Description:

The large hadron collider at CERN, will probe the structure of matter at the highest energies achieved in a collider. The LHC will be able to probe high mass scales at which new physics can appear even with the first low luminosity data. A clear signature of this will be in deviations of high Et physics from standard model predictions. The student will work on the key issues in this study: reconstruction and measurement of high Et jets and develop robust methods for measuring deviations from the standard model predictions.

The successful candidate will undertake exciting research within a strong Glasgow ATLAS group consisting of 5 academics, 3 Research Fellows, 8 RAs and 3 PhD students. The project will involve analysing data to characterise hadronic interactions at LHC energies, and participating in the operation of the experiment. They will be expected to travel for short trips to CERN, Geneva and will have the opportunity to spend extended periods at CERN.

Search for a Higgs at CDF

Supervisor: Rick St Denis

The CDF detector has accumulated a large dataset and is expecting to triple or quadruple this over the net few years. This together with improvements in the detector will lead to at least an order of magnitude better sensitivity to rare processes in an environment that complements the LHC. Most importantly, the Higgs boson, the particle responsible for the mass of all other fundamental particles, is expected to be produced at a rate that requires a sensitivity a factor of two from that currently achievable. Current trends seem to indicate that the Higgs is light making its discovery at the LHC extremely challenging and hence leaving the Tevatron in a very competitive position to discover it. The Glasgow group is leading efforts within the CDF collaboration search for the higher mass Higgs and will work towards applying the tools that have been developed to the low mass Higgs search -- or capitalize on a discovery at high Mass!

The successful candidate will undertake exciting research within the CDF group and in liason with the ATLAS group. The project will involve analysing data to search for the Higgs boson and particpating in the operation of the experiment. They will be expected to travel for short trips to Fermilab near Chicago and will have the opportunity to spend extended periods at Fermilab.

Contact:

Letters of Reference should be sent to: c.buttar@physics.gla.ac.uk