Field of Interest:quant-ph
Experiments:HAYSTAC
Deadline: 2017-06-15
Region: North America
Job description:
HAYSTAC Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Physics at Yale’s Wright Laboratory
There is an immediate opening in the Yale University Department of Physics’ Wright Laboratory for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to play a major and possibly leading role in the HAYSTAC (Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion Cold (dark matter)) experiment. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Yale University, and the Heising-Simons Foundation, this experiment includes an ongoing effort to develop and transition to innovative new technologies that will advance microwave cavity searches for dark matter, in the form of axions, to higher mass ranges. Such innovations include the development of superconducting and novel geometry radiofrequency cavities, and sub-quantum limited detection based on squeezed-vacuum state receivers and bolometers. The HAYSTAC first-generation detector has been commissioned and began data-taking in Jan. 2016. Planned major upgrades, including moving the experiment to a new Blue Fors dilution refrigerator and the incorporation of a squeezed state detection system, are scheduled for Summer and Fall 2017.
REQUIRED qualifications of the successful candidate include: Expertise in low-temperature physics techniques especially experience with the use of cryogen-free dilution refrigerator systems; Expertise with quantum electronics including JPAs, cavity QED, and/or SQUID magnetometry; Experience with low-noise RF microwave technology and test equipment (including HEMT amplifiers, transmission line assembly, and network analyzers); Experience with data acquisition systems, specifically and necessarily LabView as used in instrument control through Ethernet, GPIB and serial ports, and in the acquisition of large data sets.
DESIRED start date: On or within one week of July 5, 2017.
DESIRED qualifications: Signal processing and analysis experience together with experience with large databases; Training in machine shop use.
Please submit your CV and bibliography with contact information of two references to Professor Steven Lamoreaux (steve.lamoreaux@yale.edu) preferably by June 15, 2017; the position will remain open until filled, and is pending renewal of funding. Yale University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
More Information:lamoreauxgroup.yale.edu
Experiments:HAYSTAC
Deadline: 2017-06-15
Region: North America
Job description:
HAYSTAC Axion Dark Matter Experiment: Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Physics at Yale’s Wright Laboratory
There is an immediate opening in the Yale University Department of Physics’ Wright Laboratory for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to play a major and possibly leading role in the HAYSTAC (Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion Cold (dark matter)) experiment. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Yale University, and the Heising-Simons Foundation, this experiment includes an ongoing effort to develop and transition to innovative new technologies that will advance microwave cavity searches for dark matter, in the form of axions, to higher mass ranges. Such innovations include the development of superconducting and novel geometry radiofrequency cavities, and sub-quantum limited detection based on squeezed-vacuum state receivers and bolometers. The HAYSTAC first-generation detector has been commissioned and began data-taking in Jan. 2016. Planned major upgrades, including moving the experiment to a new Blue Fors dilution refrigerator and the incorporation of a squeezed state detection system, are scheduled for Summer and Fall 2017.
REQUIRED qualifications of the successful candidate include: Expertise in low-temperature physics techniques especially experience with the use of cryogen-free dilution refrigerator systems; Expertise with quantum electronics including JPAs, cavity QED, and/or SQUID magnetometry; Experience with low-noise RF microwave technology and test equipment (including HEMT amplifiers, transmission line assembly, and network analyzers); Experience with data acquisition systems, specifically and necessarily LabView as used in instrument control through Ethernet, GPIB and serial ports, and in the acquisition of large data sets.
DESIRED start date: On or within one week of July 5, 2017.
DESIRED qualifications: Signal processing and analysis experience together with experience with large databases; Training in machine shop use.
Please submit your CV and bibliography with contact information of two references to Professor Steven Lamoreaux (steve.lamoreaux@yale.edu) preferably by June 15, 2017; the position will remain open until filled, and is pending renewal of funding. Yale University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
More Information:lamoreauxgroup.yale.edu