Accelerator Physicist

You will contribute to the layout, optics design, performance optimisation and evaluation of a potential future collider at CERN, the Linear Collider Facility @ 380 GeV (LCF380). Responsibilities include beam dynamics simulations, interaction region investigations, and contributing to the summary design report.

Responsibilities

• Work on various design aspects of LCF380.
• Perform beam dynamics simulations to demonstrate its performance.
• Investigate the interaction regions (optics design, layout, for a possible dual beam delivery system) and the damping rings to optimise performance.
• Contribute to writing the summary design report.

Requirements

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State, excluding Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot and Croatian nationals due to Associate Membership Agreement limits.
• By the application deadline, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation.
• You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Knowledge and understanding of lepton beam dynamics and optics design, including synchrotron radiation.
• Knowledge and experience in the setup, analysis and interpretation of particle tracking studies.
• Analysis of experimental data.
• Your studies focused on Physics.
• Experience with accelerator physics codes like MAD, Xsuite, ELEGANT, pyAT, GuineaPig, etc.
• Experience running simulations on a high-performance computing (HPC) system.
• Good presentation skills.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Skills

• Lepton beam dynamics
• Optics design
• Synchrotron Radiation
• Particle tracking analysis
• Experimental Data Analysis
• Accelerator physics codes
• MAD
• Xsuite
• ELEGANT
• pyAT
• GuineaPig
• High-performance computing simulations
• Beam dynamics simulations
• Interaction region investigations
• Physics Research
• Presentation Skills

Languages

English, French