Organisation/Company: Swansea University
Department: Central Research
Field: Physics » Mathematical physics
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Positions: PhD Positions
Country: United Kingdom
Application Deadline: 25 Feb 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/London)
Type of Contract: Temporary
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 35
Offer Starting Date: 1 Oct 2025
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
Theories with orthogonal and symplectic group offer a new theoretical environment to address open problems in fundamental physics. Applications encompass electroweak symmetry breaking, mass generation, dark matter, and the relic density of stochastic gravitational waves, STFC challenges in Frontier Physics.
The TELOS collaboration, co-led by researchers at Swansea University and The University of Edinburgh, plays a central role in the study of such theories.
We developed state-of-the-art (open source) software working on GPU- and CPU-based supercomputing architectures, and secured computing resources from UK-based as well as international supercomputing facilities. The research programme is now entering its mature development phase, where high precision measurements of new observables have become possible. The candidate will be allocated a research project in lattice field theory, tailored around their scientific skills and ambitions, addressing one or more of the aforementioned challenges in frontier physics.
The student will join this world-leading research programme, performing numerical studies of new strongly coupled field theories, taking advantage of supercomputing resources at facilities based in Swansea, in the United Kingdom, and overseas. The student will perform the first extended, high precision numerical study of such models, computing their spectroscopy and phase structure, and benchmarking phenomenological applications at the crossover between particle physics and astrophysics.
This joint PhD programme is co-hosted, co-financed, and co-supervised between Swansea University and The University of Edinburgh. A mobility programme will allow the student to take advantage of scientific and training opportunities available at both institutions. They will join a vibrant, diverse, international community, with an established record of delivering excellence in research, training, and student supervision, and with an extended international network of research collaborations, based at the Particle Physics and Cosmology Theory group at Swansea University, as well as at the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics at The University of Edinburgh.
We encourage interested candidates to submit a formal application to both studentships.
IELTS 6.5 Overall (with no individual component below 6.0) or Swansea University recognised equivalent.
Additional Information
This scholarship covers the full cost of tuition fees and an annual stipend at UKRI rate (currently £19,237 for 2024/25).
Additional research expenses of up to £1,000 per year will also be available.
Eligibility Criteria
The Scholarship is open to UK and international fee eligible applicants.
Please see our website for more information.
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