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Dr S Cartwright,
Dr Patrick Stowell
Applications accepted all year round
Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
The particle physics and particle astrophysics (PPPA) group at the University of Sheffield has a long-standing involvement in Japan’s long-baseline neutrino programme. Currently we are involved in 3 projects, T2K, Super-Kamiokande (“Super-K”) and Hyper-Kamiokande (“Hyper-K”). T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is a long-baseline experiment that creates neutrinos in the J-PARC facility, detects them in a “near detector” just 280 m away and then again in SuperKamiokande, a huge 50,000 tonne Cerenkov detector almost 300 km away. HyperKamiokande is a planned next-generation “far detector” with a fiducial volume of 180,000 tonnes. To date, T2K has provided world-leading measurements of the parameters in the CKM neutrino mixing matrix as well as first indications of CP violation in the neutrino sector.
Sheffield PhD students working on the Japanese long-baseline programme typically work on T2K, which gives them the opportunity to analyse data from a currently operating long-baseline neutrino experiment. However there is also the option of involvement with either the Super-K or Hyper-K experiments (in addition to T2K). Over the past few years our students have been involved in a broad range of T2K analyses including cross-section measurements, improving our understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions and the discrimination between different supernovae models. In addition to these analysis topics, students have the opportunity to engage with the scientific programme of work that the Sheffield group is pursuing for both the Super-K and Hyper-K experiments. Currently this involves the design and testing of a pulsed light injection system for calibrating Hyper-K as well as software studies on the proposed system’s performance and the analysis of data coming out of a prototype calibration system which has been deployed in Super-K. The sensitivity of Hyper-K to supernovae is also under study.
Students are expected to spend up to 12 months, typically split over 2 trips, in Japan (either Tokai and/or Kamioka) and participate in T2K data-taking shifts during beam time. Language classes are provided when in Japan and are funded through the studentship.
Candidates should have a good knowledge of particle physics and programming skills.
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