PhD student impressions

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PhD student impressions

• Zdenko van Kesteren
• RECFA 23-09-2005

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Introduction

• Started Ph.D january 2005,
• working on ATLAS _at_ CERN
• One of the first graduates on
• new bachelor/master particle physics
• (joint NIKHEF, UvA, UU, VU program)

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Water Cherenkov muon detector
4 months project
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CERN summerschool
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Graduation on B-field sensors
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After graduation Ph.D at NIKHEF

• Education never ends...
• Topical lectures 3 days
• Gravitation, Monte Carlo, loop calculations,
• BDN summerschool 2 weeks
• At this very moment Texel summerschool
• Give education
• Supervising undergraduate students

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Research service tasks

• Service tasks
• Cabling MDTchambers at CERN
• Research NIKHEF good environment
• Software
• Muonspectrometer and tracking
• Threshold to make contribution to large
  software framework high
• Physics at ATLAS
• Single top analysis

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Conclusions

• Master program at NIKHEF
• excellent dive into particle physics
• Master and Ph.D at NIKHEF good opportunity to
  work at a large-scale experiment such as ATLAS