Accelerator Physicist

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research

Geneva, Switzerland

What you'll do

You will contribute to a proposal covering the layout, optics design, performance optimisation and evaluation of a potential future collider at CERN, the Linear Collider Facility @ 380 GeV (LCF380).

Your responsibilities

• Work on various design aspects of LCF380.
• Perform beam dynamics simulations to demonstrate its performance.
• Investigate the interaction regions (optics design, layout, for a possible dual beam delivery system) and the damping rings to optimise performance.
• Contribute to writing the summary design report.

Your profile

• Knowledge and understanding of lepton beam dynamics and optics design, including synchrotron radiation.
• Knowledge and experience in the setup, analysis and interpretation of particle tracking studies.
• Analysis of experimental data.
• Your studies focused on Physics.

Your skills

• Accelerator physics codes like MAD, Xsuite, ELEGANT, pyAT, GuineaPig, etc.
• Running simulations on an HPC.
• Good presentation skills.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Let's get you ready

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State. Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot and Croatian nationals, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
• By the application deadline, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation. You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.