Nuclear Matter ProgrammeJuha Äystö, programme leaderOverall HIP operations budget 330 k €

ISOLDE at CERN ALICE at CERNFAIR project at GSI

ISOLDEAri Jokinen, project leader

ALICEMarkku Oinonen, project leaderJan Rak (March 2003 -)

ISOLDE-project 2006

Research areas and personnel:

Nuclear phys., weak inter. and instr. (JY):J. Äystö, Nuclear matter program leaderA. Jokinen, ISOLDE project leader, ISCC-representativeU. Hager, I. Moore, A. Saastamoinen. R. Julin, P. Greenlees, P. Jones, S. Juutinen, M. Reponen

Solid state physics (HY&JY):J. Räisänen, I. Riihimäki O. Koskelo, S. Väyrynen and V. Tuboltsev

Beam preparation & radioactive ion beams (JY):A. Jokinen (EURISOL task leader in beam preparation)P. Suominen (ECR development, MTOF-project), presently at CERN as a post-doc.

Ph.D degrees (2006)S. Rinta-Antila, A. Kankainen

Ph.D. degrees (2007-08)U.Hager

Master’s thesis (2007)M. Reponen

Activities 2006 with JY/HIP participation:

Advanced lifetime measurements close to doubly magic 132Sn - to understand the evolution of shell orbits in exotic nuclei (A. Jokinen)

Alpha decay of 229mTh to 225Ra-To measure conflicting half-life of 3.5 eV isomeric state in 229Th and investigate its properties (I. Moore)

Precision mass measurements with ISOLTRAP- for nuclear physics and astrophysics and to test the validity of IMME (U. Hager)

Decay study of 17Ne - to obtain information on 12C()16O reaction (A. Saastamoinen)

Commissioning of recoil spectrometer WITCH- Installation and characterization of the surface ion source for WITCH-setup (M. Reponen, Pro Gradu 2007)

Isolde-project 2007-

Activities 2007 with JY/HIP participation:

ECR development for advanced charge breeding - to compare Electorn Beam Ion Source and Electron Cyclotron Resonance ion sources for EURISOL-DS (P. Suominen)

Feasibility study of multi-reflection TOF-spectrometer (P. Suominen)

Ultra fast timing meaurements at 78N and 132Sn - to verify the shell model picture for the nuclear systems with a few particles and/or holes outside of the doubly-magic core (A. Jokinen)

RFQ-cooler and buncher project- Installation of RFQ-cooler and buncher on-line. Last off-line tests during the summer and installation on September (P. Hietala and A. Jokinen)

Experiments under preparation for on-line run with JY/HIP participation:

IS457: Laser spectroscopy of gallium isotopes using the ISCOOL RFQ cooler (I. Moore, A. Jokinen, J. Äystö)

IS452: Measurement of shape co-existence in 182,184Hg using Coulomb excitation (R. Julin, P. Greenlees, S. Juutinen, P. Jones)

IS450: Diffusion of 56Co in GaAs and SiGe alloys(J. Räisänen, O. Koskelo, S. Väyrynen and V. Tuboltsev)

Publications 2007

Towards high-accuracy mass spectrometry of highly charged short-lived ions at ISOLTRAPA.Herlert et al.,Int. J. Mass Spectrometry, 251(2006)13

Accurate mass measurements of neutron-deficient krypton isotopes,D. Rodriquez et al.,Nucl. Phys. A 769(2006)1

Coulomb excitation of 68,70Cu. First use of post-accelerated isomeric beams,I. Stefaniscu, et al.,Phys. Rev. Lett., 98(2007)122701

Ramsey Method of Separated Oscillatory Fields for High-Precision Penning Trap MassSpectrometry,S. George et al.,Phys. Rev. Lett., 98(2007)162501

HIP/ALICE project 2007- *

ALICE silicon strip detectors in Helsinki Detector Laboratory

ALICE/SSD group. Task finished: 700 SSD modules assembled in 2006 under the direction of Dr. Markku Oinonen.

Dr. Markku Oinonen and Dr. Jan Rak, project leader (March 2007 -)

ALICE T0 team:Dr. Wladyslaw Trzaska (JYFL)Graduate students (JYFL): Tomas Malkiewicz, Sergey Yamaletdinov, Mikko Sillanpää

ALICE Physics team:Dr. Jan Rak (HIP/JYFL)Post docs: Mariana Bondila (HIP), DongJo Kim (JYFL) 

Graduate students: Rafael Diaz VALDES, Norbert Novicky graduate student (8/2007) Underg. Students: Timo Alho, Michal Oledzki, Henri Seppänen (HIP), Antti Kaskela (HIP)

* Special presentation by Jan Rak

Nuclear structure. Radioactive beams

Hadron structure studies with antiprotons

Nuclear matter and relativistic heavy ion collisions

Plasma research with high-power heavy ion beams

Atomic physics, antimatter, applications

Scientific pillars

NUSTAR

PANDA

FAIR - International Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

Facility Characteristics:

Primary Beams

• 1012/s; 1.5-2 GeV/u; 238U28+

• Factor 100-1000 over present in intensity• 2(4)x1013/s 30 GeV protons• 1010/s 238U73+ up to 35 GeV/u • up to 90 GeV protons

Secondary Beams• Broad range of radioactive beams up to 1.5 - 2 GeV/u; up to factor 10 000 in intensity over present • Antiprotons 3 - 30 GeV

Storage and Cooler Rings

• Radioactive beams

• e- – A (or Antiproton-A) collider

• 1011 stored and cooled 0.8 - 14.5 GeV antiprotons

Key Technical Features

• Cooled beams• Rapidly cycling superconducting magnets

Technology projects  Accelerator and infrastructureFINPRO 

Production of cooled and stopped ions (H. Penttilä, J. Äystö)HIP-JYFLDIRAC Design Study funded by EU  

NUSTAR Collaboration (A. Jokinen, R. Julin, M. Leino, J. Äystö) HISPEC-DESPEC; Nuclear structure far from stabilityHIP-JYFL LASPEC; Laser spectroscopy of short-lived nucleiHIP-JYFL MATS; High precision experiments on rare isotopesHIP-JYFL    

PANDA Collaboration (F. Garcia, M. Oinonen)HIP-detector laboratory

Phase 1 projects from Finland

Budget 5 M

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Cost estimate of FAIR

Construction costs about 1 G€

• Accelerators and storage rings 530 M€

• Buildings and infrastructure 290 M€

• Experiments 180 M€

Operating costs about 120 M€/year– preliminary estimate

Estimate for Finlands share

• Construction 2007 - 2012 about 5 M€– Instruments for scientific base program– Own share of JYFL and HIP 2 M€– Need for additional funding 3 M€– Technology projects under discussion

• Share of operating costs (gnb-based)– 400 - 560 k€/y during 2011 - 2015– 1 M€/ during 2016 – 2025

NUSTAR Collaboration

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• Storage ring HESR for antiprotons at 1.5 – 15 GeV/c

GEM-TPC Prototype Development @ HIP

Helsinki Group:Francisco García – PANDA Local Technical CoordinatorMatti Kalliokoski – PhD StudentAntti Numminen - Technician

• Target spectrometer:

•Tracking: MVD, STT or TPC

•PID: DIRC, TOF, muon chambers

•EMC: PbWO crystals

• Forward spectrometer:

•Tracking: MDC or GEM

•Gas RICH, TOF, muon chambers

•Shashlyk calorimeter

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TOTEM GEM detector Activities

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Detector laboratory activities

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FAIR and Finland

• 2000 Preparatory work for FAIR (with NuPECC)• 2003 Letter from Minister Haatainen to Minister Buhlman: Finland is interested

to join FAIR with ”some” contribution. • 2004 OPM authorized Prof. Riska to sign MoU for preparation phase of FAIR

and nominated HIP as the national body to proceed on scientific and technical planning.

• OPM financial support for FAIR: 2005-2007 • ISC ja AFI: Mirja Arajärvi, OPM• STI: Dan-Olof Riska, HIP, ja Juha Äystö, JY• Negotiations: OPM-HIP-JY-SA-Tekes-Finpro• In-kind advisory board: Juha Äystö

• March 2007: Government appoints Negotiation team for FAIR:M: Arajärvi (OPM), A. Joensuu (KTM), R. Munther (TEKES)

• April 2007: Joint Core Team application to EU: Heikki Penttilä (NUSTAR)