Research Associate in High Energy Physics

Imperial College London invites applications for a Research Associate to work on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

Duties and responsibilities

You will focus on the development of the upgraded RICH and silicon tracking detectors, and contribute to the operation of the existing RICH detector. Imperial played a leading role in the design and construction of LHCb’s RICH detectors, will play a similar role in the operation of the current RICH detectors and design of their upgrade, and has begun development of the mechanical design of the new silicon tracking detector planned for the next upgrade.

Essential requirements

You will hold a PhD* in a relevant area or have an equivalent level of professional qualifications and experience.

• You must also be able to demonstrate the following essential criteria:
• A strong track record with clearly defined individual contributions
• Experience in detector development and operation
• Experience in taking initiative and/or developing own ideas independently
• Experience in computing and advanced programming in C++ or Python
• Experience of working in a collaborative environment

In addition, it would be desirable if you had:

• Experience with photon and/or silicon detectors
• Experience of communicating ideas to engineers and technicians
• Experience with Monte Carlo simulation techniques and tools
• Evidence of ability to write high quality research papers

Further information

This position is available immediately for two years with the possibility of extension.

The position will be basesd in the UK but will require regular travel to CERN. Other UK and foreign travel is likley to be required.

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as Research Assistant within the salary range £40,694 – £43,888 per annum.

The Imperial College High Energy Physics Group has a strong ongoing experimental programme encompassing the T2K, Super-Kamiokande and future Hyper-Kamiokande experiments in Japan; the future neutrino oscillation experiment DUNE at Fermilab and SURF in the USA; the search for charged lepton flavour violation with COMET in Japan; the CMS and LHCb experiments at the LHC; the search for dark matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in the USA; the development of nuSTORM; the Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network (AION) project in the UK and the USA; SHiP and SuperNEMO activities and the development of future experiments and impact through the application of HEP technologies. There are also significant accelerator, phenomenology and Grid computing programmes. The Group is the host of two Imperial College Centres of Excellence: Centre for Clinical Application of Particles and Centre for High-Throughout Digital Electronics and Machine Learning .

More information about the Department of Physics and the High Energy Physics Group can be found on our webpages.

The Department of Physics is an IoP JUNO Practitioner and an Athena Silver SWAN Award winner reflecting our commitment to building a supportive, inclusive and highly motivated community. See our EDI webpage for more Information. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in Physics.

Further details about the positions are available from Dr. Michael McCann ([email protected] ).

Should you have any queries about the application process please contact Paula Brown, Section Administrator, [email protected] .

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

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