School of Physics and Astronomy, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £33,348 to £43,155, with potential progression once in post to £45,737

Grade 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract, duration 2.5 years.

Closing date: 28th May 2023 (23:59 GMT+1)

The Birmingham Particle Physics group has a vacancy for a Research Fellow working on the LHCb experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The successful applicant will play a leading role in the group’s searches for new low-mass dark-sector particles, in particular dark photons, axion-like particles and scalar Higgs-like particles. They will also have the opportunity to contribute to the group’s ongoing work on LHCb simulation or 4D tracking for LHCb Upgrade II.

The Particle Physics group currently has 11 academic staff, 19 post doctoral researchers and engineers, five support staff and over 20 research students. Our present activities include ATLAS and LHCb at the LHC, NA62 on the CERN SPS, Dark Matter searches with NEWS-G and Darkside, facilities and the DUNE future long-baseline neutrino experiment. We have 200m2 suite of clean room facilities for silicon detector R&D and construction, and maintain a significant Tier 2 site on the UK GridPP contribution to LHC world-wide distributed computing.

The School of Physics and Astronomy is one of the largest in the UK, with a wide-ranging research portfolio, and is consistently ranked highly for excellence in research and teaching. It takes in around 200 undergraduates per year and has over 100 academic and research staff, 120 graduate students and 35 technical support staff.

A PhD in Particle Physics and experience of programming in Python and C++ will be essential for this post. Experience of data analysis in LHCb is also desirable. The applicant must enjoy independent research as well as working in a team and must be willing to travel and spend periods at CERN.

Potential applicants are encouraged to obtain further information about the post from:

Dr Dan Johnson (Daniel.Johnson@cern.ch) or Prof. Nigel Watson (Nigel.Watson@cern.ch)