Particle Physics (international students) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 11 Particle Physics (international students) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Neutrino Oscillation Study with DUNE

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

DUNE is a large international project to design, construct and operate a multi-kiloton scale liquid argon detector for neutrino physics, neutrino astrophysics and a search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Read more

Supervisors: Prof V Kudryavtsev, Dr R S Jones

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

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A Hybrid Plasma Accelerator for Therapeutic Electron Beams

The University of Manchester Cockcroft Institute

Would you like to join us at the University of Manchester to change the future of particle accelerators?. Using the available studentship, you will explore combining mature electron production technology with new plasma-based acceleration. Read more

Supervisor: Dr O Apsimon

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

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Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and other Beyond the Standard Model phenomena with SBND

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

The SBND (Short-Baseline Near Detector) experiment is part of the multi-detector Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) programme located along the Booster Neutrino Beamline at Fermilab, USA. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R S Jones, Prof V Kudryavtsev

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

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Dark Matter Search with the LZ Experiment

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a high-sensitivity dark matter experiment based on dual-phase xenon technology currently operating in the deep underground laboratory at SURF (South Dakota, USA). Read more

Supervisors: Prof D R Tovey, Prof V Kudryavtsev

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

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Cosmic-Ray Muons in Different Applications

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

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. Read more

Supervisor: Prof V Kudryavtsev

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

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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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Understanding and Controlling Beam Losses in High-Power X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

University of Liverpool Cockcroft Institute

Light sources based on electron accelerators have long been of crucial importance for scientific and engineering research in fields ranging from medicine and life sciences to the properties and structure of materials. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Wolski

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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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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Laser-driven ultrafast electron diffraction

Lancaster University Physics Department

Lancaster Physics department and partners in the Cockcroft Institute are world leading in the use of femtosecond lasers and non-linear optics for manipulating electron beams. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Jamison

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

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We have 11 Particle Physics (international students) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Particle Physics (international students) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 11 Particle Physics (international students) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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