Bernlochner
Advising postdocs: Dr. Lu Cao, Dr. William Sutcliffe

Master's Thesis

Studies of the W^±W^± scattering process in pp collisions at the once and future ATLAS detector

PhD Topic

A model independent measurement of the CKM matrix element |V_ub| by studying differential distributions of charmeless, semi-leptonic B meson decays with the Belle experiment.

Conferences and Talks

• Measurement of inclusive differential kinematic distributions for |V_ub|
  Talk at DPG Spring Meeting 2019, 25 - 29 March 2019, Aachen
• Inclusive B → X_u ℓ ν at Belle II
  Talk at 10th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, 17 - 21 September 2018, Heidelberg
• Measurement of inclusive |V_ub| and the shape function
  Talk at DPG Spring Meeting 2018, 19 - 23 March 2018, Würzburg

Proceedings

• The impact of an extended Inner Detector tracker on the W^±W^±jj measurement in pp collisions at the High-Luminosity LHC with the upgraded ATLAS detector
  C. Lee, R. van Tonder and S. Yacoob, Proceeding for SAIP2017 (2017)
• Studies of the b-tagged control region for same sign W^±W^± production in proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector
  R. van Tonder, Proceeding for HEPPW2017 (2017)

Schools, Meetings & Workshops

• CERN School of Computing, 1 - 14 October 2018, Tel Aviv
• GridKa School 2018, 27 - 31 August 2018, KIT
• Belle II Starter Kit Workshop, 15 - 17 June 2018, KEK