Student Opportunities

    The University of Texas at Austin Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics group is presently searching for outstanding graduate students who are interested in conducting experimental physics research at a major new facility, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York.

    Following the required course work and admission to Ph.D. candidacy, the student may have the option of conducting research on-site at BNL or in Austin.  All students will be working on the STAR experiment involving the analysis of STAR data and the associated physics research (see STAR Physics Results, or the more accessible STAR Lite) as part of his/her Ph.D. thesis. 

    STAR began taking data in Summer 2000 and, at present, has published 41 papers in refereed journals, including 27 in Physical Review Letters (see STAR's publications).  The student will be able to immediately begin analyzing data, and will have the opportunity to become involved in the hardware aspects of the experiment.

    For more information, contact:
       Dr. Jerry Hoffmann
       Office: RLM 10.308
       Phone: (512) 471-1769
       Email: hoffmann@physics.utexas.edu
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