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-26-0547
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Probing quantum information with the top quark at the LHC
Contract
Thèse
Job description
This PhD project aims to explore the quantum nature of top-quark pair production at the Large Hadron Collider by studying spin correlations and entanglement-related observables in data recorded by the ATLAS experiment. The recent breakthrough observations of entanglement in top-antitop events have opened an entirely new window onto the quantum structure of fundamental interactions, transforming the LHC into a machine to test quantum information at the TeV scale. Building on this momentum, the thesis will focus on reconstructing the quantum state of top-quark pairs using ATLAS Run-3 data, with particular attention to the extraction of spin correlations and entanglement-sensitive observables in challenging high-momentum topologies. By improving reconstruction strategies and carefully assessing detector effects, the aim is to measure quantum properties with good precision and to contribute to understand what quantum information can bring us to our understanding of elementary particles.
University / doctoral school
PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2026
Person to be contacted by the applicant
DELIOT Frédéric
frederic.deliot@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA-Saclay
Irfu/DPhP
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
0169086424
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
DELIOT Frédéric
frederic.deliot@cern.ch
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA-Saclay
Irfu/DPhP
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
0169086424
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