Doctor of Philosophy in Physics - Particle Physics

University College Dublin

The School of Physics at UCD is a leading centre for research and teaching in physics, with a strong international reputation. The UCD School of Physics is consistently highly ranked in both national and international tables.There are about 50 graduate research students in the school, most of whom are pursuing PhD programmes and many of whom are from outside Ireland. The academic staff make up a dynamic, international group researching across a wide range of disciplines within Physics.Access to large-scale experiments at CERN is provided. Research includes top-quark and Higgs-boson physics with CMS at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, building the LHCb detector and measuring Z and W cross-sections at 7 TeV to 1, and testing the Standard Model to 1 from the ratio of ZW cross-sections. For more information, please contact Martin Gruenewald and Ronan McNulty.Research The Experimental Particle Physics group was established at UCD in 2002 to study particle interactions at the highest possible collision energies, thus exploring new areas in fundamental physics never seen before. This work is carried out within international collaborations of scientists, operating large detectors at particle colliders such as those at Fermilab near Chicago, USA, and at CERN the European Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva, Switzerland.