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APPLICATION DEADLINE:  Wednesday February 4th, 2026

Job Description

The Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy offers a combined program of a BScH/MSc
(Physics). This program offers an opportunity for students to carry out summer research between their 3rd
and 4th years, then, in the 4th year of their Honours program (Physics) to take up to 2 courses in Physics
at the graduate level which would then allow these students to enter the graduate program with advanced
standing. Research begun as an undergraduate could be carried forward as a foundation for the graduate
thesis, which would create an opportunity for exceptional students to complete the graduate degree
within 4 terms.

KDK+ is an experiment measuring rare decays of 40K and other isotopes of interest to astronomy and
geochronology with openings for accelerated masters students to work on hardware, simulations and
analysis. Include string “KDK26” in email subject.
Contact: Philippe Di Stefano (distefan@queensu.ca, /academia/di-stefano/)

DEAP and DarkSide are large-scale liquid argon experiments that use the unique properties of liquid
argon scintillation to search for extremely rare dark matter interactions. DEAP is based at SNOLAB
and has already acquired 3 years’ worth of data. DarkSide is a next-generation experiment, and will
be the first direct dark matter experiment to fully instrument the detector with novel quantum
sensors called Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). Opportunities available to students include analysis
of DEAP data as well as assistance with data-taking, and simulating and testing the data acquisition
system for DarkSide in conjunction with colleagues at TRIUMF. Additionally, students will have the
opportunity to gain hands-on experience, by contributing to cutting-edge measurements in liquid
argon, eventually mixed with other molecules to enhance its signal, with the scope to develop new
tools for the dark matter detection in future rare event search experiments.
Contact: Théo Hugues (theo.hugues@queensu.ca)

Laboratory for Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (LEMMA) studies high-energy particles in the
Universe. Our Universe harbours an enormous number of objects capable of accelerating charged
particles to energies much higher than anything that can be obtained by human-made accelerators.
LEMMA aims to identify these extreme accelerators in our Universe by combining the knowledge gained
from observations of many different particle messengers: cosmic rays, high-energy gamma rays, and highenergy
neutrinos.
Webpage: /physics/lemma/

LEMMA Research opportunities:
HELIX (High Energy Light Isotope eXperiment): HELIX is a NASA-funded balloon experiment. The payload
is designed to measure the fluxes of cosmic ray isotopes, which will provide unique data to study the
propagation of cosmic rays in our Galaxy. HELIX has a successful flight in 2024 summer. Research
opportunities with HELIX will be focused on developing and evaluating the Monte Carlo detector
simulation to study the flight data. This will require skills in computer programming to perform the data
analysis and understanding of statistical analysis.

P-ONE (Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment) is a proposed high-energy neutrino telescope located off the
coast of Vancouver Island. The scientific motivation of the experiment is to measure the high-energy
neutrinos and search for the origin of these neutrinos. The first Demonstrator string is scheduled to be
deployed in 2026. The research opportunity with P-ONE is to characterize the photomultiplier tubes
(PMTs), a sensitive photon detector, that will be assembled for the Demonstrator. This will involve setting
up the apparatus for various tests, building an automated testing environment, testing hundreds of PMTs,
and data analysis. Depending on the progress, the research may include the high-energy neutrino
telescope simulation to study the properties of P-ONE with different string configurations.
Contact: Nahee Park (nahee.park@queensu.ca)