Location: | Didcot, Oxfordshire |
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Salary: | £42,840 to £59,199 Band D - E (dependent on skills and experience) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 13th September 2024 |
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Closes: | 6th October 2024 |
Job Ref: | 240000T6 |
Salary: Band D: £42,840 to £47,124 or at Band E: £53,818 to £59,199 (dependent on skills and experience)
Hours: Full time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)
Contract Type: Fixed Term- 24 months
Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire
The ISIS neutron and muon source synchrotron provides one of the highest power proton sources in the world. The Novel Beams team is charged with developing the next generation of accelerator technologies to support ISIS and the broader accelerator science community.
Our team is delivering novel accelerator techniques like Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAs) accelerators. We also develop high-brightness muon beam techniques for materials science and the next-generation collider that will follow the end of operation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. One of our key tools is OPAL, a particle tracking code that we are developing in collaboration with PSI and other accelerator institutes around the world.
This is where we need your help!
We would like to extend the capabilities of OPAL to simulate the ISIS synchrotron and novel FFA accelerators to complement our existing suite of accelerator modelling tools. You will be an exceptional computational scientist with strong interest in software development with deep knowledge of physics, ideally including knowledge of particle accelerator simulation. It is natural within the remit of our group to explore new accelerator concepts, so we hope you will have lots of ideas for your own research. Support of ISIS operation, including gathering data for model validation, will be an important part of this task. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to spend extended periods at PSI working with the Accelerator Modelling and Advanced Simulation group.
Personal Specification
The below will be reviewed at Shortlisting and Interview stage:
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Chris Rogers, chris.rogers@stfc.ac.uk (Novel Beams section leader).
Our Benefits
STFC provides a whole host of benefits including:
To view more about ISIS please visit https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx
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