General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-25-0158
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Development of an X-ray detection system for particle ID of superheavy nuclei
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The synthesis and study of the superheavy nuclei (SHN) is still one of the major challenges of modern nuclear physics. Experimental studies of hitherto unknown nuclei depend crucially on their identification in terms of atomic charge Z and nuclear mass A. To complete particle ID capabilities of the separator-spectrometer set-up S3 at GANIL-SPIRAL2, already providing a mass resolution sufficient to resolve the A of SHN, its focal plane detection system SIRIUS will be provided with X-ray detection for Z identification of the species of interest. The development of an X-ray detection system array, employing thin germanium crystals with thin entrance windows (based on so-called Low-Energy Photon Spectrometers (LEPS)), its integration in the SIRIUS set-up as well as its in-beam test and use for SHN decay spectroscopy will be the main tasks of the Ph.D. thesis. The Ph.D. student will be involved in SHN spectroscopic studies at GANIL and international accelerator laboratories like ANL, which serve as efficient preparation of the experiment campaigns planned at S3 which is scheduled to come online in 2024. This Ph.D. thesis work is an important ingredient for the preparation of the detection instrumentation needed for the S3 operation.
University / doctoral school
Physique, Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Matériaux, Énergie (PSIME)
Caen
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
PIOT Julien
julien.piot@ganil.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU//GANIL
GANIL
Boulevard H Becquerel
BP 55027
14076 caen cedex 5
0231454644
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
ACKERMANN Dieter
dieter.ackermann@ganil.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU//GANIL
GANIL
Boulevard H Becquerel
BP 55027
14076 caen cedex 5
0231454742
En savoir plus
https://www.ganil-spiral2.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/X-SHN-thesis2025.pdf