The ZEUS experimental group at McGill has positions available for graduate studies (M.Sc. and/or Ph.D.) and would strongly encourage all interested to apply to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research for information on admission at the University.

The ZEUS experiment at the particle accelerator HERA is located at the reseach center DESY in Hamburg, Germany. HERA collides 27.5 GeV electrons or positrons with 920 GeV protons and thus offers a unique window opportunity into point-probing the very structure of matter. ZEUS is an international collaboration of 51 institutes from 12 countries. The first data taking has started in 1992. In 2000, a luminosity upgrade of the accelerator will increase 5-fold the investigation power of the experiment, which is then scheduled to run at least up to year 2005.

Important processes are continuously under active study by the ZEUS collaboration, including the structure functions of the proton in deep inelastic scattering, the interactions of the photon in photoproduction, numerous QCD phenomena and searches for new forms of interactions. The McGill group in ZEUS is currently involved in jets physics, strangeness production, determination of the gluon density of the proton from charm, open beauty, etc.., whereby "strange", "charm" and "beauty" are but three of the 6 fondamental quarks, the constituents of matter.

The McGill group in ZEUS participates in the daily operations of the detector, from maintaining it, taking data, monitoring, software developing and organizing, analyzing, etc.. up to the publication of the end results. The group is also specifically responsible for the laser calibration task of the main calorimeter systems, their maintenance and running and the operation of the forward neutron calorimeter.

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