Responsive PDRA applications for Centre for Particle Physics at Royal Holloway, University of London

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Experimental particle physics addresses some of the fundamentalquestions about the structure and behaviour of the Universe at thelevel of the smallest particles of matter, the quarks and the leptons,and the forces acting between them. We are exploring fundamentalproperties of particles at the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) andalso exploring the nature of dark matter and neutrinos by developingand employing novel detection systems.We are contributing to the continued operation of the ATLAS project atthe Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We have constructed andcommissioned electronic systems and the software that drives them.From the beginning of data taking we have played a leading role insearches for exotic particles, the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson,and studies of the properties of the heaviest particle discovered so far:the top quark. Given the very large dataset currently available and being collected, we plan on expanding our measurements of the Higgs bosonand initiate new searches for exotic particles.Although there is ample indirect evidence for the existence of darkmatter as inferred from its gravitational interactions, it has not yetbeen directly detected in terrestrial laboratories. Direct detectionexperiments seek to observe dark matter scattering on target detectornuclei. We explore these issues through a world-leading dark mattersearch with the development of a large dark matter detector DarkSide-20k whichuses liquid argon. Using detection techniques similar to those of our dark matter research, we are also involved in the the puzzle surrounding the matter anti-matter asymmetry in the Universe bystudying the elusive neutrino particle. We measure CP violation in the lepton sectorusing the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment in Japan.