Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) Areas of research: Physics. Location: Paterna (Valencia) Website: http://ific.uv.es; Contact: Juan.Zuniga@ific.uv.es; s8a.postdoc@ific.uv.es
The IFIC is a joint centre of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Valencia, devoted to research in Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics and its applications to other fields of Science and Technology. IFIC covers both the theoretical and experimental aspects of these fields. Among its goals are the study of the Higgs boson, the top quark, the search for new particles and theoretical models, the study of the neutrino properties and their use as cosmic messengers, the research on nuclear physics and its applications, as well as the development of technology for new particle detectors and accelerators. Starting back in the 1950s, IFIC is nowadays a pioneering centre in Spain in research of the constituents of matter. It is placed in the city of Valencia, one of the main Spanish cities overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. In 2015, IFIC was awarded with the ‘Severo Ochoa’ accreditation as centre of excellence in recognition of its outstanding performance and scientific contributions at national and international level, its impact at industrial and social level, and the ability to attract scientific talent. IFIC carries out its experimental research associated to large laboratories such as CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) and other international research infrastructures, present or planned, such as KM3NeT or FAIR –both included in the ESFRI Roadmap– and in Spanish scientific infrastructures such as the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). IFIC also has a lively programme of activities in knowledge transfer and applications, in particular related to medical and accelerator physics. IFIC’s main research lines are: • Experimental Physics: Concerning Physics at colliders, IFIC has been involved in the design, construction and operation of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the Higgs boson was discovered. In addition to measuring the Higgs boson properties, researchers from IFIC lead the study of the heaviest discovered particle, the top quark, searching as well for new physics phenomena. IFIC also participates in the LHCb and MoEDAL experiments at LHC, and contributes to the distributed computing network (GRID) for the LHC and other scientific activities. IFIC participates in the future International Linear Collider 66 II. Mathemathics, Experimental Sciences and Engineering
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