Thesis opportunities
Start your thesis where the detector is being built.
CYGNO is entering a decisive phase: CYGNO04 construction, rare-event detector operations, reconstruction, simulation, analysis, and physics interpretation are moving together now. Motivated Master and PhD students can join real detector work with a visible path from hardware or code to physics results.
Build
Assemble optical TPC hardware, gas lines, field cages, sensors, services, and calibration setups while learning how detector choices become measured performance.
Operate
Join commissioning and data-taking shifts, learn slow control, safety procedures, calibrations, and the discipline required to run a rare-event search detector.
Reconstruct
Turn camera images and PMT information into energy, 3D position, track direction, particle identification, and background rejection variables.
Simulate
Model detector response, optical readout, radioactive backgrounds, low-energy recoils, neutrino signals, and sensitivity scenarios.
Analyze
Build selections, validate calibrations, compare data with simulation, use machine-learning tools, and quantify uncertainties before a physics result is claimed.
Discover
Connect detector performance to dark matter, solar neutrino, CEvNS, and X-ray polarimetry opportunities, with results that can feed papers and conference talks.