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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:20:24 -0500
From: Harry W. K. Cheung <cheung@fnal.gov>
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Subject: Stanford University Position (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 08:03:44 -0500
From: phy_mail <phy_mail@fsgi02>
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Subject: Stanford University Position

Dear Colleague,

Please post the following information about a postdoctoral position on
CDMS at Stanford. Also, please inform potential candidates that you know.

Thanks, Blas Cabrera

*************

        Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Particle Astrophysics

                          at STANFORD UNIVERSITY

The Department of Physics at Stanford University is inviting applications
for a postdoctoral research position to participate in a search for dark
matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles - the CDMS
(cryogenic dark matter search) experiment. The position is a three year
position for candidates who have received their Ph. D.'s within the past
year. The multi-institutional collaboration (UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC
Santa Barbara, LBNL, Fermilab, Case Western Reserve U, Santa Clara U,
Princeton, NIST and U Colorado Denver) has been operating cryogenic
detectors for the past three years at a shallow site on the Stanford
Campus - SUF (Stanford Underground Facility), and has recently set a new
upper limit which is not compatible with the signal suggested by the DAMA
collaboration (arXiv:astro-ph/0002471). The detectors are fabricated in
the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) from crystals of Ge and Si.
They are operated at a temperature below 0.1 K using dilution
refrigerators and employ the simultaneous readout of fast phonon and
ionization signals for event by event discrimination of nuclear recoils
(WIMPs and neutrons) from electron recoils (x-ray and gamma backgrounds).
The experiment is currently at the forefront of sensitivity for WIMPs and
is entering the region where there are excellent WIMP candidates from
models of supersymmetry - the favorite extension to the Standard Model of
particle physics. The six-year deep-site version of the experiment, called
CDMS-II has been funded and will be operated in the Soudan mine in
northern Minnesota. The research will take place primarily on the Stanford
Campus with some trips to UC Berkeley and to the Soudan mine. It is useful
but not essential for applicants to have experience with cryogenics and
dilution refrigerators, or low radioactive backgrounds, or particle
physics Monte Carlo techniques with such programs as GEANT, MICA, etc.
Interested applicants are requested to send three letters of reference and
a resum to: Prof. Blas Cabrera, Physics Department, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-4060, or by email to: cabrera@stanford.edu.
Applications will be accepted until May 31, 2000, or until the position is
filled. Stanford University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action
employer. We are especially interested in receiving applications from
female and minority physicists.