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

Shefali

Information

Institute: ETP
Office: Building 425, KIT Campus North
Email: shefali.shefali@kit.edu
IceCube Collaboration

PhD thesis topic

Title:Cosmic Ray studies with Scintillation detectors for the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralph Engel
Scientific Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Haungs

Publications

Development and testing of a demonstrator for an Acoustic Module for the IceCube Upgrade
An Acoustic Calibration System for the IceCube Upgrade
Enhancement of the IceCube surface instrumentation by a hybrid radio and scintillation detector array
R&D and production of the scintillation detectors for the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
Status and plans for the instrumentation of the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
IceCube Collaboration publications list

Workshops, Conferences and Schools

The GNN-internal MANTS meeting 2024 (Bochum, Germany)
KSETA Plenary Workshop 2024 (Wildberg, Germany)
DPG Spring meeting 2024 ( Karlsruhe, Germany; Talk)
9th Annual MT meeting 2023 (Karlsruhe, Germany; Poster)
ICRC Satellite workshop 2023 (Chiba, Japan)
38th International Cosmic Ray conference 2023 (Nagoya, Japan; Talk)
KSETA Plenary Workshop 2023 (Durbach, Germany; Talk)
DPG Spring meeting 2023 (Dresden, Germany; Talk)
KSETA PhD workshop (BAd Herrenalb, Germany)
PRISMA+ School 2022: Photon Detection and FPGAs in Particle Detectors 2022 (Mainz, Germany)
The 27th European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS) 2022 (Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Talk)
PhD summer school Neutrinos: “Here, There, Everywhere” 2022 (NBIA, Copenhagen, Denmark)
IceCube Bootcamp: Summer 2022(Madison, USA; Online)
37th International Cosmic Ray conference 2021 (Online; Berlin, Germany)
Online Terascale Summer School 2020 (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
Virtual Reduced Terascale Statistics School 2020 (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
International Cosmic Ray Conference 2019 (ICRC 2019) (Madison, WI, USA)
DPG Spring Meeting 2019 (RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Talk)

Teaching and Supervision

Erasmus Traineeship: Federica Benisi
Characterization of the SiPMs for the scintillation detectors of the Surface Array Enhancement
May 2021- July 2021
Summer Internship: David Marckx
Investigation of the dependence of the uDAQ signal processing on the characteristics of the incident waveform
Aug 2021 - Sept 2021
KSETA Internship program: Anjali Yadav
Investigatory measurements to optimize the test setup for the calibration of the scintillation detectors for the full Surface Array Enhancement
April 2022 - July 2022
Bachelor’s Thesis: Laura Lehmann
Energy calibration of the scintillation detectors for the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement
Dec 2022 – June 2023
Nuclear and Particle Physics Lab course Oct 2022 - Nov 2023

KSETA topical courses

Scientific Writing CJ Fitzsimons (Leadership Sculptor)
Acceleration and transport of galactic cosmic rays Philipp Mertsch (RWTH AAchen)
Multi-Messenger Data Analysis Markus Ahlers (NBI, Copenhagen)
FPGA programming (with hands on sessions) / signal processing-2022 O. Sander et al. (KIT)
Introduction to Parallel Computing on multi- and many-cores architectures Felice Pantaleo (CERN)
Monte Carlo simulations Stefan Gieseke (KIT)
Baryogenesis Prof. Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL)
Neutrino mass phenomenology Werner Rodejohann (MPIK)
Scientific Journalism, 2021 Rolf Krauter (Deutschlandradio)
Observational Cosmology H. Hildebrandt (Uni Bochum)
High Performance Computing at KIT J. Buchmüller, M. Götz, S. Braun (SCC)