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Welcome to the department of physics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

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Monte-Carlo simulation of a Higgs boson event as it will be reconstructed in the CMS detector at the LHC, CERN. The 4 Tesla magnetic field will bend low momentum tracks from background and underlying events strongly whereas the high momentum decay particles from Higgs bosons or other new phenomena would appear clearly above any background. The Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik has been contributing significantly to the construction of the detector and the preparation of data analysis.

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Job Opening

There is an opening for a professorship (W3) in Theoretical Astroparticle Physics. Candidates with broad scientific competence and innovative research spanning the areas of astrophysics, elementary particle physics or cosmology will be considered.

Job Opening

There is an opening for a professorship (W3) in Theoretical Atmospheric Physics at the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing (IMK-ASF). We are looking for excellent candidates with very good international credentials in numerical modelling.

Job Opening

There is an opening for a professorship (W3) in Theoretical Solid State Physics at the Institut für Festkörperphysik. The research focus of the successful candidate should be the theory of optical properties of solid state systems and/or quantum optics.

Job Opening

There is an opening for a professorship (W3) in Theoretical Particle Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics. We seek an excellent scientist working on the phenomenology of elementary particles. The successful candidate shall in particular use the expected results of the LHC and modern precision experiments to explore new laws of nature within and beyond the Standard Model of elementary particle physics.