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  The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC


   School of Physics and Astronomy

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  Prof David Evans  Applications accepted all year round  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

About the Project

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. In particular, it is designed to study a state of matter consisting of deconfined quarks and gluons known as a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Such a state of matter is thought to have existed up to about ten microseconds after the Big Bang. ALICE records data from lead-lead, proton-lead, and proton-proton collisions at the LHC and the Birmingham group analyse data from all these collision systems. Research students work closely with their supervisors, but also with other academic and research staff, participating fully in the life of the group. In addition to a number of short visits to CERN, students may spend a year at CERN on Long Term Attachment (LTA) if they wish and usually present their results at an international conference.

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Funding Notes

For UK citizens, full fees are paid as well as a tax-free maintenance allowance of £17,668 per year for 3.5 years. Students on LTA at CERN will have their accommodation paid for and receive an additional allowance to cover the higher cost of living in Geneva. Funding is from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

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