PhD Research Fellow in Experimental Heavy-Ion Physics (ref 257207)

8 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

University of Oslo

Research Field

Physics

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Norway

Application Deadline

29 Feb 2024 - 23:00 (Europe/Oslo)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

37.5

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The high-energy heavy-ion collisions group from the Department of Physics, University of Oslo, participates in the ALICE experiment, one of the four big experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In 2022 the LHC started the third round of data taking with ultra-relativistic proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (p-Pb) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions (LHC Run 3). The ALICE experiment had its main upgrades installed for the Run 3 and 4 data taking, which includes greatly improved tracking precision, readout speed and software. These upgrades enable ALICE to record about 100 times more Pb-Pb and about 1000 times more pp collision events compared to the previous data taking campaigns. These will allow precision measurements of rare probes such as heavy quarkonia, charm and beauty hadrons down to very low momentum, heavy-flavour tagged jets, photo-nuclear and photon-photon interactions in ultra-peripheral collisions, etc.

The physics aims of our group are the application of these probes for the characterization of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in nuclear collisions at relativistic energies, and the search for gluon saturation at low Bjorken-x, a fundamental phenomenon predicted by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong nuclear force.

The ALICE group at the University of Oslo, together with the other Norwegian heavy-ion physics groups are involved in high impact physics data analysis, interpretation and phenomenology, analysis software development and ALICE detector upgrades. The physics analyses focus mainly on the heavy quarkonia and beauty meson production in Pb-Pb and pp collisions plus the photoproduction of vector mesons in ultra-peripheral and peripheral collisions.

The group has a leading role in the development of analysis software and in simulations for the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) detector upgrade to be installed in ALICE before the LHC Run 4. The group also foresees joining the ALICE3 project which aims at building a completely new detector to replace the current ALICE detector for the LHC Run 5 and 6.

The main PhD topic for the successful candidate is to carry out physics analysis within the above mentioned areas of research using the Run 3 data. It is highly desirable that the candidate also will be involved in the FoCal or ALICE3 projects by contributing to the simulation or reconstruction software development efforts.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/257207/phd-research-fellow-in-experimental-heavy-ion-physics

Requirements

Research Field

Physics

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Department of Physics

Country

Norway

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Where to apply

Website

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/257207/phd-research-fellow-in-ex…

Contact

City

Oslo

Website

https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/index.html

Street

PO box 1072 Blindern

Postal Code

NO-0316

E-Mail

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STATUS: EXPIRED