We are opening a position for a motivated candidate
who would be sharing his/her interests between technical developments
for the production of Radioactive Ion Beams (RIBs) and the physics
program being pursued at GANIL.
Since 2001, SPIRAL at GANIL has been delivering radioactive
ion beams from gaseous elements of unique intensity and purity for
physics experiments. Very recently, a project of upgrade was formed
to complement the future SPIRAL 2 radioactive ion beam production
capabilities. The SPIRAL upgrade project essentially consists in the
development a 1+ to n+ charge breeding system which will permit the
post-acceleration of metallic elements produced in heavy ion fragmentation
by combining state of the art ion sources such as a FEBIAD developed
at CERN-ISOLDE and a Phoenix ECR charge breeder developed by LPSC
Grenoble. These technical developments are expected to translate rapidly
to new opportunities for physics. These latter include physics with
non - accelerated beams as a precursor to physics at the planned DESIR
facility, or experiments using post-accelerated beams studying various
aspects of nuclear structure, reactions of astrophysics relevance
and reaction mechanisms.
The position has a duration of 3 years and has to
start at latest on 1st of October this year. It is intended for candidates
with a PhD thesis with less than 6 years of postdoctoral experience.
More information is available on request from Pierre Delahaye: delahaye@ganil.fr.
Interested candidates should apply before 30th
of July sending a CV and a letter of motivation to Pierre
Delahaye: delahaye@ganil.fr.
July 12, 2010