Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Prof N Spooner
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
In association with the giant 10 kton DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) liquid argon neutrino detector being built at Homestake there will need to be a smaller Near Detector at Fermilab.
Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Dr K Lohwasser
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
A position is open for an enthusiastic PhD student to conduct research at the energy frontier at the ATLAS experiment. The main topic is to investigate further the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking and to search for new physics phenomena using diboson measurements.
Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Dr T Vickey
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
It’s possible that the 125 GeV Higgs boson discovered by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments is only one of several neutrally-charged Higgs bosons predicted by theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
Bacterial cell walls are examples of self-assembled composite structures that are formed out of equilibrium. In recent times the text book view of bacterial cell wall has been modified as a result of high resolution imaging studies[1, 2].
The number of elementary gates in a quantum computation determines the runtime of the quantum computer. It is clearly advantageous to have faster computations that use fewer gates and "circuit compilation" is the art of optimizing and automating this process.
Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Prof N Spooner
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
The Sheffield group has pioneered the search for dark matter using Sodium Iodide crystals and is now participating in the search for a galactic particle dark matter signals using the so-called annual modulation signal as part of the new COSINE-100 experiment on South Korea.
Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Dr V Kudryavtsev
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
Cosmic-ray muons are known to be useful in applications beyond particle astrophysics. They have helped with mapping structure of volcanoes and with finding voids in various geological structures.
Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Prof N Spooner
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
Sheffield is a key player in the world-leading dark matter experiment CYGNUS that is seeking a unique directional signal for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the favoured candidate to explain the missing dark matter of the Universe.
Research Group:
Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics
Dr V Kudryavtsev
Application Deadline:
31 March 2019
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a project to build and operate a high-sensitivity dark matter experiment in the deep mine at SURF (South Dakota, USA) able to probe most of the WIMP parameter space region free from neutrino background.