LHC Collider The LHC collider will recreate energies that existed one billionth of a second after the Big Bang, when the universe was about the size of a football. We want to understand how the fundamental forces and building blocks of matter behave. In preparation for first collisions in late 2007, we have been helping prepare the LHCb detector for physics. We are involved with the trigger, the silicon detector, and Grid computing while also preparing for physics analyses that will test how the electroweak force behaves and examine the internal workings of the proton, looking at how the quarks and gluons within are arranged.

Opportunities We always have opportunities for students who wish to work in our group while studying for a Ph.D. If you are interested, get in touch for more information, or come visit us in the School of Physics at UCD.

Vacancies for post-grads and post-docs to start September 2007 We have openings for a Ph.D. position starting in the academic year September 2007 and postdocs to work on the visualisation of data for the LHCb experiment and on elements of Data-Grid computing related to the accessing and 'mining' of data on the Grid, and the scheduling of analysis jobs [Job description].

For more information, please contact Ronan McNulty.