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Thesis opportunities<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

Start your thesis where the detector is being built.<\/h2>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

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.<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

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Ask about a thesis<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
Meet the team<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t
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\"Students\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>

Build<\/h3>

Assemble optical TPC hardware, gas lines, field cages, sensors, services, and calibration setups while learning how detector choices become measured performance.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

\"Researcher\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>

Operate<\/h3>

Join commissioning and data-taking shifts, learn slow control, safety procedures, calibrations, and the discipline required to run a rare-event search detector.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

\"Track\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>

Reconstruct<\/h3>

Turn camera images and PMT information into energy, 3D position, track direction, particle identification, and background rejection variables.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

\"Stacked\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>

Simulate<\/h3>

Model detector response, optical readout, radioactive backgrounds, low-energy recoils, neutrino signals, and sensitivity scenarios.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

\"Machine-learning\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>

Analyze<\/h3>

Build selections, validate calibrations, compare data with simulation, use machine-learning tools, and quantify uncertainties before a physics result is claimed.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t

\"Dark\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>

Discover<\/h3>

Connect detector performance to dark matter, solar neutrino, CEvNS, and X-ray polarimetry opportunities, with results that can feed papers and conference talks.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/727\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.infn.it\/cygnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}