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Amita RAVAL
DESY, Hamburg University

raval@mail.desy.de

For my Ph.D., I am working on the ZEUS experiment at HERA, an ep collider at DESY. Presently, I am analysing 96-00 data taken at HERA to search for meson resonances (KsKs Final State). Preliminary studies strongly indicate a first observation in ep collisions of the I=0 states in the scalar meson nonets (0^++). There is some controversy over the 0^++ nonet because here the number of scalar states observed seems to exceed the number of states which can be accommodated in the quark model. One of the `extra' states is thought to be a glueball candidate or a mixture between the glueball and the nearby isosinglet states. In this analysis, the Ks candidates are reconstructed by looking for pairs of oppositely charged tracks of pions (in the Central Tracking Detector) which originate from a secondary vertex displaced from the primary vertex by a few centimetres. I plan to calculate the masses, widths, and the cross sections of the observed resonances. Also to improve the statistics, I plan to develop a new trigger dedicated to this search. This builds on my strong experience of the physics triggers because, for my service work, I have been managing the physics filter code for the third level trigger (TLT) for ZEUS. Plus, I am also one of the people responsible for the monitoring of the ZEUS Calorimeter.

Christiane RISLER
MPI Munich

risler@mail.desy.de

I am working at the H1 experiment at HERA. The subject of my Ph.D. thesis is the analysis of strange particle production in deep inelastic ep-scattering at low Q2. I focus on the reconstruction of Lambda-baryons and K0s mesons in DIS events and events expected to be induced by Instantons. Interesting aspects of Lambda-production are the possibilities to measure their longitudinal polarization or a baryon-antibaryon asymmetry. I am also involved in the prarmeterized simulation (our default) of electromagnetic showers in the H1 calorimeter, which gives a fairly good description of the data. Adjusting a few of the shower parameters an improved and now excellent description was achieved.

Simon ROBBINS
Oxford University

simon.r@physics.org

I am in the second year of my D.Phil degree, working on the HARP experiment. This experiment is based on the proton synchrotron (PS), at CERN and is designed to investigate hadron production between 2 and 15 GeV/c with almost complete angular coverage. This data is mainly required for neutrino physics - in order to improve modelling of atmospheric neutrino production (from cosmic rays) and the production of pions in fixed targets for a neutrino factory. So far, I have mainly been involved in writing the reconstruction software and I hope to move in to analysis of the data as the experiment progresses.

Patricia Ilie 07/2002