Postdoc position in Nuclear Reaction Modelling

General context:

The envisaged increase of the Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) intensities (by several orders of magnitude compared to presently existing facilities) means a drastic increase of the radioactive inventory and corresponding radioprotection related issues. Safety aspects of the future RIB production targets will become decisive in limiting the beam intensities, in selecting the production method and materials, and in the final cost of the facility. New technical challenges arise that will in most cases also critically affect the safety approval procedures. The handling and disposal of open radioactive high intensity RIB production targets is yet unexplored. Equally, containment of gaseous radioactivity and its migration will be crucial in the same context. Within the EURISOL Design Study project (6th PCRD framework) our laboratory is coordinating the "Safety and radioprotection" work package, in which the proposed task aims in providing with quantitative evaluations of the major safety and radioprotection questions for the design of the future generation European RIB facility.

Description of research:

In the above context the candidate will employ multi-particle transport and material activation codes as MCNPX, PHITS, DCHAIN, CINDER'90 etc. to model the reference EURISOL DS beams, geometry and materials. The iterative optimization study should be carried out in order to minimize the radiation fields and activation of materials along the primary beam lines, the RIB production target in particular, including post-accelerator and experimental areas. Finally, some recommendations will be formulated on the shielding characteristics, choice of materials and design options for the future construction of the facility. The results at all stages of the work will be published as scientific reports or/and conference proceedings. In addition, the candidate will be asked to develop and maintain a web page related to this work package.

Requirements:

Recent PhD in nuclear physics; good knowledge of high energy hadron and heavy ion reaction models and their implementation in Monte Carlo transport codes would be an advantage
Availability starting from 1 January 2007 for the temporary contract of 1 year + 1 year

Documents requested for selection:

A short letter of motivation
CV with the list of publications
2 letters of recommendation

Deadline:

15 October 2006

Contact:

D. Ridikas