Thesis projects

Thesis projects

It is possible to write a thesis in our fields of research. Interested students should contact Priv. Doz. Dr. Michael Buballa.

Completed theses

Here you can find our completed habilitation, Ph.D., master, diploma, and bachelor theses.

Habilitation theses:

• NJL-model analysis of quark matter at large density
  Michael Buballa, Habilitation Thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2004

Ph.D. theses:

• From zero-dimensional theories to inhomogeneous phases with the functional renormalization group
  Martin Jakob Steil, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, May 2024
• Goldstone Bosons in a Crystalline Chiral Phase
  Marco Schramm, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, June 2017
• Inhomogeneous chiral symmetry breaking in isospin-asymmetric strong-interaction matter
  Daniel Nowakowski, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2016
• Two-Color Lattice QCD with Staggered Quarks
  David Scheffler, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, Juli 2015
• Phase diagram of two-color QCD in a Dyson-Schwinger approach
  Pascal Büscher, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2014
• QCD at finite density with Dyson-Schwinger equations
  Daniel Müller, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, May 2013
• Inhomogeneous chiral symmetry breaking phases
  Stefano Carignano, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, October 2012
• Transport coefficients of strongly interacting matter
  Klaus Heckmann, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, May 2011
• Goldstone Boson Condensation and Effects of the Axial Anomaly in Color Superconductivity
  Hannes Basler, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2011
• Color Superconductivity: Phase Diagrams and Goldstone Bosons in the Color-Flavor Locked Phase
  Verena Kleinhaus, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2009
• The Chiral and Deconfinement Phase Transitions in Strongly Interacting Matter
  Mathias Wagner, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2009
• Hyperons in Dense Matter
  Haris Djapo, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2009
• Color-superconductivity from a Dyson-Schwinger perspective
  Dominik Nickel, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, June 2007
• ππ-Korrelationen in heißer und dichter Materie
  Carsten Isselhorst, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, July 2006
• The High-Temperature Phase of Yang-Mills Theory in Landau Gauge
  Axel Maas, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2004
• Medium modifications of antikaons in dense matter
  Thomas Roth, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, July 2004
• Renormierungsgruppen-Flussgleichungen und der chirale Phasenübergang
  Oliver Bohr, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, July 2001
• Vektormesonen in dichter und heißer Materie
  Michael Urban, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, May 2001
• Investigation of meson loop effects in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
  Micaela Oertel, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2000
• Die Selbstenergie des omega-Mesons
  Mirko Wachs, Thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2000
• Skyrmiondynamics and the nucleon-nucleon interaction
  Thomas Waindzoch, Thesis, Univ. Bonn, November 1996

Master theses:

• Investigations of the thermodynamic potential at inhomogeneous phases in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
  Carsten Wandschura, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2020
• Inhomogeneous phases in effective models by stability analysis
  Lennart Kurth, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2020
• t-channel dilepton production and anisotropy in pion nucleon collisions
  Deniz Nitt, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2018
• Inhomogeneous phases in the Three-Flavor Quark-Meson Model
  Steven Vereeken, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2018
• Structure of slowly rotating magnetized neutron stars in a perturbative approach
  Martin Steil, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, July 2017
• Dyson-Schwinger Approach to the Taylor Coefficients of the Quark Pressure
  Philipp Isserstedt, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2017
• Expectation values in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
  Tobias Schulz, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2017
• Gap equations at inhomogeneous phases in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
  Eduard Alert, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2016
• Baryon modelling in a two-flavour Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
  Dominic Kraatz, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2016
• Mesonic Excitations in an Inhomogeneous Phase of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
  Jamil Hirsch, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2013
• Inhomogeneous Phases in the Vector Interaction Extended Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
  Marco Schramm, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2013
• Pion-Pion Scattering and Shear Viscosity in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model
  Sven Möller, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2012
• Inhomogeneous phases and color superconductivity in the NJL model
  Daniel Nowakowski, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, Februar 2012
• Fluctuation around the critical point in the PNJL model
  Pascal Büscher, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt and Kyoto University, August 2010
• The PNJL model at imaginary chemical potential
  David Scheffler, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2010
• Der Quarkpropagator in selbstkonsistenter 1/N_c Entwicklung im NJL Modell
  Daniel Müller, Master thesis, TU Darmstadt, August 2009

Diploma theses:

• Die Scherviskosität im Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-Modell
  Klaus Heckmann, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2007
• Pseudoskalare Kondensate in farbsupraleitenden Phasen
  Hannes Basler, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2007
• The quark propagator in the colour-spin locked phase
  Florian Marhauser, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, August 2006
• Struktur schnell rotierender Neutronensterne
  Andreas Bauswein, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2006
• The ghost-gluon vertex in Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory in four and three dimensions
  Wolfgang Schleifenbaum, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2004
• Farbsupraleitung in Neutronen- und Protoneutronensternen
  Verena Werth, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2004
• Anwendung der V-low k Renormierungsgruppen-Methode auf Hyperon-Nukleon-Systeme
  Mathias Wagner, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2004
• Neutrino mean free paths in proto-neutron stars
  Haris Djapo, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt and University of Sarajevo, January 2004
• Chirale Extrapolation mit dem 1/Nc korrigierten NJL-Modell
  Dominik Nickel, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, October 2003
• Das QCD-Phasendiagramm bei endlicher Isospindichte
  Martin Frank, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, July 2003
• Zustandsgleichung dichter Quarkmaterie
  Frederik Neumann, Dipoma thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2003
• Neutrino-Transport in Proto-Neutronen-Sternen
  Nicole Radde, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, June 2002
• Selbstenergiekorrekturen im Rahmen der RPA
  Alexander Mai, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2001
• Modifikation des sigma-Mesons in dichter Materie
  Carsten Isselhorst, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2001
• Die Reaktion Pi N -> Rho N und der Pi N-Formfaktor
  Thomas Roth, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, August 1999
• Phi-Meson-Propagation in kalter Kernmaterie
  Frank Mette, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 1999
• Nichtperturbative Behandlung des linearen SU(3)-Sigma-Modells
  Oliver Bohr, Diploma thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 1997
• Erweiterung der Random Phase Approximation am Beispiel des Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-Modells
  Micaela Oertel, Diploma thesis, TH Darmstadt, September 1997
• Impulsabhängigkeit des Rho-Meson-Propagators in kalter Kernmaterie
  Michael Urban, Diploma thesis, TH Darmstadt, September 1997

Bachelor theses:

• Regulatorabhängigkeit des Phasenübergangs im NJL-Modell in 3+1 Dimensionen
  Patrick Falk, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2021
• Phase Transitions with imaginary chemical potential in the PNJL model
  Constantin Sporleder, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, March 2021
• Ginzburg-Landau analysis of the NJL-model with finite isospin chemical potential
  Dominik Erb, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2020
• Inhomogene Phasengrenze des NJL/GN-Modells in 2+1 Dimensionen im chiralen Limes
  Christian Niehof, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2019
• Phasengrenzen farbsupraleitender und inhomogener Phasen im NJL-Modell
  Lukas Seifert, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2019
• Taylor series expansion of the Ginzburg-Landau coefficients in the NJL model
  Robin Beck, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, August 2019
• Tidal Love Number and the I-Love-Relations of Second Family Compact Stars
  Daniel Henrik Nevermann, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, March 2019
• Mesonen im Drei-Flavor-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-Modell
  Michel Stillger, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2018
• Thermodynamics of the NJL model at finite isospin chemical potential
  Lennart Kurth, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2017
• Characteristics of "third family" compact stars
  Matthias Seubert, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2017
• Modellierung des Confinements im Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Modell via Infrarot-Cutoff
  Julius Wons, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, August 2015
• Chiral symmetry breaking phases at high chemical potential in the NJL model
  Steven Vereeken, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, April 2015
• The dependence of the quark-meson model phase diagram on parameter fixing
  Wael Elkamhawy, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2014
• Phasenübergänge im PNJL-Modell bei imaginärem chemischen Potential
  Tobias Schulz, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, October 2014
• Polarisation der Hintergrundstrahlung durch Gravitationswellen
  Giovanni Biondo, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2014
• Untersuchungen zu Neutronensternen mit einfach parametrisierten Zustandsgleichungen
  Maximilian Witt, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, October 2014
• Hadronen-Quark-Übergang und massive Hybridsterne
  Martin Steil, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2014
• Das Drei-Flavour Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Modell
  Dominic Kraatz, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2013
• Vektorwechselwirkungen im Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-Modell
  Eduard Alert, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, October 2013
• Taylor coefficients of the thermodynamic potential to sixth order in the vector interaction extended NJL model
  Stephen Frieß, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2013
• The p-T-phase diagram of the NJL model at real and imaginary chemical potential
  Kilian Keilholz, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2013
• Mass Dependency of the Dressed Polyakov Loop in the NJL Model
  Stephan Wezorke, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2012
• Pion-Pion Streuung im Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Modell
  Stefan Finkbeiner, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2011
• Die Schwinger-Funktion im nichtlokalen NJL-Modell
  Maximilian Hils, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2011
• The Schwinger function in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
  Bardiya Bahrampour, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, February 2011
• The NJL model and the dressed Polyakov Loop
  Alexander Knetsch, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2011
• Study of Inhomogeneous Phases in the Walecka Model
  Marco Schramm, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, January 2011
• Quarksterne bei endlicher Temperatur und Gravitationswellenemission von kompakten Objekten
  Fabia Schindler, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, September 2010
• Struktur rotierender Neutronensterne
  Johanna Daub, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, June 2009
• NJL model study of the QCD phase diagram using the Taylor series expansion technique
  David Scheffler, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2007
• Hadronic Mass Spectrum and Thermodynamics in the MIT Bag Model
  Jan Lücker, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, November 2007
• Untersuchung des Sigma Mesons im NJL Modell am kritischen Punkt des QCD Phasendiagramms
  Daniel Müller, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, October 2007
• Bag-model studies of strange and hybrid stars
  Pascal Büscher, Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt, December 2006