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Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Hadron Physics at the
Institute of Nuclear Physics in Orsay, France</big></u><br>
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A postdoctoral position in experimental hadron physics is opened
at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay located 25km south of
Paris. The successful candidate will join the hadronic physics group
for a period of 3 years to work on the electromagnetic physics
program of the PANDA experiment (FAIR/Darmstadt) and in the
corresponding technical developments.<br>
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IPN Orsay is a joint laboratory of the CNRS and the University
of Paris Sud. It is the largest nuclear physics laboratory in France
with more than a hundred researchers and faculty members and thirty
PhD students who conduct research on dense and hot primordial
matter, the origin of cosmic showers, the physical limits of atomic
nuclei, the properties of short lived aggregates of protons and
neutrons in stars, and the structure of matter in terms of quarks
and gluons. The institute has technical divisions of primary
importance, with more than 200 engineers and technicians conducting
frontier R&D in accelerator physics and instrumentation.<br>
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The PANDA group at the IPN Orsay consists currently of seven
permanent scientists and three PhD students. Since 2004 we are
developing an ambitious program focused on the electromagnetic
channels in antiproton proton annihilation reactions. The program
contains detailed studies of the channels antiproton p → ℓ+ ℓ- and
ℓ+ ℓ- X (where ℓ is a lepton) which the group wants to study with
the FAIR machine, under construction in Darmstadt (Germany). These
channels give access to the proton structure via the electric and
magnetic form factors of the proton in the time-like region.<br>
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The candidate will take an active part in the activities within
the group which cover technical, computational and phenomenological
aspects. He/she is expected to contribute to the validation of the
calorimeter prototype, which includes tests with cosmic rays and
with tagged photon and electron beams. These activities are to be
executed in collaboration with the IPN detector R&D team. An
important part of the task will be to verify that the measured
experimental performances are in accordance with the simulated ones.
These results will then be used to validate the final
electromagnetic channels simulation under the most realistic
conditions.<br>
An other task will be the participation in the PANDAroot Monte
Carlo, which includes code development for particle ID, tracking and
filtering purposes, and physics channels simulations, based on
locally developed event generators.<br>
Part of the group is also involved in the HADES experiment at GSI.
This program is currently taking data, thus providing a wealth of
results for meson and e+e-pair production. Notably the IPN team is
involved in the study of the reactions pp→ p p e+ e-, np→n p e+ e-
and π- p → n e+ e-, giving access to time-like transition form
factors of baryons, in very close connection to the PANDA
electromagnetic physics program. A participation of the candidate to
this activity is encouraged, at the level of 20 to 30%.<br>
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Applicants should have a Ph.D. in experimental physics. One to
five years of post-doctoral experience in hadronic physics, with
experience in simulation and/or analysis of experiments is
preferred. Candidates should send a brief description of their work
experience, and a short CV to Thierry Hennino (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hennino@ipno.in2p3.fr">hennino@ipno.in2p3.fr</a>)
before 31 may 2013. Letters of reference are appreciated. Any
inquiries should be sent to the same address.<br>
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