Post Doctoral Fellowship
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- Employer
- CUNY Research Foundation
- Location
- New York, New York
- Posted
- Nov 21, 2024
- Closes
- Jan 20, 2025
- Ref
- YC-2410-006528
- Discipline
- Physics, Particle, Nuclear & High Energy Physics
Postdoc in Experimental High Energy Physics at The City University of New York
General Description
The Experimental High Energy Physics research group at York College of The City University of New York is seeking a highly motivated individual to become a Postdoctoral Fellow working on the Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment (Mu2e) at Fermilab. Mu2e will search for the charged lepton flavor violating neutrinoless coherent conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an atomic nucleus. The successful candidate will be permanently stationed at FNAL and work closely with the PIs J. Popp and A. Edmonds. It is preferred that the successful candidate would start immediately.
The deadline for applications is Jan. 21, 2025.
The selected candidate will develop leadership skills and primarily work on one or more projects related to the tracker, pion production target improvement and its monitor, or muon stopping target monitor. The Tracker consists of 22,000 straw tube drift chambers, the Pion Production Target is a very high-power density target, and the Stopping Target Monitor (STM) measures the muon capture rate in the Muon Stopping Target.
The target monitoring systems use a variety of detector technologies (including scintillating crystal and solid state calorimetry, proportional wire chambers, and fast scintillating plastic) to monitor both primary proton and secondary muon beams. Our group is the lead institution on the Production Target Monitor and has responsibility on the STM for constructing and commissioning its collimators & shielding and for its alignment and calibration. We are also collaborating on Tracker assembly and commissioning at FNAL.
Responsibilities may include tracker construction, target monitoring systems development, testing, and integration, as well as software development for detector simulation, control, and analysis.
Approximate salary: commensurate with experience, between $50-60k.
CUNY is an equal opportunity employer.
Other Duties
Mentoring and guidance of graduate and undergraduate students and have the flexibility to travel when business requires it.