Phd Proposal: First High Resolution In-Gas-Jet Laser Spectroscopy At S3Leb

4 Oct 2023

Job Information

Organisation/Company

GANIL

Department

Direction

Research Field

Physics » Optics

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

France

Application Deadline

30 Jun 2024 - 00:00 (Europe/Paris)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Offer Starting Date

1 Oct 2024

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The Super Spectrometer Separator (S3) facility at GANIL-SPIRAL2 will extend the capability of the facility to perform experiments with radioactive nuclei produced with extremely low cross sections, taking advantage of the very high intensity stable beams of the superconducting linear accelerator of SPIRAL2. The focus of S3 physics in the field of nuclear physics is the study of nuclei from medium-heavy mass at the proton drip line up to the super-heavy elements produced by fusion-evaporation reactions. S3 will investigate the properties and the decays of their ground and isomeric states. These studies will pave the road to unravel the strong and weak interaction at play in the nuclear medium. The interest of the S3 physics is that the nuclear chart can be studied by different approaches depending on the experimental set-up placed at the end of the spectrometer.

The major attribute of the S3 Low Energy Branch (S3-LEB), one of the major instrumentation setups deployed at S3, is to use atomic physics techniques - more specifically, high resolution spectral measurements of the atomic transitions – in order to provide fundamental and nuclear-model-independent data on the structure of ground and isomeric nuclear states. In this context, this setup will allow the measurements of static properties of exotic nuclei such as charge radii, electromagnetic moments, nuclear spins and atomic masses, giving information on the distribution of the nucleons inside the nucleus and providing information on structural changes throughout the chart of nuclei. This state-of-the-art technique will be used at S3 with rare beams never studied by low-energy measurements.

The objective of this PhD project is to work on the commissioning plan and the first experiment of the S3 Low Energy Branch. The final goal of this project is to obtain nuclear and atomic physics information of the most neutron deficient erbium isotopes and beyond closer to the N=82 shell closure.

Requirements

Research Field

Physics » Optics

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Skills in the field of laser physics, atomic physics, ion manipulation and nuclear physics will be developed in the course of the PhD training

Ability to work in team

Proficiency in English

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Good

Research Field

Physics

Additional Information

Website for additional job details

https: // www. ganil-spiral2.eu/jobs/doctorat-et-post-doc/phd-positions/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

GANIL

Country

France

City

Caen

Street

boulevard Becquerel

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

CAEN

Website

https: // www. ganil-spiral2.eu

Street

Boulevard Henri Becquerel

STATUS: EXPIRED