Postdoc (f / m / d) Development of a radiation transport module in the particle-in-cell simulation PIConGPU

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The Institute of Radiation Physics conducts research for states of matter under extreme conditions and in very small dimensions.

The Department of Laser Particle Acceleration is looking for a Postdoc (f / m / d) Development of a radiation transport module in the particle-in-cell simulation PIConGPU.

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• The goal of this work is to develop a fully functional radiation transport module in our plasma simulation code PIConGPU, based on a pilot implementation of an atomic rate solver for electron excitations and ionization.
• All relevant processes, including photonic excitations and ionization, recombination, Auger-cascades and transport shall be implemented and individually tested against analytic, numeric and experimental test cases.
• A significant part of the work will be testing and validation. Our group performs experiments at XFELs to study the heating, ionization and recombination processes in both high-intensity and high-energy laser-solid interactions. You will conceive and participate in experiments, as well as study existing data, to validate specific aspects of the simulation.

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