PhD Studentship: On the NOvA Experiment

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/epp/  

Purposes are invited from proficient and inventive college students for a PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics, to affix the Sussex group engaged on the NOvA experiment underneath the supervision of Dr Lily Asquith. 

The NOvA experiment makes use of the world’s strongest neutrino beam supplied by Fermilab in Chicago, USA to measure the oscillation of muon-type to electron-type neutrinos utilizing a pair of detectors separated by 800 km. NOvA will proceed with greater than a decade of data-taking till round 2027, and so is coming into a very powerful period when it comes to information evaluation. Exploitation of the large ultimate information set would require inventive considering along with the event of machine studying strategies and novel approaches to the remedy of systematic uncertainties. The Sussex NOvA group includes two school, two postdocs, and three PhD college students. We’re main the trouble to make use of 1000’s of “check beam” particles to enhance the measurements of the oscillation parameters, together with the Cost-Parity violation parameter that might reveal the key of our matter-dominated universe.

Funding is on the market for a September 2024 begin which features a tax-free bursary (£18,662 each year in 2023/24) and totally paid tuition charges for 3.5 years on the home-student degree (£4,712 each year in 2023). Extra monetary help is supplied to cowl short-term and long-term journey. Interviews of shortlisted candidates will probably be held in February and March initially and can proceed till positions are stuffed. Purposes from self-funded college students inquisitive about obtainable tasks are additionally welcome at any time of the yr.

Residence and Abroad college students are eligible to use.

UK college students are eligible for dwelling tuition charges, as are EU college students with settled or pre-settled standing underneath the EU Settlement Scheme . Excellent college students not eligible for dwelling charges could also be thought of for a partial tuition price waiver above that degree.

Purposes shut at 23:45 on fifth April 2024. 

For extra particulars concerning the challenge, please contact Dr Lily Asquith: [email protected] .

For sensible questions on functions and/or eligibility for funding, please contact [email protected] .

For educational questions please contact the coordinator of EPP PhD admissions, Dr Elisabeth Falk: [email protected] .

Purposes: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/phd/apply

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