cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

University of Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy

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. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Evans

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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(University of Manchester - University of Tokyo Dual Award) Advanced particle tracking and real-time analysis for discoveries at the ATLAS detector at CERN

The University of Manchester Department of Physics and Astronomy

The matter that we know of constitutes only 15% of our universe - the remaining 85% is an enigmatic form of matter known as dark matter. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Doglioni, Prof R Sawada

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Silicon Sensor Particle Detectors for the Upgrade of the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

A position is open for an enthusiastic particle physics PhD student to conduct research in developing silicon sensor technologies in use at the energy frontier at the ATLAS experiment. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Vickey, Dr K Lohwasser

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Searching for Higgs Boson Pair Production with the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

It's possible that the 125 GeV Higgs boson discovered by the CERN ATLAS and CMS Experiments is only one of several neutrally-charged Higgs bosons predicted by theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Vickey

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully-funded PhD in Sustainable High Power RF Amplifiers for Muon Colliders

Lancaster University School of Engineering

A student is sought for a PhD study on the development of high efficiency RF amplifiers for the Muon Collider design study at CERN. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Burt

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Search for new physics with LHC data and developing ultra-fast silicon detectors

University of Birmingham School of Physics and Astronomy

We have one fully-funded place for a new PhD student to join our LHCb team, working in the particle physics group at the University of Birmingham, exploring the latest LHC data collected with the LHCb experiment. Read more

Supervisors: Prof Nigel Watson, Dr D Johnson

27 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Particle accelerator simulations for new particle physics experiments

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

Particle colliders are incredibly complex and expensive devices to design, construct, operate and maintain. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Gibson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Antimatter Chemistry: computational studies of matter-antimatter interactions

Aberdeen University School of Natural and Computing Sciences

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Law, Dr W T A Harrison

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Searches for supersymmetry and dark matter particles with the ATLAS experiment

University of Sheffield Department of Physics and Astronomy

The student will work on the analysis of the data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider to search for new particles that are postulated by Supersymmetry. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D Costanzo, Prof D R Tovey

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Beam gas curtain monitor for the High Luminosity LHC

University of Liverpool Department of Physics

The QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, has pioneered the development of a supersonic gas jet as a non-invasive beam profile monitor. Read more

Supervisors: Prof C Welsch, Dr H Zhang

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation using top quark events in the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof V Boisvert

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Searching for exotics signatures (Dark Matter/Extra Dimensions)

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods and plays a leading role internationally in the ATLAS trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Berry

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Higgs boson production measurement during the LHC Run 3 with the ATLAS detector

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group is renowned for its expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Teixeira-Dias

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of novel statistical methods and application to searches for New Physics using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

The long-established RHUL ATLAS group has extensive expertise in physics (Higgs, top quark and exotic signatures involving electrons), statistical methods, as well as trigger and data acquisition systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Cowan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing Studies with the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)

University of Liverpool Department of Physics

Neutrinos are the most abundant massive particle in the universe. Since their discovery, neutrinos played an important role in many areas of physics. Read more

Supervisors: Prof CA Andreopoulos, Prof XL Lu

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 20 cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 20 cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

(University of Manchester - University of Tokyo Dual Award) Advanced particle tracking and real-time analysis for discoveries at the ATLAS detector at CERN

Silicon Sensor Particle Detectors for the Upgrade of the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC

Searching for Higgs Boson Pair Production with the ATLAS Experiment at the CERN LHC

Fully-funded PhD in Sustainable High Power RF Amplifiers for Muon Colliders

Search for new physics with LHC data and developing ultra-fast silicon detectors

Particle accelerator simulations for new particle physics experiments

Antimatter Chemistry: computational studies of matter-antimatter interactions

Searches for supersymmetry and dark matter particles with the ATLAS experiment

Beam gas curtain monitor for the High Luminosity LHC

Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation using top quark events in the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Searching for exotics signatures (Dark Matter/Extra Dimensions)

Higgs boson production measurement during the LHC Run 3 with the ATLAS detector

Development of novel statistical methods and application to searches for New Physics using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing Studies with the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)

We have 20 cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 20 cern PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

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