Summer
student program
This is information for students who would be interested in spending their summer vacation at a European laboratory for particle/nuclear physics.
The Group for Experimental Particle Physics (EPF) is involved in experiments at CERN, The European Laboratory for particle and nuclear physics near Geneva, and at DESY, Deutches Elektronen Synchtron in Hamburg. The EPF group would like to help and support students who are interested in applying for a stipend to spend a couple a months at one of these laboratories during the summer recess.
Both laboratories offer unique opportunities for students to learn about experimental techniques in particle and nuclear physics involving a variety of detectors and sensors for particles and radiation, data-acquisition systems and data-analysis. The laboratories house a series of accelerators feeding particles/ nuclei onto targets or making particles from two accelerators to collide head on to produce new particles and radiation which are observed in complex sets of detectors as e.g. high space resolution semi- conductors, gas chambers, calorimeters, Cherenkov counters etc. The electrical signals from the detectors are handled by Data Acquisition systems before being stored, read and analysed using software tools incorporating mathematical and statistical methods and physical models.
The experimental programs at CERN and at DESY are comparable. However, it is worth mentioning that DESY has a unique facility in a high intensity synchrotron source for mapping e.g. organic molecules, perhaps in the near future down to the size of proteins.
During their 2 months stay the students will benefit from lectures in experimental techniques, in theoretical physics and in radiation enviromental problems. Those awarded stipends will be allocated to an experimental team and be taken care of by a tutor.
The EPF Group encourages students at "hovedfag"-level to take contact with the group if interested in spending some of their summer vacation at one of these international laboratories where they will meet students from all over Europe.
http://www.fys.uio.no/epf/summer_students.html
