PANDA Collaboration honors PhD: Theory Prize for Dr. Roberto Bruschini
28.10.2024 |
The PANDA Collaboration recently awarded the PANDA Theory PhD Prize for the fourth time. Every two years, this prize honors outstanding doctoral theses by young researchers. This year, Dr. Roberto Bruschini (Ohio State University) has received the award for his doctoral thesis “Unified Study of Spectrum and Properties of Heavy Mesons at Energies below and above Meson-Meson Thresholds”.
The PANDA Theory PhD Prize was handed over at the recent Panda Collaboration meeting at GSI in Darmstadt by the spokesperson of the PANDA Collaboration, Professor Klaus Peters, and the chair of the Theory Advisory Group, Professor Christian Fischer from the University of Giessen, during a festive evening event. Dr. Bruschini used Coupled-Channel Schrödinger Equations in adiabatic and diabatic forms for Charmonium-like Mesons below and above threshold. The diabatic Born-Oppenheimer approximation allows for a unified study of conventional and exotic Charmonium-like mesons, which has a great impact to the PANDA physics program.
The Panda Collaboration awards the Theory PhD Prize to specifically honor students’ contributions related to the Panda project. Candidates for the PhD Prize are nominated by their doctoral advisors. In addition to being directly related to the Panda Experiment, the nominees’ doctoral degrees must have received a rating of “very good” or better. Up to three candidates are shortlisted for the award and can present their dissertations at the Panda Collaboration meeting. The winner is chosen by a committee that is appointed for this task by the Panda Collaboration. (BP)
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