Student’s Point of View
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Student’s Point of View Charilaos Tsarouchas National Technical University of Athens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ath
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Student’s Point of View. Charilaos Tsarouchas National Technical University of Athens. ECFA meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Athens, 10 October 2008. Education. 1school year. 5 years of studies as undergraduate student - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Student’s Point of View
Charilaos Tsarouchas
National Technical University of Athens
ECFA meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Athens, 10 October 2008
Education
5 years of studies as undergraduate student (School of applied mathematics and physics)
2 years of studies as Ms student (Physics and Technological Applications)
1st year (now) of studies as doctoral student (home university NTUAthens)
1schoolyear
• good theoretical background
• opportunities for technical knowledge
deep
researchwaters
+
7 years of studies before PhD
The HEP footsteps
• July of 2005 summer student cern
• September 2005 MDT data analysis
• 2006-2007 CSC/MDT DCS
• 2007-2008 DCS, ATLAS commissioning and shifts
• 2008 - ... B physics studies. Chib channel
CSC: ATLAS muon subdetectorDCS: detector control system
MDT: ATLAS muon subdetector
MDT - BIS commissioning
Geneva, summer of 1991,when www released to particle physics community
…14 summers later in Geneva as cern summer student
• final assembly • noise tests • cosmic tests• cosmic data analysis• subdetector coherency
Work done in bd. 283 cern
MDT-BIS
support:
Detector Control Systems
ATLAS cavern , MDT
support:
ATLAS Endcap small wheel
• DCS Ensures the coherent and safe operation of the subdetectors
• Interaction with many detector people
• Knowledge of the hardware too
Detector Commissioning and Shifts• Sometimes PhD tasks respond like light (!) .. can have a dual nature…
support:
… work and fun in the same time !
Atlas control room 10/9/08 10:24 first circulated beam detection
world in the pulse of LHC
Main PhD worksupport:
Part of the altas b – physics group.
Study of the meson through its decay:
Studies of • momentum distribution• η , φ distributions• reconstructed mass• life time
Common students wanders
• “I search that bug 3 days now, I do not know what else to do …”
• “I will be paid for the next 6 months, but no idea after that …”
• “one year we stay apart , I do not thing it will last any more … ”
• “Sunday morning … , sorry I ll be on shift …”
Below are some common student wanders, heard during coffee time
• “Hey I have my study results for 50 Kev isn’t it great !...”
• “you ‘ll not believe it, I ‘ll present in that conference in Hawaii !..”
• “my algorithm works!!...”
• Regular PhD. student salary: equals to the Identity Element of “+” operation in real numbers group, or simply…
• Scholarships: some state/university scholarships, but very few positions for the application numbers (e.g. NTUA 6 scholarships for 67 PhD students in physics)
• Group budgets Spontaneous group funding for a few lucky students
• European funding e.g. Marie Curie
• position in laboratories e.g. CERN tech./doc. students, DESY, Brookheaven
• part – time job
• PhD in another university abroad (USA, Europe)
Funding
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Last but not Least …
The last 4 bullets
• High Energy Physics is a really exciting field to study, strain your limits
A students’ point of view, conclusion…
• Like all nice things, it is difficult, demanding
• Things more complicated when concern social life, career, fixed post code
• … just follow your heart
