CERN Accelerating science

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2016 are:

• Miguel Arratia (University of Cambridge, UK) - Studies of radiation damage in silicon sensors and a measurement of the inelastic proton–proton cross-section at 13 TeV
• Kurt Brendlinger (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Physics with Electrons in the ATLAS Detector
• Lene Bryngemark (Lund University, Sweden) - Search for new phenomena in dijet angular distributions at√s = 8 and 13 TeV
• Joana Machado Miguéns (Lisboa University, Portugal) - Observation and measurement of the Higgs boson in the WW decay channel with ATLAS at the LHC
• Benjamin Philip Nachman (Stanford University, USA) - Investigating the quantum properties of jets and the search for a supersymmetric top quark partner with the ATLAS detector
• Matthias Saimpert (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - Mesure de la section efficace de production de paires de photons isolés dans l'expérience ATLAS au LHC et étude des couplages à quatre photons

See the News Article on the 2016 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2017 are:

• Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef, Netherlands) - Search for scalar top quarks decaying into scalar tau leptons with ATLAS at √s = 8 TeV and Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector in Run-2
• Johanna Gramling (Université de Genève, Switzerland) - Search for Dark Matter in Missing-Energy Final States with an Energetic Jet or Top Quarks with the ATLAS Detector
• Oleh Kivernyk (CEA/Irfu/SPP, Université Paris-Saclay, France) - Measurement of the W-boson mass with the ATLAS detector
• Philip Sommer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) - A Measurement of W Boson Pair Production in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment​
• Markus Zinser (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany) - Search for new heavy charged bosons and measurement of high-mass Drell-Yan production in proton-proton collisions​

See the News Article on the 2017 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2018 are:

• Nedaa Alexandra Asbah (DESY Hamburg) - Search for the Production of a Standard Model Higgs Boson in Association with Top-Quarks and Decaying into a Pair of Bottom-Quarks with 13 TeV ATLAS Data
• Andrew Stuart Bell (University of London) - b-Tagging and Evidence for the Standard Model H to bb Decay with the ATLAS Experiment
• Rafal Bielski (University of Manchester) - Top Quark Pair Production Measurements in the Single Lepton Channel using the ATLAS Detector
• Nicolas Köhler (MPI München) - Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment
• Stefano Manzoni (University of Milan & INFN; University Pierre et Marie Curie & LPNHE-Paris) - Physics with Photons with the ATLAS Run 2 Data: Calibration and Identification, Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass and Search for Supersymmetry in the Di-Photon Final State
• Anne-Luise Poley (DESY Zeuthen) - Studies of Adhesives and Metal Contacts on Silicon Strip Sensors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker

See the News Article on the 2018 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2019 are:

• Daniel Joseph Antrim (University of California, Irvine): Sweet Little Nothings; or, Searching for a Pair of Stops, a Pair of Higgs Bosons, and a Pair of New Small Wheels for the Upgrade of the Forward Muon System of the ATLAS Detector at CERN
• Karri Folan Di Petrillo (Harvard University): Search for long-lived, massive particles in events with a displaced vertex and a displaced muon using 13 TeV pp-collisions with the ATLAS detector
• Stephen Burns Menary (University of Manchester): Higgs cross section measurements at 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
• Khilesh Pradip Mistry (University of Pennsylvania): Seeing the Light (Higgs): Searches and Measurements of Higgs Boson Decays to Photons
• Elodie Deborah Resseguie (University of Pennsylvania): Electroweak Physics at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Detector: Standard Model Measurement, Supersymmetry Searches, Excesses, and Upgrade Electronics
• Ahmed Tarek Abouelfadl Mohamed (Paris-Diderot University): Measurement of Higgs boson production cross sections in the diphoton channel with the full ATLAS Run-2 data and constraints on anomalous Higgs boson interactions

See the News Article on the 2019 Awards.