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Dr Andrew Chisholm Applications accepted all year round Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Birmingham United Kingdom Computational Physics Experimental Physics Particle Physics

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

About the Project

This PhD project involves searching for rare decay modes of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. The Birmingham ATLAS group played a role in the discovery of the Higgs boson and have since been involved in several measurements of its properties and searches for its rare decays.

This studentship will use the Run 2 and Run 3 datasets, recorded in 2015-2018 and 2022-2025, to search for Higgs boson decays to charm quarks, motivated by the possibility of anomalous decay rates associated with potential new physical phenomena. The project also involves contributing to the group's technical responsibilities for the maintenance and development of the ATLAS experiment, including upgrades to the detector or the trigger system.

Some travel to CERN will be necessary, with the possibility of an extended stay at CERN during the studentship.

For further information about the project, please get in touch. More general information is available at:

http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/index.php?page=exp/phdentry/index

Applications must be submitted using the link above.

Funding Notes

Funding is available for UK/Irish students, or EU students with (pre-)settled status in the UK.

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