Dear Colleagues
Please bring this to the attention of interested students, now at the Masters level.
Within the ERC-Advanced grant project of Wim Ubachs on “Physics Beyond the Standard Model from Molecules” there is an opening for two PhD students. The aim is to perform ultra-precision frequency measurements on vibrational modes in the hydrogen molecule, and perform a comparison with QED-theory, to search for new physics. In addition the project entails producing a high-density, high-repetition rate molecular beam, and the production of excited H2 quantum states via photolysis. The latter includes also the photo-stop technique to produce slow H2 molecules in the laboratory frame.
Key words for the research are: infrared lasers, optical parametric oscillator, pulsed Ti:Sa lasers, frequency comb laser, molecular beam techniques, vacuum, quantum electrodynamics.
Students of all nationalities, with MSc. Degree in physics, chemistry, or engineering are eligible.
Knowledge about lasers and spectroscopy is a considered an advantage. The work is mainly experimental and will be carried out at LaserLaB Amsterdam, which is part of Laserlab-Europe.
Previous publications about the project:
G.D. Dickenson et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 193601 (2013)
E.J. Salumbides et al., Phys. Rev. D87 (2013) 112008; New. J. Phys. 17, 033015 (2015).
The PhD positions are funded with full salary for 4 years and the candidate will have an employee status. Salary, up to 2,636 euro gross (taxable) per month in the 4th year is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,33%.
See also: http://www.nat.vu.nl/~wimu/ERC-UBACHS-H2-laboratory.pdf
Send application with letter of motivation, CV, and reference letters to: Prof. Wim Ubachs ([log in to unmask]).
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