Research Associate (LZ Experiment)

Job description:

The Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics group at the University of Sheffield is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic post-doctoral research associate to work with Prof. Dan Tovey and Dr. Adam Brown on the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) liquid xenon dark matter experiment at SURF in South Dakota. LZ is currently the world’s most sensitive dark matter experiment. The post-holder will analyse LZ data to search for low energy nuclear recoil signals for WIMP dark matter, and also contribute to the maintenance, operation and calibration of the experiment. Experience of estimation and modelling of backgrounds to low energy nuclear recoil signals would be an advantage. The post-holder will also be expected to contribute to the production of Monte Carlo simulation samples for the experiment.

You will have a PhD or equivalent in particle physics or a related discipline (or equivalent experience), along with experience of analysis of data from low background experiments. Experience of conducting searches for low energy nuclear recoil signals for WIMP dark matter, using statistical data analysis tools for dark matter searches, and estimation and modelling of backgrounds in dark matter searches would be desirable.

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