Position ID: | FNAL-Accelerator Division-ADPRA1 [#20609] |
Position Title: | Postdoctoral Research Associate - High Power Targetry R&D |
Position Type: | Postdoctoral |
Position Location: | Batavia, Illinois 60510, United States [map] |
Subject Area: | Physics |
Appl Deadline: | 2022/02/20 11:59PM finished (2021/11/23, finished 2022/08/27, listed until 2022/02/20) |
Position Description: |
Open Date: November 23, 2021 Close: February 20, 2022 We Are: Fermilab is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics
and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. We support
discovery science experiments in Illinois and at locations around the world,
including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in
Arizona and Chile, and the South Pole. We are strategic risk takers, innovators, and collaborators. We
are engineers, scientists, technicians, administrative professionals. We are
1,800 employees advancing knowledge for the benefit of humankind. Fermilab has
been at the forefront of particle physics for more than 40 years. We build
world-leading accelerators and detectors to conduct some of the most advanced
particle physics experiments possible. We collect and analyze the data from
those experiments with some of the most powerful computers in the world. We
conduct this research on a 6,800-acre prairie, 35 miles outside Chicago, a
treasure that has been designated a National Environmental Research Park. The Acceleration Division/Target Systems Department
is seeking highly qualified candidates for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to
join the Fermilab team on High Power Targetry Research and Development. The
main portion of the appointment will be to support the radiation damage studies
of materials used for high power particle-beam targets. The candidate will
develop models of target materials to better understand the fundamental
radiation damage mechanisms. It will involve multi-scale modeling of
radiation-induced defects in graphite and metallic alloys, as well as
understanding of the interactions between defects and interfaces. The
successful candidate will also have the opportunity to characterize irradiated
materials experimentally to support and validate the development and
predictions of the models. The candidate will also have the opportunity to
participate in the operations and research of Fermilab beam experiments.
Another part of the appointment will be to investigate alternative methods to
assess radiation damage in target material such as using low energy heavy ions
or electrons to “mimic” the irradiation conditions at Fermilab with high energy
proton irradiations and open the way for faster, less expensive, and safer
irradiation method to explore candidate materials for future high intensity
target facilities. The person hired in this position will join the Accelerator
Division’s Target System Department (TSD - targets.fnal.gov)
– High Power Targetry R&D group, which is involved in supporting the
R&D program for current and future target facilities at Fermilab: NuMI and
LBNF. He/she actively participate in the research collaboration with the
Computational Materials Group in the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Computational
Materials Group – UW–Madison (wisc.edu)). TSD is an integrated department, consisting of physicists,
engineers, and technicians; value differences that embody principles of
diversity and inclusion. You will join a group of people dedicated to their
work and actively involved in new areas of research. This position is a three-year, term appointment with the
possibility of renewal based upon satisfactory job performance. You Will
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