Start Date: September 2012

Application Closing Date: 15 March 2012

Supervisor: Dr Gavin Smith

The Nuclear Physics Group at the University of Manchester is offering two fully-funded PhD studentships in Low-energy Experimental Nuclear Physics.  Most of the our current research is carried out by performing experiments at major international facilities, such as at Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Jyvaskyla (Finland), GANIL (France), ILL (France) and  GSI (Germany). A major project with which the Manchester group is involved is the construction and use of the CLARA detector array and PRISMA magnetic spectrometer at Legnaro National Laboratory in Italy, in order to study the structure of exotic nuclei. The group is also the world leader in fission-fragment spectroscopy and is currently involved in the exploitation of the STEFF spectrometer, which will be used to search for gamma decays from very neutron-rich fission fragments. In addition, the group is involved with the Gammasphere, Exogam, and GREAT projects, and also leads programs of laser-spectroscopy research and nuclear lifetime measurements at Jyvaskyla and Laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE at CERN. The successful applicants will be funded to carry out  research towards the award of PhD in projects chosen from the above research areas for a period of 3 ½ years.

Qualifications:  BSc/MPhys/MSc in Physics, 1st class or 2.1

Enquiries: Dr Gavin Smith, Email: gavin.smith [at] manchester.ac [dot] uk

How to Apply: Please visit: www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply/

For more information about the Group and its research, visit www.nuclear.manchester.ac.uk/

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