Postdoctoral position Lyon (France) - CMS/FCC

(Postdoc - 24 months):

The candidate will work within the CMS group (the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the CERN LHC) at IP2I-Lyon. He/she will play a key role in the CMS data analyzes, carried by the group in the field of the Higgs sector. He/she will also contribute to the performance study and development of complete simulations of future trackers as part of the FCC accelerator project at CERN.

The selected candidate is expected to be primarily (70%) involved in the study of the HH→ bb𝛾𝛾 channel, initiated by the IP2I team, which presents excellent sensitivity to the HH production of the Standard Model and to the Higgs self-coupling. IP2I effort has focused on analyzing data from LHC Run 3 where it has confirmed its leadership role in the analysis within CMS. The postdoctoral fellow together with the IP2I group will play a leading role in the effort to finalize this analysis using the full Run 3 data sample (which should be complete in November 2025) and to prepare the final publication.

The postdoctoral fellow will also be involved at 30% of his/her time in tracking studies for the FCC project at CERN. Current studies ongoing at IP2I are in relation with R&D development in electronics and detector integration. These include the development and validation of digitization software in full simulation, and corresponding tracking-detector performance studies.

Skills:

Applicants must hold a PhD in particle physics with a maximum experience of 3 years post-thesis.

Additional competencies are required:

• Solid experience in collider data analysis
• Expertise in HEP software tools and common programming languages, experience in developing and/or maintaining data analysis platforms
• Fluency in English

A previous experience in instrumentation would be desirable

Application procedure

The target start is October 1st 2024, subject to negotiation with the candidate.

The deadline for applications is Aug 31, 2024.

Application files must be sent by email to Gaëlle Boudoul (Gaelle.Boudoul@cern.ch) and Maxime Gouzevitch (mgouzevi@ipnl.in2p3.fr) with the documents below:

• A curriculum vitae
• A list of publications to which the applicant has made a major contribution, with a brief description of the applicant's contributions to each of the publications listed.
• A description of current research activities and research interests (no more than 2 pages).

In addition, applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same email addresses by the same date: Maxime Gouzevitch (mgouzevi@ipnl.in2p3.fr), and Gaelle Boudoul (Gaelle.Boudoul@cern.ch)