PhD on ATLAS, Mainz University Germany

The Mainz ATLAS group has an opening for a PhD position to be filled
immediately. With the startup of the LHC in 2009, students joining our
group now will be able to participate in the hunt for the Higgs boson
and for new physics at the LHC, as well as development of high-speed
electronics for the SLHC upgrade of the ATLAS L1 trigger.
Opportunities for a thesis in physics analysis exist in the areas of
searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson, SUSY Higgs bosons and
SUSY particles, with particular focus on extracting physics from the
early ATLAS data. Close collaboration with the Mainz DØ group ensures
the transfer of experience from working on similar analyses at a
running hadron collider experiment. Students will have the opportunity
for regular extended visits to CERN to contribute to the commissioning
of the ATLAS experiment. For more information or to apply please
contact Prof. V. Büscher (buescher@uni-mainz.de). PhD students can
expect to receive a salary corresponding to E13/2 (net salary roughly
1000 Euro per month). No prior knowledge of German is required.