Physicist (f/m/d) 60% part-time

Area of research:

Scientific / postdoctoral posts

Part-Time Suitability:

The position is suitable for part-time employment.

Starting date:

15.03.2024

Job description:

Your area of responsibility essentially comprises

• Participation in the operation of the tritium loops and the relevant analytics within the measurement phases of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Mass Experiment KATRIN
• Determination of the systematic errors in the source area, in particular the errors of the gas composition within the source
• Conducting test experiments on an atomic hydrogen source to develop analytics for the characterisation of a hydrogen or tritium atomic beam
• Determination of the atomic fraction as well as the beam geometry and beam kinetics
• Development and characterisation of beam cooling (< 80 K) for an atomic tritium source
• Implementation of beam analysis and beam cooling in the Atomic Tritium Source experiment currently under construction
• Analysing the data, processing, publishing and presenting the results.

This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation.