UCL Experimental Particle Physics Responsive PDRA Call (2023-2025)

实验粒子物理学研究的是极小的尺寸，或相当于高能量。我们试图从基本力和粒子的角度来理解物理宇宙的本质，以回答一个简单的问题：我们的宇宙是如何进化的？能够达到这些极端的实验在技术上要求很高，需要能够在恶劣环境中运行的精密探测器，能够以非常高的能量碰撞光束的粒子加速器，能够识别非常罕见的衰变的超灵敏探测器，能够每秒读取100万条信息的高速电子设备，以及使用最新的数据挖掘技术分析PB级数据的软件。这为PDRA在实验粒子物理领域提供了响应性的职位。博士后研究助理(PDRA)是我们物理研究的基石。培训这些高技能的早期职业科学家为未来的科学领导能力奠定了基础，同时使我们能够利用当前的科学机会。这些科学机会包括：-了解希格斯玻色子的性质和确切性质，并利用ATLAS实验在大型强子对撞机上寻找新的物理。-理解为什么我们生活在一个由物质而不是反物质主导的宇宙中，这与大爆炸后立即发生的情况形成了鲜明对比。伦敦大学学院将分析来自SuperNEMO的数据，这将有助于揭示双β衰变这一极其罕见的过程背后的核过程。这将有助于寻找无中微子的双β衰变，对这种衰变的观察将产生对宇宙物质-反物质不对称性如何可能产生的基本见解。-搜索极高能量的现象，远远超出人造加速器的范围。PUEO实验在南极洲寻找超高能中微子相互作用，我们将探索太平洋上新的中微子望远镜提供的机会。-与其他科学家和行业分享我们的结果。我们的加速器和解析器专业知识以及我们在大数据领域的领先地位，可以应用于学术和更广泛的经济的各个部门。

Experimental particle physics studies extremely small sizes, or equivalently high energies. We seek to understand the nature of the physical universe in terms of fundamental forces and particles to answer the simple question: how did our universe evolve? Experiments capable of reaching these extremes are technically demanding, requiring precision detectors which can operate in hostile environments, particle accelerators which can collide beams at very high energies, super-sensitive detectors capable of identifying very rare decays, high-speed electronics to read a million pieces of information per second & software to analyse petabytes of data using the latest data-mining techniques.This grant funds responsive PDRA posts in experimental particle physics. Post-doctoral research assistants (PDRA's) form the cornerstone of our physics research. Training these highly skilled early career scientists lays the foundation for future science leadership while allowing us to exploit current scientific opportunities. These scientific opportunities include:- Understand the properties and exact nature of the Higgs boson and search for new physics at the LHC with the ATLAS experiment.- Understand why we live in a universe dominated by matter rather than anti-matter, in contrast to the conditions immediately after the Big Bang. UCL will analyse data from SuperNEMO which will help to shed light on the nuclear processes underlying the incredibly rare process of double-beta decay. This will help in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the observation of which would yield fundamental insights into how the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry may have arisen.- Search for phenomena at extremely high energies, well beyond the reach of man-made accelerators. The PUEO experiment searches for ultra-high energy neutrino interactions in Antarctica, and we will explore the opportunities offered by a new neutrino telescope in the Pacific Ocean will be explored.- Share our results with other scientists and industry. Our accelerator and dectector expertise as well as our leadership in big-data, can be applied to various sectors of academic and the wider economy.