PhD studentship on frontier detectors and trigger/DAQ for future colliders

The worldwide particle physics community is gearing up for the construction of a new electron-positron collider. This machine will give unprecedented precision for the measurement of crucial Standard Model parameters, particularly the Higgs boson, and have interesting prospects for the discovery of new physics phenomena. The challenges coming from a completely new e+ e- collider call for frontier detectors. The Sussex Collider group is part of a 4-year international EU network (AIDAInnova) and is leading the UK effort in two crucial areas of the R&D for future colliders: the development of a novel concept of calorimeter, which will allow measuring hadronic signals with high resolution; and the development of Trigger and Data Acquisition platforms for the R&D of novel detectors, including the monitoring of signals from different detector prototypes at test beams. 

A funded studentship on the AIDAInnova project is available to work on these two aspects of the R&D for future colliders, under the joint supervision of Prof Fabrizio Salvatore and Prof Iacopo Vivarelli.

The ideal candidate would have some experience in C++ and python programming, and knowledge of particle interaction with matter. The candidate will be ideally positioned to make a large impact in this sector, also through close contact with the other nodes of the network and with CERN- and DESY-based experts.