Bachelor theses HEP department
Bachelor theses that have been written at the HEP department over the past years. If your thesis should be on this list, please contact Gertie Verberk/Ardi Groenen (hep@ru.nl)
Jasper Stokmans
Monte Carlo simulations of dually-weighted maps (pdf, 2,4 MB)
Supervisor: dr. Timothy Budd
Second reader: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker
July 2023
Femke de Wit
Implementation of LGAD gain reduction into (pdf, 8,1 MB)
the Allpix Squared framework (pdf, 8,1 MB)
Supervisor: dr. Frank Filthaut
Second reader: dr. Marcos Fernandez Garcia
July 2023
Dion Bremer
A cluster algorithm for simulating 2D Dynamical Triangulations (pdf, 1 MB)
Supervisor: dr. Timothy Budd
Second reader: dr. Harm Schoorlemmer
March 2023
Colin Saba
New Physics or Awkward Reflection (pdf, 4,8 MB)
Supervisor: dr. Harm Schoorlemmer
Second reader: dr. Susanne Westhoff
February 2023
Rutger Berns
Meanders as a toy model of two-dimensional Quantum Gravity (pdf, 18 MB)
Supervisor: dr. Timothy Budd
Second reader: dr. Sascha Caron
August 2022
Bram Ruiter
Determination of characteristics of the GRAND antenna setup (pdf, 4,6 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Charles Timmermans
August 2022
Wicher van Bree
Analysis of the peak in the 1 lepton 1 tau same-sign events at √ s = 13 TeV (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Nicolo de Groot
July 2022
Anna van Asselt
Simulating Random Triangulations (pdf, 1,7 MB)
Supervisor: dr. Timothy Budd
Second reader: dr. Frank Filthaut
July 2022
Simon Peek
Graphene as a particle detector (pdf, 3,9 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Nicolo de Groot
Second reader: Prof. dr. U. Zeitler
July 2022
Paul Veen
Higgs Boson Reconstruction Studies (pdf, 1,6 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Frank Filthaut
Second reader: Dr. Harm Schoorlemmer
July 2022
Jelle Staals
Modelling the muon anomalous magnetic moment with non-unified sfermion masses (pdf, 3,1 MB)
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker
Second reader: Jochem Kip MSc
June 2022
Pjotr Koster
Universality classes of 2D hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds (pdf, 2,1 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Budd
Second reader: Dr. Walter van Suijlekom
February 2022
Berend Schneider
Making waves in cosmology (pdf, 259 kB)
Supervisor: Dr. Béatrice Bonga
November 2021
Caroline Bauer
The phase transition of spin models coupled to dynamical triangulations (pdf, 4,6 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Budd
August 2021
Bob Truijen
Colliding Muons at the Multi-TeV Energy Frontier (pdf, 3,6 MB)
Supervisors: Dr. Frank Filthaut and Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
August 2021
Jimmy Raijmann
Gravitational waves emitted in an EMRI (pdf, 499 kB)
Supervisor: Dr. Béatrice Bonga
August 2021
Lotta van Broekhoven
The Role of Pions in Air Shower Simulations (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Harm Schoorlemmer
Second reader: Prof. dr. Charles Timmermans
July 2021
Wouter Morren
Mass Clumping Effects on a Cosmological Model (pdf, 489 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker and David Venhoek
Second reader: Prof. Andrew Levan
July 2021
Thomas Vissers
A Study of Dark Energy Driven MOND (pdf, 785 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker
June 2021
Jan Groenendijk
Tree bijections in Two-Dimensional Quantum Gravity (pdf, 1,9 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Budd
June 2021
Bart Steeman
Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter (pdf, 4,2 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker
14 April 2021
Koen Thijssen
Voronoi diagrams in two-dimensional quantum gravity
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Budd
January 2021
Bart Peters
Closed photon orbits around multiple black holes (pdf, 1,7 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Béatrice Bonga
January 2021
Robin Rietman
Identifying Glashow Resonance Candidates Using a Monte Carlo Simulation of Cosmogenic Neutrinos (pdf, 2,1 MB)
Supervisor: Ronald Kleiss
Second reader: Charles Timmermans
December 2020
Mila Keijer
Effectiveness of renormalisation in zero-dimensional ϕ³ + ϕ⁴ theory (pdf, 607 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ronald Kleiss
September 2020
Jikke Tacken
Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (pdf, 3,7 MB)
Supervisor: Charles Timmermans
July 2020
Mariska Rood
Shining light on black holes and black hole mimickers (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Béatrice Bonga
July 2020
Gido Verheijen
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2020
Eric Teunis de Boone
SDwarf galaxies j-factor
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2020
Björk Johannes
An analysis of the energy reconstruction of Michel electrons at ProtoDUNE (pdf, 2,2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Frank Filthaut
2019
Henk Brans
Inkijkje in GRANDProto (pdf, 736 kB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
2019
Ilija Sibin Milutin
Effectiveness of renormalisation in zero-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (pdf, 684 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2019
Finn ten Hove
What's in the box? A quantum or classical particle? (pdf, 1 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
28 June 2019
Giliam van Gurp
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter (pdf, 7,1 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker
26 February 2019
Harm Schmitz
Fractal properties of a 3-dimensional toy model of quantum gravity
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Budd
April 2019
Bren Schaap
Honors program, Neutrino mixing
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2019
Inge van Rens
simulations with GANs
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2019
Joost Remie
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2019
Tom de Wilt
Dark matter neutrinos (pdf, 2,6 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Wim Beenakker
11 January 2018
Ludo van Alst
The geometry of infinite causal dynamical triangulations in two dimensions (pdf, 7,2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Budd
2018
Dirk van Buul
How Effective Is Renormalization (pdf, 230 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ronald Kleiss
2018
Marco Nelissen
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2018
Wieske de Swart
GANs, data science and HEP
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2018
Jasper van der Kolk
Machine Learning in dedicated Supersymmetric Dark Matter searches at the LHC (pdf, 7,9 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beekveld and Melissa van Beekveld (MsC)
August 2017
Koen van de Brandt
Lepton non-universality at the LHC (pdf, 7,9 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nicolo de Groot
August 2017
Thijs Miedema
using multivariate analysis to improve boosted Higgs to b-bar b mass resolution (pdf, 2,7 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Frank Filthaut
July 2017
Jonas Würzinger
A Dark Matter Simulation of the Galactic Centre Photon Excess (pdf, 1,6 MB)
in the pMSSM and an Estimation of the Uncertainties (pdf, 1,6 MB)
Supervisors: Dr. Sascha Caron and Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
September 2016
Joep Leenaarts
Squark verval naar neutralino 1 onder uitzending van W, Z of H bosonen
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
May 2016
Nikolas Morshuis
MSSM Dark Matter
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
2016
Renz Bakx
Het experimenteel bepalen van een massalimiet voor neutralino's (pdf, 612 kB)
Supervisor: Dr. Sascha Caron
July 2015
Jeroen Kersten
Beacon-analysis (pdf, 9,4 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
August 2012
Alexander van Ratingen
Optimal signal time for the directional reconstruction of Cosmic Rays using radio detection at the Pierre Auger Observatory (pdf, 491 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. S. de Jong
August 2012
Marie Lanfermann
Determination of ultra high-energy cosmic ray composition using surface detector parameters (pdf, 1,7 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
July 2012
Tijs Karskens
Inuence of signal uctuations on the determination of the core position for the Auger infill array (pdf, 574 kB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
May 2012
Kimmeley van Norel
Is the shape of the air shower front useful for researching the nature of cosmic rays? (pdf, 2,2 MB) (PDF (pdf, 2,3 MB))
June 2012
Katharina Holland
The influence of noise on radio signals from cosmic rays
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
Juli 2010
Antje Fitzner
Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
July 2008
Jeroen Broekhuizen
Atlantis 3D
March 2006
Herman Awater
Bepaling van de energie van kosmische deeltjes uit deeltjeslawines in de atmosfeer (pdf, 2,7 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
May 2005
Jeroen Potjens
Kosmische straling (opbouw meetstations en data-analyse)
January 2004
M. van den Akker (experimental)
Search for TeV Gamma-Rays in Gamma-Ray Bursts with the L3+Cosmics detector (pdf, 2,2 MB)
February 2003
R. Hijmering
HEN-452 AF-9
Februari 2003
Susana Barros
Air shower simulations for NAHSA (pdf, 1 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Timmermans
December 2002
Yorick Busser
A more analytic approach to Bell's theorem_Yorick Busser (pdf, 2,1 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
August 2017
Sjoerd Ypma
the first law of Newton_Sjoerd Ypma (pdf, 902 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2016
Lando Bosma
Investigating f(R)-gravity on hyperbolic backgrounds (pdf, 2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Frank Saueressig
July 2017
Daan Janssen
Combinatorial Considerations on a Two-Dimensional Toy Model for Quantum Gravity (pdf, 1,3 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Renate Loll
September 2016
Arthur Vereijken
Functional Renormalization Group for scalar field theories (pdf, 666 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Prof. Dr. Renate Loll and Daniel Becker
November 2017
Derryk Schieck
Finding a minimum in a not so flat universe (pdf, 779 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
May 2017
Jochem Kip
The search for dark matter with AMS-02 antiproton (pdf, 1,7 MB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Sascha Caron
June 2017
Camiel Pieterse
Galaxy Rotation Curves of a Galactic Mass Distribution (pdf, 2,6 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
2017
Sjors Heefer
Deforming the su(1,1) Phase Space Structure of Effective Loop Quantum (pdf, 1,3 MB) Cosmology (pdf, 1,3 MB)
Supervisor: Mercedes Martın-Benito
December 2015
Wouter Houthoff
Modeling the large scale physics of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (pdf, 1,8 MB)
Supervisors: Joshua Cooperman and Prof. Dr. Renate Loll
August 2015
Fleur Versteegen
The Dynamical Casimir Effect (pdf, 489 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
June 2017
Dennis Obster
Generalized coherent states in two dimensions (pdf, 785 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
December 2014
Ruud Peeters
How friendly is the Higgs boson? (pdf, 902 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
Marrit Schutten
Matter induced RG flows in Horava-Lifshitz gravity (pdf, 1,2 MB)
Supervisor: Dr. Frank Saueressig
July 2014
Chris Ripken
Coordinate systems in De Sitter spacetime (pdf, 1 MB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2013
René Beltman
The Electroweak Theory From A Noncommutative Spectral Triple (pdf, 336 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Thijs van den Broek
September 2013
Melissa van Beekveld
De zoektocht naar supersymmetrie (pdf, 887 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Sascha Caron
July 2013
Jorn Biemans
The High Energy Behaviour of the Higgs Potential (pdf, 350 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
July 2013
Giel van Bergen
Counting tensor structures (pdf, 217 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
August 2012
Leon Groenewegen
Describing bosonic superfluids with particle conservation (pdf, 729 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
October 2012
Rob Verheyen
Reduction of two-loop Feynman integrals (pdf, 401 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2012
Tim Steenvoorden
De Feynman padintegraal aan de hand van klassieke reflecties (pdf, 396 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
August 2012
Lasse Robroek
Electrodynamics from a real-linear spectral triple (pdf, 391 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Thijs van den Broek
August 2012
Jelmer van Amen
Het Tachyonische neutrino
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
August 2012
Gillian Lustermans
Tachyonic neutrinos (pdf, 291 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2011
Martijn Jongen
Neutrino-oscillatie en het Mößbauer neutrino experiment (pdf, 722 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
August 2011
Susanne Lepoeter
De eerste orde correctie op de botsingsdoorsnede van het proces qqbar→g̃g̃ (pdf, 734 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Irene Niessen
August 2011
Tim Janssen
Gluinoproductie in een deeltjesversneller (pdf, 559 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Irene Niessen
August 2011
Tom van Daal
Squark-Gluino Production (pdf, 1,1 MB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Irene Niessen
August 2012
Jorrit van den Boogaard
Colour Structures in Supersymmetric QCD
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
August 2010
Jins de Jong
A feasability study of limitations on the creation of microscopic black holes at the LHC using the hydrogen atom (pdf, 296 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Irene Niessen
July 2011
Geert Gordebeke
Elementaire Deeltjes en Groepentheorie (pdf, 660 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2009
Frank Hemmes
Sleeping Beauty: Exploring the long quiescent period of 1H 1905+000 (pdf, 352 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Gijs Nelemans (astrophysics)
May 2009
Michael Wiechers
A Classical Particle in a Quantum Box
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2009
Pim van Oirschot
Fysische argumenten voor het ijkprincipe (pdf, 158 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker
Jonas Sweep
The `vanishing' of SXT 1H 1905+000 explained from within (pdf, 526 kB)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker and Gijs Nelemans (astrophysics)
August 2008
Mark Netjes
Particles and Sources (pdf, 234 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Kleiss
July 2008
Matthias Sars
Het Casimir Effect en het Fotino (pdf, 356 kB)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Beenakker