Research Associate: LHCb

The role

The Particle Physics group of the University of Bristol (tinyurl.com/particle-bristol), UK, seeks a Research Associate to join its LHCb group (http://tinyurl.com/BristolFlavour). The group places a high value on diversity and inclusivity and looks forward to applications from all backgrounds and communities. The position is funded until October 2025,  in the first instance. Applicants should hold a PhD in particle physics or a related field or be about to obtain one.

The postholder will work on measurements of CP violation in B and D meson decays and spearhead the new initiative of the group to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of tau leptons. The group’s speciality lies in the detailed analysis of multibody decays of beauty and charm hadrons to, by developing sophisticated amplitude analysis techniques to maximise sensitivity to new physics phenomena. The group also has important responsibilities in the current and future LHCb detector upgrades, and the development of trigger and particle identification technologies using novel hardware accelerators

What will you be doing?

The main focus of the postholder’s job will be LHCb data analysis (including opportunities to contribute to phenomenology and software), complemented by contributions to detector operation and development.

You should apply if

You hold or about to hold a PhD in particle physics and have experience with flavour physics analyses involving amplitude analyses and lepton universality tests of B-hadron decays; you are a seasoned C++ and Python programmer, ideally with some experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch libraries.

Additional information

For informal enquiries, contact: Jonas Rademacker jonas.rademacker@bristol.ac.uk OR Konstantinos Petridis konstantinos.petridis@bristol.ac.uk

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