The Yale RHI Group is graduating Ph.D. students and will have openings for 2 to 4 new graduate students over the next two years, starting immediately. The group consists of two teaching faculty and one adjunct faculty, along with 4 postdoctoral fellows and presently five Ph.D. students. Each summer we also have a couple of Yale undergraduate students working in the group.

There are also opportunities for theory graduate students in the group.

The goal of our research is to form and study a new state of matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). The research is experimental and at the forefront of science (see recent press). Present work (and future upgrades) focus on the STAR experiment at the RHIC collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)on Long Island (New York) and on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). STAR has been in operation since the year 2000 and ALICE will commence operation next year.

The group is actively involved in data-taking and analysis in STAR. We are also pursuing research and development on new detectors for nuclear and particle physics. The group will assemble, test and calibrate a new electromagnetic calorimeter at Yale for installation in ALICE at CERN, and is involved in simulations for physics with heavy ions at the LHC. New graduate students can expect to work with hardware and software at Yale and on either or both of these experiments. These opportunities provide students with a breadth of knowledge preparing them for a range of jobs upon graduation.

For more information, please contact Professor John Harris.