Postdoctoral researcher on the ATLAS experiment (ITk)
Inspire
Saclay, 91400
Job description:
The ATLAS group at CEA Paris-Saclay (Irfu/DPhP) is opening a two-year post-doc position to work on the ATLAS experiment.
The CEA group has been involved in ATLAS since its origins, mainly in the design and construction of the liquid argon electromagnetic calorimeter and of the muon spectrometer. The group has expertise in detector and reconstruction aspects (calorimeter trigger, muon reconstruction, muon alignment, electron and photon calibration, b-tagging, database management, data preparation and luminosity) as well as in physics analysis (electroweak physics, top quark and Higgs boson physics). It also participates in several upgrades for detector improvements: the upgrade of the electromagnetic calorimeter trigger and the upgrade of the central inner tracker (ITk).
CEA is responsible together with the two other institutes of the Paris Cluster production site (LPNHE-Paris and IJCLab-Orsay) for the assembly and testing of 33% of the ITk pixel quadruplet modules for the outer barrel, which corresponds to about 2200 modules to be delivered to the collaboration by 2026.
The main task of the successful candidate will be the development and operation of the ITk pixel module test benches at CEA. Development work covers module data analysis, process optimisation and automatization (detector control system software, database services, quality control analysis) to scope with the target production rate. The operation tasks cover management of the technical team and follow-up of the daily production. A fraction of the time will also be devoted to contribute to the analysis of data collected during the LHC Run3, joining the current activities related to top-Higgs physics of the group.
Highly qualified and motivated applicants should have a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics by the time of appointment and ideally some experience in detector operation and/or instrumentation. Being able to communicate in French with the technical team is an asset although not mandatory. They should send, by December 31th 2023, a curriculum vitae that includes a description of the research experience, a list of publications, and a motivation letter. The applications should be sent via email to Frédéric Déliot ([email protected]). They should also arrange to have at least two letters of recommendation sent to the same email address.