Open Position for a PhD at EPFL-LPAP on Advancing Beam dynamics studies for the next generation of Sustainable Accelerating Systems

With the ambition to maintain the attractiveness and competitiveness of European Research Infrastructures and to enable Europe’s Green Deal, the iSAS project propose to Innovate for Sustainable Accelerating Systems by establishing enhanced collaboration in the field to broaden, expedite and amplify the development and impact of novel energy-saving technologies to accelerate particles. For many frontier accelerators Superconducting Radio Frequency systems are the enabling technology. The objective of iSAS is to innovate those technologies that have been identified as being a common core of accelerating systems and that have the largest leverage for energy savings with a view to minimizing the intrinsic energy consumption in all phases of operation. This will contribute to the vital transition to sustain the tremendous 20th century applications of the accelerator technology in a green and energy conscious 21st century. The Laboratory for Particle Accelerator Physics at the EPFL(the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne ) is partner of the innovate SAS project (iSAS) and for this we are looking for a motivated PhD student that will be involved in Advancing the beam dynamic studies linked to the development of this sustainable accelerating technology. The selected candidate will engage in cutting-edge research in the development of sustainable accelerating technology for the next generation accelerator based European research infrastructures. The PhD student will focus on the modelling and understanding of the particle beam dynamics in the presence of collective effects while travelling through the accelerating cavities that are under design. The simulation results will give fundamental inputs to the engineers identifying intensity limitations and/or define tolerances at the design stage of the system. In addition the student will study the deceleration of beams with deteriorated parameters from an interaction with an opposing beam like in colliders, or for example a beam that was used to generate an FEL X-ray pulse to identify possible limitations of the technology and/or feedback improvements to the design of such system. The candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary team mainly based at CERN.

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