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Katerina KATSIKATSOU
University of Athens

kkatsik@phys.uoa.gr

The subject of my Ph. D. studies is the phenomenological and theoretical study of the supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. Apart from the apprehension of the (pure) supersymmetric gauge theories, my studies include a thorough investigation of the supergravity models and the supersymmetric grand unified theories. My work is mainly focused on the searches in the Higgs boson sector and on the supersymmetric cold dark matter. Within this framework, during my M. Sc. studies, I have worked on the stability of the radiative corrections on the masses of the supersymmetric Higgs bosons. Now I am studding several models of supersymmetric GUTs in the context of dark matter.

Victoria KEKELIDZE
JINR, Dubna

vika@sunhe.jinr.ru

Fot my Ph.D. thesis I am working in the area of software developement and data processing at physics experiments. I have taken participation in software developement in C++ for event reconstruction in NEMO-3 experiment (Modane, France) studing double beta-decay. In summer 2000 and winter 2001 I have been working on HERA-B experiment (DESY, Hamburg). HERA-B is a large-aperure high-rate spectormeter built for studes of collisions of 920 GeV protons with the nuclei of target wires positioned in the halo of the HERA proton beam. HERA-B was optimized to measure CP-violation in decays of B mesons into the so-called 'golden decay mode'. I have taken part in developement of C++ vertexing package "GROVER" and alignment package "AliSA" for outer tracker system. At peresnt I am working on ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment). The detector of ALICE is dedicated to study nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. It will investigate the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma is expected. I am involved into activity connected with a tracking for the muon spectrometer of ALICE.

Dmitri KHARTCHENKO
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR, Dubna

dmitry@nusun.jinr.ru

At present I am working on ATLAS, one of the detectors operating at LHC collider at CERN. Our department engage with assembling and testing muon chambers for ATLAS detector. In particular, I deal with high-voltage testing of the MDT tubes. Also I am working on development of the monitoring software and database processing.

Sergey KONONOV
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk

skononov@inp.nsk.su

I am taking part in the KEDR experiment at the e+e- collider VEPP-4M which will operate in the energy region from J/psi to upsilon mesons. Precise measuring mass of resonances, verifying the data on decays of these quarkonia, searching for rare decays and states are to be performed. I'm engaged in aerogel Cherenkov counters development and production for the detector, support of installed part of counters. I have performed analysis of the beam test of our counters to study its pi/K separation efficiency.

Aafke KRAAN
The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

ackraan@nbi.dk

In my PhD work I am involved in both ALEPH, one of the four LEP detectors, and ATLAS, one of the four LHC detectors. Currently I am performing an ALEPH data-analysis on LEP2-data, looking for signals of a light stable gluino, the supersymmetric partner of the gluon. I investigate the production channel via stop decay. A stable gluino, as arises in some SUSY models, will hadronize to form so-called R-hadrons. The most important aspect of this search is the simulation of the Monte-Carlo signal sample, involving simulation of gluino production, their subsequent hadronization, and interaction with the detector. In ATLAS, I will perform a similar search.

Olaf KRASEL
Universität Dortmund

olaf.krasel@cern.ch

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC will use as the innermost part of its tracker a silicon pixel detector. An important demand for this pixel detector is radiation tolerance. It has to be operable up to fluences of 10**15 1-MeV equivalentneutrons. For my Ph.D. thesis I investigate the charge collection in irradiated sensors. Experiments with signalgeneration by laser and time resolved measurement of the resulting current signal (TCT) are performed. Another method is the analysis of signal height in measurements with an alpha source. From both of these measurements I want to extract the trapping times and the field distribution in irradiated sensors.

Uladzimir KRUCHONAK
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna

v_kruch@nusun.jinr.ru

I am working in group of producing muon system of ATLAS detector. Experiment ATLAS will be delivered in CERN on LHC accelerator and will be considered of proton-proton collisions in energy range ~ 10 TeV. Muon system must independently from other systems of detector determine impulse 1 TeV muon which accuracy 10 %. The participation of JINR in ATLAS experiment is necessary to make about 50000 drift tubes for MDT-chambers for muon system of the ATLAS detector. The leak of gas from the detector should not exceed 1.33*10-8 Bar*l/s. For measurement of so small flow of gas the method of mass-spectrometry as the most sensitive is chosen. The process of measurement should be fast (2-3 minutes) and as much as possible automated. My own work consists in creation of the automated gas leak stand exact measurement of gas leak from working volume drift tubes .

Patricia Ilie 07/2002