Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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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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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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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Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation using top quark events in the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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 as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof V Boisvert

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

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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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Searching for Dark Matter with the Lux-Zeplin Detector

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway is offering a PhD opportunity on the LZ experiment for direct detection of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is one of the most fundamental open questions in physics, and the LZ experiment is at the forefront of technology designed to pursue this question. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Kaboth

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

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Higgs boson production measurement during the LHC Run 3 with the ATLAS detector

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 as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Teixeira-Dias

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

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Development of novel statistical methods and application to searches for New Physics using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group has extensive expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods, as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Cowan

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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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 ADMX and the Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector Collaboration

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

This Ph.D. project involves searches for hidden sector dark matter, including QCD axions and axion like particles (ALPs). Our group at Sheffield leads the 'Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector' collaboration, and collaborates with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) collaboration in the USA. Read more

Supervisor: Prof E Daw

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

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Preparing for Deep-Inelastic Scattering at the Electron Ion Collider

University of Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy

The Birmingham Particle and Nuclear Physics groups are working with international collaborators in the ePIC collaboration towards a detector for the Electron Ion Collider which is expected to start operation at the Brookhaven Laboratory in the USA around 2030. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Newman

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

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Physics with intact protons detected way downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

University of Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy

There are wide-ranging PhD opportunities with the Birmingham ATLAS group, including analysis of Higgs, top and electroweak physics, construction of a state-of-the art upgraded tracking detector and operation and development of trigger electronics. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Newman

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

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We have 13 Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 13 Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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

Neutrino Oscillation Study with DUNE

Dark Matter Search with the LZ Experiment

Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation using top quark events in the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Searching for exotics signatures (Dark Matter/Extra Dimensions)

Searching for Dark Matter with the Lux-Zeplin Detector

Higgs boson production measurement during the LHC Run 3 with the ATLAS detector

Development of novel statistical methods and application to searches for New Physics using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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

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

Dark Matter Search with ADMX and the Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector Collaboration

Preparing for Deep-Inelastic Scattering at the Electron Ion Collider

Physics with intact protons detected way downstream of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

We have 13 Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 13 Particle Physics (operation) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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