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HZDR develops and operates two high-intensity lasers as drivers for plasma-based accelerators—a novel concept for compact sources that deliver ultra-short pulses of high-energy ions and electrons. We experimentally investigate plasma-based acceleration from the physical fundamentals to applications, for example, for free-electron lasers, as particle sources for radiobiological studies, or for neutron sources.
A variety of detectors are used for the characterization and optimization of plasma acceleration. The focus is on implementing and optimizing data analysis methods for existing detector technologies using new methods, including machine learning.

Focus of the Work:

• Design and application of scintillator-based tomographic detector systems
• Further development of existing algorithms and implementation of new data analysis methods (using, among other tools, PyTorch)
• Data analysis

• Studies in Physics, Physical Engineering (or a comparable field of study)
• Interest in programming, machine learning, and ideally basic knowledge with Python, PyTorch
• Interest in experimental work

• Duration: at least 3 months, the topic can easily be expanded into a thesis
• Start: anytime
• Workplace: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf