Relativistic energy fragmentation in nuclear structure studies
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Abstract
Our knowledge of neutron-rich nuclei is limited due to the nature of the reactions we can use to synthesise them. Most promising is the new ability to detect discrete gamma-ray transitions following heavy-ion projectile fragmentation at relativistic energies. A major strand of this fundamental research are the ISOMER and RISING projects based at the GSI facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Over the next 3-5 year period a new European fragmentation facility (FAIR) will be constructed. I am the named project coordinator for the High-resolution In-Flight Spectroscopy (HISPEC) portion of this project. The extension of my Advanced Fellowship will allow me to complete the study of exotic neutron-rich nuclei around the N=126 magic number, and will naturally evolve into managing the construction phase of HISPEC and then initiating investigations of even more exotic nuclei at FAIR.
Organisations
- University of Surrey (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Brighton (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- Daresbury Laboratory (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Collaboration)
- Complutense University of Madrid (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- University of Valencia (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University of the West of Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
Publications
Mohammadi S.
(2006)
Yrast states in
188,190Os nuclei
in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS E-NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Podolyak Zsolt
(2006)
The high-resolution in-flight spectroscopy (HISPEC) project at fair
in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS E-NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Neyens G.
(2007)
g factor measurements on relativistic isomeric beams produced by fragmentation and U-fission:: The
g-rising project at GSI
in ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B
Axiotis M
(2007)
High-spin ?-ray spectroscopy in Mn 52
in Physical Review C
Pietri S
(2007)
Experimental details of the Stopped Beam RISING campaign
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Jungclaus A
(2007)
Observation of isomeric decays in the r-process waiting-point nucleus 130Cd82.
in Physical review letters
Jones G
(2007)
Identification of a high-spin isomer in Mo 99
in Physical Review C
Detistov P.
(2007)
Simulation of the electromagnetic background radiation for the rising experimental set-up
in ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B
Jones G
(2007)
Yrast studies of Se 80 , 82 using deep-inelastic reactions
in Physical Review C
Myalski S.
(2007)
Isomeric ratio for the
I
p=8
+ yrast state in
96Pd produced in the relativistic fragmentation of
107Ag
in ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B
| Description | There were two findings: (i) to complete the Stopped-Beam RISING experiments with particular emphasis on beta-delayed measurements (ii) to continue to lead the developments, and design of novel instrumentation used in the High-resolution in-flight Spectroscopy (HISPEC) project at the new FAIR facility, and to take it forward in the construction phase. |
| Exploitation Route | Longer timescales needed. |
| Sectors | Education Energy Healthcare Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | Daresbury Laboratory |
| Department | Nuclear Physics Support Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung |
| Department | Nuclear Physics 2 |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Brighton |
| Department | Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | NuSTAR |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Department | School of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Building equipment to be used within NuSTAR at GSI/FAIR, within R3B, HISPEC, DESPEC |
| Collaborator Contribution | building equipment for R3B, HSIPEC, DESPEC |
| Impact | FAIR is being built with NuSTAR being one of its four pillar collaborations |
| Description | isolde |
| Organisation | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | experiment proposed and performed, data analysed, published. Equipment (Ge detectors, digital EDAQ) |
| Collaborator Contribution | expert manpower to run experiment |
| Impact | publication. Future collaborations on reactor decay heat etc. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | isolde |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | ISOLDE Radioactive Ion Beam Facility |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | experiment proposed and performed, data analysed, published. Equipment (Ge detectors, digital EDAQ) |
| Collaborator Contribution | expert manpower to run experiment |
| Impact | publication. Future collaborations on reactor decay heat etc. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | isolde |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | experiment proposed and performed, data analysed, published. Equipment (Ge detectors, digital EDAQ) |
| Collaborator Contribution | expert manpower to run experiment |
| Impact | publication. Future collaborations on reactor decay heat etc. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | isolde |
| Organisation | University of Valencia |
| Department | Corpuscular Physics Institute (IFIC) |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | experiment proposed and performed, data analysed, published. Equipment (Ge detectors, digital EDAQ) |
| Collaborator Contribution | expert manpower to run experiment |
| Impact | publication. Future collaborations on reactor decay heat etc. |
| Start Year | 2008 |