Overview
By joining our research group, you will be following in the footsteps of our celebrated emeritus professor, Peter Higgs, whose groundbreaking Higgs mechanism has excited the world of physics for decades and has been the focus of operations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
You will also have the opportunity to confer and work with some of the greatest minds in physics today, through our links with leading conferences and international facilities.
Our research group works in two areas: Theory and Experiment.
Studentship opportunities
The Particle Physics group from The University of Edinburgh offers prospective PhD students exciting opportunities to study at the very frontier of understanding. Fully funded studentships are available for a wide range of theoretical and experimental projects, plus opportunities to travel to CERN for long and short visits.
Programme Structure
Particle Physics – Theory
- This research concerns fundamental physics at all energy scales, from hadronic binding energy to the massive forces at play in the first instants of the universe’s existence.
- We collaborate with leading facilities, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the WMAP and Planck satellites.
- Our current research explores developments in both perturbative and non-perturbative field theory, renormalization theory and the application of quantum theory to other branches of physics, such as turbulence theory and condensed matter systems.
- We look to understand the fundamental particles of nature and the interactions that govern their behaviour.
- In particular, from understanding the symmetries present in the universe, we seek to explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter, and mechanisms of symmetry-breaking that led to the creation of mass via the Higgs boson and non-Standard Model particles.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Disciplines
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Other requirements
General requirements
- A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in physics.
Tuition Fee
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31500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 31500 GBP per year during 36 months.
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Scholarships Information
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