PHD POSITION

PhD in experimental physics: how do you make the first antimatter molecule?

Deadline: 28 Feb 2027 · 108 days left

Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
City: Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands
Field: Physics and astronomy
Type: PhD position
Deadline: 28 Feb 2027 · 108 days left

About this position

When a proton meets a hydrogen atom, the pair can emit a photon and stay together as H₂⁺. This is how the first molecules formed after the Big Bang, and it is one of the proposed routes to the first antimatter molecule, yet it has never been measured. In the NWO Vidi project SAMURAI, you will study these collisions one quantum state at a time: instead of colliding atoms, we use lasers to prepare a hydrogen molecule at the moment of a collision and watch it fall apart. You will be part of a small group in which experiment and theory go hand in hand. Your duties excite H₂ with two tunable extrem

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Applications close on 28 Feb 2027 (108 days from today). Apply on the official page; PhD Atlas does not collect applications.

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Official call: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/365005/phd-in-experimental-physics-how-do-you-make-the-first-antimatter-molecule

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