Job Description
Description Postdoctoral Scholars on KATRIN and Project 8 We invite applications for two full-time, 12-month Postdoctoral Scholar positions in the area of experimental nuclear physics, on direct measurements of neutrino mass, in the Physics Department at the University of Washington (UW). The base salary range for this position is $5705-$6500 per month, commensurate with experience and qualifications or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination. The successful candidates will be involved in two experiments, KATRIN and Project 8, that probe the neutrino mass by precisely measuring the beta decay spectrum of tritium. We envision that one position will involve full time work on Project 8 and one will be a split between KATRIN and Project 8. We welcome candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, including but not limited to nuclear, atomic, precision measurements, particle, or astroparticle physics. Previous experience in one or more of the following topics is preferred: neutrino experiments, silicon detectors, ultra-high vacuum, tritium gas handling, magnetometry, cryogenic engineering, charged-particle trapping, atom trapping and cooling, RF/microwave cavities and radiation detection, FPGAs, Python, C++, Monte Carlo simulation, event reconstruction techniques, and data analysis and data quality assurance. KATRIN recently set the world-leading neutrino mass limit of 0.45 eV/c2, and its ongoing and final data taking campaign aims to reach a final sensitivity of ~300 meV. It is located at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; the UW is the lead US institute, responsible for providing the primary electron detection system and active in the ongoing data acquisition and analysis. Project 8 represents the next generation of beta decay neutrino mass experiments, using a novel high-precision, low background technique called Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) to detect the deca