We are always looking for motivated students to join our research team!

Below is a summary of our primary research focus. Please feel free to contact us to discuss potential projects. If you have ideas of your own that fit our research, we’d be happy to explore your proposal.

The LHCb Bonn group is organized into two teams: Analysis & Software and Hardware.

Software & Analysis

Members: Elli, Kai, Piet

In our analysis projects our main focus are exotic hadronic resonances. The LHCb detector provides an excellent laboratory to discover and investigate these states, helping us to deepen our understanding of QCD. From Tetraquarks to Sexaquarks we cover a wide range of analysis topics and methods exploring the nature of such exotic states. This includes dark matter searches, (exotic) hadron spectroscopy and searches for new decay channels of heavy hadrons. We specialize in amplitude analyses and offer opportunities to employ several statistical and machine learning techniques.

With the start of Run 3 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) it is an excellent time to join our group and 

Hardware

Members: Klaas, Hannah, Henry, Niclas

WIP

Outreach

Our group is developing an LHCb Masterclass, with the purpose of bringing hadron physics into schools. At the end of the one day workshop pupils have the opportunity to analyze real LHCb data to find new particles. We want to spark interest in pupils, highlighting key concepts of data analysis in particle physics as well as the collaborative aspects of working in research. We are always looking for motivated students to help us, especially those pursuing a degree in teaching.

The finished projects are linked on Confluence