FAIR Newsletter No. 16
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FAIR Newsletter No. 16
FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 Contents Page FAIR Joint Core Team (FJCT)________________________ 2 Status of the FAIR Project ____________________________________________________2 FAIR Job Offers ____________________________________________________________3 FAIR Workshop in Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, August 16-17, 2010 _______________3 Deputy Director General of ROSATOM Visits GSI and FAIR ________________________4 Status Reports from the Departments _________________ 5 Radiation Protection for FAIR: Shielding Design for the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR)_________________________________________________________5 FAIR Experiments ________________________________ 7 Lucky LYCCA – the First NUSTAR Device in Action _______________________________7 The CBM Physics Book _______________________________________________________8 FAIR Specials____________________________________ 9 Project Funding 2010 by the FAIR Russia Research Center (FRRC) __________________9 The ROSATOM-FAIR Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) ___________________11 FAIR Meetings and Events _________________________ 13 FAIR calendar _____________________________________________________________13 FAIR Links _____________________________________ 13 Masthead ______________________________________ 14 Contact ___________________________________________________________________14 Editor in Charge ___________________________________________________________14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 FAIR Joint Core Team (FJCT) Status of the FAIR Project Boris Sharkov (FJCT) Dear FAIR Colleagues, Today I have the more than pleasant opportunity to inform you on the latest progress with the FAIR project. It is the important milestone that on the latest ISC meeting end of May a representative from the German Foreign Office (FO) blazed a trail and envisaged some dates for two important conferences to be held towards the foundation of FAIR GmbH. Due to a lot of efforts done then by many involved responsibles I am now in a position to give you a sound and backed information that the signature of the FAIR Convention and thus the creation of FAIR GmbH is imminent. With support from the German Foreign Office in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Science the dates for the two conferences leading to FAIR GmbH could have been fixed: At first there will be the Cross-Checking Conference on August 25-27, 2010, preceded by - likely last - AFI and ISC meetings on August 24, 2010. Here, the 5 translations of the FAIR founding documents (Convention and Annex, Articles of Association, Final Act) will officially be initialled. A certain period of time is necessary afterwards for political and organisational work to be done to have then the Signing Conference, envisaged for October 4, 2010 so far. Here, the FAIR Partner Countries will sign the FAIR Convention, clearing the way for, presumably on the same day, founding the new company FAIR GmbH. The time prior to these events will be filled with making final arrangements necessary to fulfil all organisational and legal requirements on part of the FAIR Joint Core Team and GSI GmbH. This comprises in particular the completion of the draft Business Management Contract with its Annexes, the major agreement between GSI GmbH and FAIR GmbH on their future cooperation. I am not only relieved but also proud that we - not a full year after a severe crisis stand there with these achievements. Therefore I would like to wholeheartedly thank all involved persons in politics and science for their mutual efforts to bring the project along to the today's shape and position: the BMBF, the Foreign Office, GSI, the international Partners and - last but not least - my group, the FAIR Joint Core Team. Finally I would like to draw your attention to the next page, where you find several job offers for joining the FAIR team. I would be glad if you considered them perhaps for you or for any persons you know and who have the skills in one of the addressed fields of activities. I am looking forward to sending you the next FAIR Newsletter under the name of FAIR GmbH. Up to then I remain, With my best regards, Boris Sharkov Leader FAIR Joint Core Team top 2 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 FAIR Job Offers FJCT With regard to the upcoming foundation of FAIR GmbH there are the following vacancies, to be filled within the coming months: FAIR Finance Officer (m/f) FAIR Group Leader In-Kind Coordination (m/f) FAIR Group Leader Technical Follow-Up (m/f) FAIR Head Of Site And Buildings Department (m/f) FAIR Legal Adviser (m/f) FAIR Research Director (m/f) Please feel invited to apply within the mentioned period of time. Moreover we are grateful if you could further spread this information according to your possibilities. top FAIR Workshop in Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, August 16-17, 2010 Zbigniew Majka (FJCT) The large and fast growing Brazilian physics community is in a position to join in the FAIR research programme. Therefore the FAIR Joint Core Team and the University of São Paulo, in cooperation with German House of Science and Innovation will organize a FAIR Workshop in Brazil on August 16-17, 2010. The main goals of the Workshop are the initiation of scientific contact between Brazilian scientist and the FAIR experiment collaborations and to undertake necessary steps towards a full membership of Brazil in the FAIR international laboratory The programme of the Workshop includes: the presentation of the FAIR project to Brazilian scientists by representatives from the FAIR Joint Core Team and from each of the four scientific pillars of the FAIR research programme (APPA, NUSTAR, CBM, PANDA), the presentation of the Brazilian activities in FAIR-related fields, the preparation of a short-range plan for the participation of Brazilian scientists in the FAIR experiment collaborations, the preparation of the roadmap for a membership of the Federative Republic of Brazil in the corporation called “FAIR GmbH”. top 3 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 Deputy Director General of ROSATOM Visits GSI and FAIR FJCT On April 29, 2010 Dr. Petr Shchedrovitskiy, Deputy Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, visited the GSI Helmholtz Center and the FAIR project. From left to right: Z. Majka (FJCT), S. Richter (FJCT), P. Shchedrovitskiy (Rosatom) B. Sharkov (FJCT) Photo: G. Otto/GSI ROSATOM will be the largest non-German shareholder in the future FAIR GmbH, contributing EUR 178 million to the construction of the facility. Dr. Shchedrovitskiy's tour through the GSI premises took him to the student laboratory, the main control room, the tumour therapy and the HADES experiment. On the following day the guest went to Berlin to pay a visit to the Head Office of the Helmholtz Association (HGF). There he signed a memorandum of understanding for intensifying the cooperation between the HGF and ROSATOM. top 4 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 Status Reports from the Departments Radiation Protection for FAIR: Shielding Design for the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) Georg Fehrenbacher (GSI) FAIR will operate a storage ring for high energy antiprotons. The area of the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) will host experiments such as PANDA (Anti-Proton Annihilation at Darmstadt) for the research of collisions between antiprotons and protons in fix target geometry. Here, a complex radiation field containing pions, muons, neutrons and gamma rays will be produced. The production of radiation when antimatter interacts with matter makes a particular radiation shielding at the HESR necessary. The simulation of these radiation fields and modelling of the setup for the HESR can be performed by means of the FLUKA Monte Carlo code (www.fluka.org). The following scenarios were considered for the HESR radiation protection investigations: Continuous beam losses in the ring (at straight lines as well as at the arcs) Accidental beam losses with all antiprotons in the ring being at one point deposited. The original architectural layout was developed by the Research Center Jülich in cooperation with GSI GmbH on the basis of so-called "line-of-sight models". The radiation protection considerations with the HESR are at first concentrated on the areas of the combined building for the accelerator and the supply section. The following shielding calculations (fig. 1) were carried out by means of FLUKA to confirm the planned shielding measures 1 : Fig. 1: Cross section of the HESR tunnel und the supply building. The HESR tunnel is shielded by concrete layers and soil embankment. The cross section of fig 1 was used for the radiation transport calculations to estimate the dose rate values inside and outside the tunnel building during accelerator operation. A scenario of continuous beam losses is chosen in this example (107 p /s on a section length of 22 m). 1 Andrey Plotnikov, Investigation of the dose distribution in the HESR tunnel and surrounding facilities, June 2010, GSI Radiation Protection and Safety Department 5 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 The results of the FLUKA calculations are shown in fig. 2: Fig. 2: Dose distribution for the HESR tunnel during operation and storage of antiprotons. The reference energy of the antiproton beam is 8 GeV. The dose rates in all accessible areas are lower than 0.1 µSv/h. Outside the soil embankment the dose rates are even lower. A simulated scenario with a rarely accidental beam loss at one point for the whole antiproton filling of the storage ring resulted in an overall dose of about 10 µSv. This value is more than two orders of magnitude lower than the average natural radiation exposure on the population per year. Consequently, the planned shielding measures for the HESR are sufficient. top 6 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 FAIR Experiments Lucky LYCCA – the First NUSTAR Device in Action M.A. Bentley (York), J. Gerl (GSI), P. Reiter (U Köln), D. Rudolph (U Lund) End of February 2010 the first FAIR-NUSTAR experiment device entered GSI/FAIR grounds: the vacuum chamber of the Lund-York-Cologne CAlorimeter (LYCCA). The photo on the left shows smiling (lycka = Swedish for luck, happiness) heads from the mechanics workshop of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cologne University, where this formidable chamber was constructed and built. LYCCA is a core device of the HISPEC experiment at FAIR under the NUSTAR umbrella. Embracing early FAIR schedules the LYCCA collaboration submitted a Technical Design Report in June 2008, already approved in October 2008 (http://wwwnsg.nuclear.lu.se/lycca).The FAIR acceptance ensured both, in-kind accountability of LYCCA and investment money from German, Swedish and UK funding agencies to cover the full LYCCA detection system. A. Wendt, PhD student at Cologne University and S. Thiel, head from the mechanics workshop at Cologne University, upon delivery of the LYCCA chamber to GSI on February 25, 2010. LYCCA skeleton with the very first ΔE-E modules mounted prior to their first experimental challenge within experiment S272 at the S4 focus of the FRS (March 2010). Photos: G. Otto (GSI) Immediately on arrival the LYCCA chamber has been filled with the first LYCCA ΔE-E detector modules produced at Lund University. The modules consist of double-sided silicon strip detectors for ΔE- and CsI blocks for total-energy measurements of reaction products induced by relativistic radioactive ions in the HISPEC focal plane of the coming Super-FRagment-Separator (Super-FRS). While a subset of LYCCA is currently being implemented for the PRESPEC in-beam campaign for frontline nuclear spectroscopy experiments at the FRS at GSI up to the year 2013, these four LYCCA modules encountered the challenge of experimental heat via S272 in March and April 2010 – together with a new time-of-flight scheme based on multiple read-out of a fast plastic scintillator. 7 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 The LYCCA system not only worked according to or even better than the specifications, but its usage and performance is telling on two more general aspects: Joint NUSTAR activities across sub-collaborations bear the potential of largely enhanced physics output and thus generate happy (and lucky) physicists; And LYCCA marks a prime example for the timely use of anticipated FAIR equipment for frontierscience experiments at GSI. Scientific contacts: Prof. D. Rudolph, Lund University, Sweden, dirk.rudolph@nuclear.lu.se; Prof. P. Reiter, Köln University, Germany, preiter@ikp.uni-koeln.de; Prof. M. A. Bentley, University of York, UK, mab503@york.ac.uk top The CBM Physics Book P. Senger (GSI) top 8 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 FAIR Specials Project Funding 2010 by the FAIR Russia Research Center (FRRC) Alexander Fertman (ITEP) for the FRRC Council On May 11, 2010 an international review process by the Council of the FAIR Russia Research Center (FRRC) came to a final decision on the funding of the following projects: Postdoctoral Fellows ((*) advanced fellows): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Design and Integration of the CBM experiment: Belogurov Sergey(*) (CBM, ITEP) Performance and sensitivity of the PANDA calorimetry to measure the particles decaying into gamma-quanta: Morozov Dmitry (PANDA, IHEP) Study of strong interactions and hadronic matter in experiments using antiproton beams of unprecedented intensity and quality in the energy range of 1 GeV to 15 GeV provided by the new GSI facility FAIR: Barabanov Mikhail (PANDA, JINR) Properties of hadronic matter in strong electromagnetic fields: Buividovich Pavel (CBM, JINR) Development of CBM calorimeter software (calorimeter in muon option of CBM, detailed modeling of calorimeter response). Implementation of modern Panda TOF geometry: Prokudin Mikhail (CBM, ITEP) Research and development on SC magnet technologies, cryogenic tests of superconducting dipole and quadrupole magnets for SIS100. Research and Development of the stochastic cooling system prototype for HESR: Trubnikov Grigory(*) (Accelerators, JINR) Optimization of the PANDA Muon System: Rodionov Valery(*) (PANDA, JINR) Diagnostic of density distribution inside a HEDgeHOB target with spatial and temporal resolution by ion/proton radiography method: Turtikov Vladimir(*) (HEDgeHOB, ITEP) The technical desighn report for 500 MeV linac for ion-electron collider: Logachev Pavel(*) (Accelerators, BINP) QED in heavy ions: higher-order contributions to the g-factor and the hyperfine splitting: Glazov Dmitry (SPARC, St. Petersburg State University) Development of new techniques and instrumentations for investigation of high energy density matter generated by intense heavy ion beams: Shilkin Nikolay (HEDgeHOB, IPCP RAS) Charge exchange, excitation and ionization processes in heavy-ion collisions: Kozhedub Yury (SPARK, St. Petersburg State University) Comparison of φ and ω meson cross sections, measured in different decay modes using CBMROOT simulations: Sharkov Georgiy (CBM, ITEP) Theoretical studies of the drip-line nuclei: structure, correlations in reactions and decays, astrophysical applications: Grigorenko Leonid (NUSTAR, JINR) 9 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 PhD students 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Event reconstruction based on time stamps in the data flow of the CBM experiment: Kryshen Evgeny (CBM, PNPI) R&D of microchannel plate PMT for DIRC detectors of PANDA: Barnyakov Mikhail (PANDA, BINP) R&D for R3B/EXL gamma-spectrometers,ELISE in-ring instrumentation: Krupko Sergey (NUSTAR, JINR) Research and development of fast and high resolution gaseous detectors for CBM: Zryuev Vladislav (CBM, JINR) Data acquisition and control system for HEDP experiments on FAIR: Kantsyrev Alexey (HEDgeHOB, ITEP) Design justification of the beampipe and the STS layout and study of the influence of the upstream detectors on the ECAL performance for CBM experiment: Chernogorov Andrey (CBM, ITEP) EIC – Electron-Ion Collider (nonlinear effects, final focus, detector background): Shatunov Petr (Accelerators, BINP) Research and development of low loss superconducting NbTi wires with enhanced properties for FAIR SIS300 magnets: Karasev Yuriy (SIS-100, VNIINM Bochvar) R&D for R3B/EXL silicon spectrometers, ELISE in-ring instrumentation based on planar Si and CVDD: Gorshkov Alexander (NUSTAR, JINR) Machine Lattice, Chromaticity and Dynamic Aperture of eRing; Injection from electron linac; Beam-Beam effects. Antiproton option: Shvartz Dmitry (Accelerators, BINP) Beam Transport Channel, Beam Injection and Beam Diagnostic: Berkaev Dmitry (Accelerators, BINP) Research and development of a RF multi-cell deflector (wobbler) for LAPLAS experiment: Sitnikov Alexey (HEDgeHOB, ITEP) Beam dynamics in 500 MeV linac for ion-electron collider. Simulation and optimization for Technical Design Report: Levichev Aleksey (Accelerators, BINP) Study of nucleon structure by processes with direct photons and leptons pairs production: Skachkova Anna (PANDA, JINR) Master students: 1. 2. Search for the parity violation effects due to nuclear anapole moments at storage ring with polarized ion beam: Bondarevskaya Anastasiya (SPARC, St. Petersburg State University) Development of CATIA-VMC geometry builder and its application for CBM and NUSTAR MC geometry update: Ovcharenko Egor (CBM, BMSTU-ITEP) The FAIR Russia Research Center congratulates all winners and wishes a successful start of the project. Please contact frrc@itep.ru for details about funding of the project on FRRC part, on further steps to be done by you and in case of any other questions. We are prepared to assist you at any time. top 10 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 The ROSATOM-FAIR Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) Alexander Vasiliev (IHEP) for the ROSATOM-FAIR STC It is not long ago that the Russian Government issued and published their decree on the Russian participation in the FAIR project on February 27, 2010 (see NL No. 15). By this decision the Russian Government approved their contribution to the construction of FAIR in the amount of 178 Million Euro (January 2005 prices) and to sign of FAIR Convention with authorizing the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM to become the Russian Shareholder in the FAIR Company. Then, on April 9, 2010 ROSATOM issued the order to set up a Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) to coordinate and control all the work being provided by the Russian institutions within the framework of FAIR. The STC committee consists of 15 members: Alexander Vasiliev (IHEP-Institute of High Energy Physics, Protvino) – Chairman, Alexander Fertman (ITEP-Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow) – Scientific Secretary, Alexander Golubev (ITEP, Moscow), Alexei Korsheninnikov (Kurchatov Institute, Moscow), Sergey Kozub (IHEP, Protvino), Mikhail Merkin (MSU-Skobeltsin Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow), Victor Mintsev (Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka), Alexander Olshevskii (JINR-Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna), Victor Pantsyrnyi (RIIM-Bochvar Research Institute of Inorganic Materials, Moscow), Vladimir Samsonov (PNPI-St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina), Boris Sharkov (FAIR Scientific Director), Yuri Shatunov (BINP-Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk), Grigoriy Trubnikov (JINR, Dubna), Victor Varentsov (ITEP, Moscow/ROSATOM representative at FAIR), Yuri Zaitsev (ITEP, Moscow) On May 14, 2010 the STC held their first, on July 5 the second meeting in Moscow. The picture shows some STC members and some invited guests From left to right: Sergey Kozub (IHEP), Grigoriy Trubnikov (JINR), Leonid Chulkov (Kurchatov Institute), Vladimir Eremin (Ioffe PTI, SanktPetersburg), Alexander Olshevskii (JINR), Andrei Fomichev (JINR), Georgi Alkhazov (PNPI), Alexander Fertman (ITEP), Victor Pantsyrnyi (RIIM), Igor Ivanov (NIIMV, Zelenograd), Yuri Zaitsev (ITEP), Alexander Vasiliev (IHEP), Alexander Golubev (ITEP), Yuri Shatunov (BINP), Victor Varentsov (ITEP/FAIR), Mikhail Merkin (MSU), Yuri Novikov (PNP) 11 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 Boris Sharkov and Victor Varentsov informed about the status of the FAIR project and about the Russian contribution of parts to the FAIR accelerator complex and the FAIR experimental base. The members discussed various organisational items of their work and approved a list of obligations on part of the members of the committee. Yuri Shatunov reported about a BINP participation in the FAIR Super-FRS and SIS100 synchrotron. He described e. g. in detail a dedicated Super-FRS prototype magnet made in Novosibirsk by using R&D money from GSI. The magnet prototype has an aperture of 140 x 400 mm and a field inhomogeneity less than 2x10-4. Alexander Vasiliev reported on the PANDA requirements of about 9000 remaining lead-tungstate crystals (PWO) to be inserted into an electromagnetic calorimeter to cover almost the whole solid angle around the PANDA target. The first batch of about 7000 PWO crystals were manufactured at and delivered by the Bogoroditsk plant of Techno Chemical Products (BTCP) in Russia. However, there is a severe risk that BTCP cannot supply the remaining crystals for PANDA because of lack of further contracts Since the share capital of the Russian Federation does not cover all Expressions of Interest (EoI) of the Russian institutions for all 4 scientific pillars CBM, PANDA, NuSTAR and APPA (HEDgeHOB) the STC will investigate possibilities for additional Russian funding activities. top 12 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 FAIR Meetings and Events FAIR calendar https://www.gsi.de/gsitools/fair.shtml FAIR Links www.fair-center.org FAIR Green Paper FAIR Baseline Technical Report FAIR brochure FAIR flyer FAIR newsletter archive FAIR Job Offers FAIR Finance Officer (m/f) FAIR Group Leader In-Kind Coordination (m/f) FAIR Group Leader Technical Follow-Up (m/f) FAIR Head Of Site And Buildings Department (m/f) FAIR in the CERN Courier FAIR Legal Adviser (m/f) FAIR in Nuclear Physics FAIR Research Director (m/f) FAIR Memorandum of Understanding FAIR Communiqué How to reach the location First steps on site top 13 / 14 FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 Masthead Contact GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH FAIR Joint Core Team Building C 27 Planckstrasse 1 D-64291 Darmstadt Phone +49-61 59-71-14 34 Fax +49-61 59-71-39 16 Editor in Charge Martina Hinkelmann FAIR Joint Core Team (Authors named are responsible for the content of their articles.) top FAIR Newsletter No. 16 July 2010 14 / 14