This is an exciting opportunity to join the international Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration and become an active member of the experimental neutrino groups at both Kings College London and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (PPD). We encourage enthusiastic applicants from all backgrounds to join our diverse team. The successful candidate will spend time at both institutions, and will also be able to travel to Japan (dependent on lifting of covid travel restrictions) to gain first hand experience. They will also benefit from participation in an organised lecture programmes during the first year.
The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment (Hyper-K) is the next generation of neutrino observatory. It consists of one of the most powerful long baseline neutrino beams, a near detector complex, and a 260 kton Water Cherenkov Far Detector using 40000 high efficiency photomultiplier tubes. The experiment has a wide physics range with excellent sensitivity to neutrino CP violation through the measurement of the high-power neutrino beam from JPARC, the neutrino mass ordering through the measurement of atmospheric neutrinos and unprecedented sensitivity to proton decay which is predicted by many grand unified theories. In addition, the detector is highly sensitive to galactic supernovae and can even see a supernova from Andromeda and well as detecting the background of neutrinos from supernovae across the universe, the DSNB.
There are a variety of possible project directions including studying and improving the sensitivity of the above mentioned measurements, development of the Hyper-K outer veto detector - vital for all the above measurements, contributing to the development of a fast GPU based triggering process to detect supernovae and their direction, and/or the development of methods to reduce systematic uncertainties. There are also opportunities for prototyping the proposed methods using the existing Super-Kamiokande detector.
For full information on how to apply: https://apply.kcl.ac.uk
Financial support covers the home fees charged at University and is available for UK students. Non-UK students can find out which fees they have to pay from the UKCISA page. In addition, a maintenance allowance is paid over 3.5 years. International students are eligible, and 30% of the studentships can be given to such students. However, the grants do not cover the international University fees. So if you have the correct qualifications and either the partner University offers a special deal to waive the international fees or you have access to your own funding, either from your home country or your own finances, your application will be considered.
Students not covered by the above may still be accepted to study for a PhD/D.Phil, under appropriate circumstances, provided they meet all the relevant entry criteria. All students will be entitled to the normal rights, privileges and use of facilities at the collaborating University, particularly those of the graduate school, and will be subject to the same responsibilities, rules and regulations as other registered graduate students. Whilst not an "employee" of STFC, when working at RAL, students will be required to comply with a number of policies/procedures including those relating to health and safety, no-smoking, code of conduct for staff etc as well as conforming with normal staff requirements for medical and security clearance. They will have the same access to Welfare, Occupational Health and Nursery facilities as STFC employees.
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