Particle Physics (energy) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 19 Particle Physics (energy) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Laser-plasma and direct-laser acceleration: high energy particle acceleration with lasers

Lancaster University Cockcroft Institute

Lancaster Physics is leading a UK-wide research programme in laser-plasma acceleration utilizing high-energy particle accelerator and laser facilities at Daresbury National Laboratory. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Laser-plasma acceleration: high energy particle acceleration with lasers

Lancaster University Physics Department

Lancaster Physics is leading a UK-wide research programme in laser-plasma acceleration utilizing high-energy particle accelerator and laser facilities at Daresbury National Laboratory. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The Ghost Collider: developing particle accelerators with no beam transients

Lancaster University Cockcroft Institute

Present and future high-energy electron-positron colliders are limited by two effects. the energy required to accelerate the beams and the electromagnetic beam-beam disruption. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Apsimon

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Controlling beam dynamics in high-power X-ray FELs with novel magnets

University of Liverpool Cockcroft Institute

X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs) are large-scale accelerator facilities generating radiation beams with intensity far exceeding that of any other available source of high-energy photons. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Wolski

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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High power laser plasma acceleration – making accelerators smaller, cheaper, better

University of Liverpool Cockcroft Institute

Applications are invited for a fully funded studentship from Oct 2024 in laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA). Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Corner

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully-funded PhD in Sustainable High Power RF Amplifiers for Muon Colliders

Lancaster University School of Engineering

A student is sought for a PhD study on the development of high efficiency RF amplifiers for the Muon Collider design study at CERN. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing Studies with the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)

University of Liverpool Department of Physics

Neutrinos are the most abundant massive particle in the universe. Since their discovery, neutrinos played an important role in many areas of physics. Read more

Supervisors: Prof CA Andreopoulos, Prof XL Lu

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of sustainable Superconducting RF for UK-XFEL

Lancaster University Cockcroft Institute

A student is sought for a PhD study on the development of thin film coated superconducting RF cavities for the UK X-ray Free Electron Laser (UK-XFEL) design study. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Enhancing Superconducting Properties of SRF Thin Films by Laser Processing

The University of Manchester Cockcroft Institute

Superconducting niobium cavities are the most crucial components in particle accelerators to provide the acceleration to the desired particles via RF energy with low losses. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Xia

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Developing a framework for regulatory conformance of innovative experimental nuclear reactor

University of Liverpool Department of Physics

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are a next-generation nuclear reactor technology outlined by Generation IV International Forum, fulfilling sustainability, economics, safety, and proliferation resistance goals. Read more

Supervisors: Prof BM Merk, Dr J Coleman, Prof A Boston

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Preparation and Characterisation of ‘Green’ Photocathodes for the Generation of High-Brightness Electron Beams

University of Liverpool Department of Physics

The quality of the electron beam in an accelerator is limited largely by that of the electron source. Fourth generation light sources such as the planned UK X-FEL and ultrafast electron diffraction projects require high-brightness electron sources. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Welsch

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

University of Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy

ALICE is one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is a general purpose heavy-ion experiment aimed at studying QCD under extreme conditions of energy density. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Evans

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Searching for exotics signatures (Dark Matter/Extra Dimensions)

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods and plays a leading role internationally in the ATLAS trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Berry

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Particle accelerator simulations for new particle physics experiments

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

Particle colliders are incredibly complex and expensive devices to design, construct, operate and maintain. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Gibson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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FLASH VHEE Radiotherapy Machine System Design

The University of Manchester Cockcroft Institute

A studentship is available from October 2024 on the development of a unique machine to deliver FLASH radiotherapy. To achieve this goal we anticipate strong collaboration with STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory and CERN. Read more

Supervisor: Prof R M. Jones

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 19 Particle Physics (energy) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Particle Physics (energy) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 19 Particle Physics (energy) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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