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Graduate Studies in Neutrino Oscillation with the T2K Experiment

The Department of Physics at the University of Regina
(www.phys.uregina.ca) invites applicants for graduate studies leading to
MSc or PhD degree in Experimental Particle Physics. 

The emphases of our Department are nuclear, particle and high energy
physics. As a result of this deliberate selection and focusing of
efforts, we are able to ensure that each student receives the best
possible education, and faculty are able to give personalized
instruction in a encouraging and productive environment. Faculty members
and graduate students pursue their research locally, and at locations
elsewhere in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. The Department
is an associate member of the TRIUMF subatomic physics laboratory in
Vancouver, is an institutional member of the Institute of Particle
Physics in Canada and has a close relationship with the Jefferson
Laboratory in Virginia, USA. 

One of the most outstanding problems yet to be fully understood is that
of the properties of the neutrinos. Once believed to be massless
particles, recent observations have proven that neutrinos do have mass.
These observations have implications in several areas from cosmology to
e lementary particle physics. A direct consequence of assigning mass to
neutrinos is that these particles can oscillate between different
neutrino flavors (electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino). 

Our Department is a member of the T2K international project, a long
baseline neutrino experiment in Japan aiming at measuring some of these
oscillations with unprecedented accuracy, and some of the neutrino
properties for the first time. Our interests range from detector
development to physics simulations for T2K. You will be involved in many
aspects of neutrino physics and have the opportunity to play a leading
role in establishing a test bench for detector R&D and in developing
techniques for quality control of some parts of the T2K detector in
Regina. 

The Department has a financial support policy for its graduate students,
which may be exceeded by the research supervisor, depending on the
academic status of the student and the program year. 

For additional information, please visit www.phys.uregina.ca/grad/ or
contact: 

Graduate Program:
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Physics
University of Regina
Regina, SK, S4S 0A2 Canada
grad(at)phys.uregina.ca

Research Program:
Dr. Mauricio Barbi, barbi@uregina.ca

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