XLZD Postdoctoral Research Associate

Job title:

XLZD Postdoctoral Research Associate

Company

University of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Description:Grade UE07: £39,347 to £46,974 per annum.School of Physics and Astronomy / Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics / CSEFull time: 35 hours per week.Fixed Term: For 39 months.The Opportunity:The international XLZD consortium is developing a next-generation rare event observatory based on the world-leading liquid xenon technology. The experiment will search for electro-weak-scale particle dark matter and enable world-class sensitivity to other rare physics processes such as neutrinoless double-beta decay and astrophysical neutrino interactions. Building on expertise from the world-leading LZ detector, our group has strategic leadership in the Outer Detector for the UK XLZD project, which aims to bring the experiment to the UK’s Boulby Underground Laboratory. This position is a combination of essential simulation and design studies with hardware and prototyping work, and you will join a growing and vibrant dark matter group consisting of two academics, three PDRAs and four PhD students.Your skills and attributes for success:

• Possess, or be about to obtain, a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics
• Proven track record of performing high quality research in Experimental Particle Physics
• Good working knowledge of C++ and/or Python programming languages
• Ability to self-motivate and work independently
• Ability to work as part of a team while showing leadership and initiative

Click to view a copy of the fullAs a valued member of our team you can expect:

• A competitive salary of £39,347 to £46,974 per annum.
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our

(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.Championing equality, diversity and inclusionThe University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our (opens new browser tab)The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.Key dates to noteThe closing date for applications is 22 August 2024.Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.About the Team:The Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics is composed of three research groups.The Particle Physics Experiments group seeks understanding of the fundamental particles of nature and the interactions governing their behaviour. In particular, we aim to explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter through the study of CP violation with the LHCb experiment: to understand the mechanisms of electroweak symmetry breaking that lead to the creation of mass, and to search for new particles at ATLAS and future colliders; to discover and characterise particle dark matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN and DarkSide-20k experiments; and to explore neutrino oscillations, and neutrinos of astrophysical origin with experiments distributed grid computing (GridPP), to store and analyse the vast quantities of data that are produced in these endeavours.The Particle Physics Theory Group is interested in fundamental physics at all energy scales, from the hadronic binding energy scale, to the scale of present and future particle colliders, up to the energy scales of the very early universe at its first fractional second of existence. We have interest and theoretical involvement in most current and upcoming particle physics experiments, high energy colliders, and in observations made by the WMAP and Planck satellites. We pursue the very latest developments in both perturbative and nonperturbative field theory, renormalization theory, and the application of quantum field theory to other branches of physics such as turbulence theory and condensed matter systems.The Nuclear Physics Group has a broad and diverse range of research interests aimed at understanding the properties and structure of nuclei, the origin of the chemical elements in the universe, and the way in which nuclear reactions power some of the most spectacular stellar explosions, such as novae, supernovaea and X-ray bursts. Our research is performed at world-leading oversea laboratories (TRIUMF, RIKEN, GSI, LNGS, CERN and others), using a variety of experimental techniques and state-of-the-art instrumentation developed by the group.

Expected salary

£39347 – 46974 per year

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:36:40 GMT

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