DOE/INFN Summer Exchange Program for 2011

10th Edition

INFN GENOA SITE

 

 

The US Department of Energy (DoE) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics - Italy (INFN) announce the 2011 edition of the Summer Exchange Program, dedicated to the exchange of US and Italian students in science and engineering.

Students are offered the possibility to work on projects which will further their experience in the areas of science and technology that are relevant for their academic training.

Research activities in Genoa are pursued in all major INFN areas of interest: Particle Physics, Astroparticle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Theoretical Physics and Detector Physics.
Several groups are participating in experimental programs in collaboration with US institutions.
 

Candidates must be enrolled as students at a US university and they must have begun, at the time of application, at least the third year of a US University curriculum in physics, engineering or computing science. They can join a team at Genoa for approximately 8 weeks between June 1st and October 31th, 2011.

Opportunities include participation in physics analysis activities of running experiments as well as involvement in detector developments.

The 2 available positions in Genoa are the following:

 

2 positions: JLAB12 experiment

JLAB12 includes the Italian activity with CLAS at Jefferson Lab. We do experiments with electron and photon beams impinging on hydrogen, deuterium and nuclear targets. Our projects include: the measurement of semiinclusive pion electroproduction to derive information about factorization at low momentum transfer and the behavior of fracture functions as a more general description of semiinclusive scattering; the measurement of polarized electron scattering off a polarized proton target at momentum transfers as low as 0.01 GeV2/c2 to verify the predictions of chiral perturbation theory; the measurement of photoproduction reactions on the proton to search for exotic mesons. Our group has been heavily involved in hardware projects, conduction of experiments at JLab and data analysis. In particular there is the opportunity to contribute to our projects for the JLab 12 GeV upgrade that include the construction of an electromagnetic calorimeter for the Fortward Tagger of CLAS12.

For further information see: http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/clas12/

Tutor: Marco Battaglieri (marco.battaglieri@ge.infn.it <mailto:marco.battaglieri@ge.infn.it>)

Recommended period: June - July

 

To apply, please fill the application form explaining your interests in physics, or computer science along with curriculum vitae with your educational and work experience. The deadline for applications is ...................

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