Basic Information

Type : Postdocs

Title : Postdoctoral position in experimental nuclear physics

Country : Sweden

Language : English

Organisation : UU

Deadline of application : Monday 16 January 2012

opportunity details

The nuclear reactions group http://www.physics.uu.se/tk/en/content/nuclear-reaction-research-group is looking for a postdoc within the research field of nuclear data, especially neutron-induced nuclear reactions. The group is part of the division of applied nuclear physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. We are currently starting up a new measurement campaign on neutron-induced light-ion production and neutron-induced fission at the Neutrons For Science (NFS) facility. NFS is currently under construction as part of Spiral2 at GANIL in France (http://www.ganil-spiral2.eu/) and is expected to be operational by spring 2013.

The candidate will participate in planning and performing measurement campaigns at NFS. An existing detector setup (Medley) will be upgraded, installed and tested on site. We plan to install and use parallel-plate avalanche counters (PPAC) in the Medley chamber. Simulations of the detector setup using Monte Carlo codes like Geant4. The setup will then be used for studies of light-ion production, as well as precision measurements of fission cross sections and angular distributions of fission fragments. The measured data will be used for improving nuclear model codes.

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The Postdoc position is for two years. Please see the details at: http://www2.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser/2518postDOC.html 

Further information is available at http://www.physics.uu.se/en/page/education 

For more information, please contact: Stephan Pomp, Ph. +46-(0)18-471 6850 (stephan.pomp@physics.uu.se) or Cecilia Gustavsson, Ph. +46-(0)18-471 3444 (cecilia.gustavsson@physics.uu.se). Union representatives are Anders Grundström, Saco-rådet, Ph. +46-18-471 53 80, Carin Söderhäll, OFR-S/ST, Ph. +4618-471 19 96, Stefan Djurström, Seko, Ph. +46-18-471 33 15.