Meeting on Mu3e detector construction in Wengen
We spent four days in Wengen, Switzerland going over the details of the Mu3e detector and discussing the procedures for producing and integrating the sub-detectors. Safety, powering, cooling, electronics and readout were also among the topics.
Lennart Huth successfully defends his thesis on the MuPix telescope and pixel sensor characterization
Lennart Huth has developed the MuPix beam telescope and used it in a long series of test beams to characterize MuPix sensors. He has successfully defended his thesis at Heidelberg university.
Sebastian Dittmeier successfully defends his thesis on the Mu3e data acquisition system
Sebastian Dittmeier has developed many important parts of the Mu3e data acquisition system, which has allowed him to perform the first successful vertical slice test of the readout system. He has now successfully defended his thesis, which also involves a study of wireless readout systems at 60 GHz, at Heidelberg university.
Collaboration meeting in Liverpool
The Mu3e collaboration met for three days at the University of Liverpool to discuss integration and assembly of the experiment and recent progress for all subdetectors.
Simon Corrodi successfully defends his thesis on the Mu3e fibre detector
Simon Corrodi has made important contributions to all aspects of fibre detector development, ranging from simulation and reconstruction via fibre characterization and mechanical integration to data acquisition and electronics. He has now successfully defended his thesis at ETH Zürich.
Huangshan Chen successfully defends his thesis on the development of the MuTRiG ASIC for the Mu3e timing detecors
Huangshan Chen was instrumental in the development of the MuTRiG ASIC, which performs the time-to-digital conversion for the Mu3e fibre and tile timing detectors. He has now successfully defended his thesis at Heidelberg University.
Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort successfully defends her PhD thesis on the sensitivity of the Mu3e experiment for new physics and pixel frontend firmware.
Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort studied the sensitivity of the Mu3e experiment for the main search channel using an effective field theory approach and also simulated the performance for searches for two-body decays of the muon and electron-positron resonances. In addition she contributed a core piece of the pixel front-end firmware, namely the real-time time sorting of hits.
Meeting on Mu3e detector integration in Wengen
We spent four days in Wengen, Switzerland going over the details of the Mu3e detector integration and discussing the procedures for producing the sub-detectors. Safety, powering, cooling, electronics and readout were also among the topics.
Zachary Hodge successfully defends his PhD thesis on the Mu3e beam line design and monitoring
Zachary Hodge made extensive simulations for the Mu3e muon beam line at PSI, including some upgrade of the muon target E at PSI, which is supposed to improve the muon beam rate significantly. He co-developed a monitoring scheme using a scintillating target and a CCD camera for beam characterization and monitoring.