NuSTAR PROJECT COORDINATION
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Surrey (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Cologne (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University of the West of Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- Daresbury Laboratory (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Zsolt Podolyak (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Alharbi T
(2014)
Sub-nanosecond Half-life Measurement of the Yrast I p = 5 - State in the N = 78 Nucleus Ce 58 136 using Fast-timing Coincident Gamma-ray Spectroscopy
in Nuclear Data Sheets
Alexander T
(2015)
Isomeric Ratios in $^{206}$Hg
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Akkoyun S
(2012)
AGATA-Advanced GAmma Tracking Array
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Agramunt J
(2016)
Characterization of a neutron-beta counting system with beta-delayed neutron emitters
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
| Description | AGATA |
| Organisation | National Institute for Nuclear Physics |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | setting up the AGATA demonstrator at Legnaro, Italy. Running the first AGATA+PRISMA experiment. Writing data analysis code. Contributing to GEANT4 simulations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | the main UK institution in this multi-institution grant. |
| Impact | paper on simulations; analysis of tests contributed to improving the system, especially software. |
| Description | AGATA |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | setting up the AGATA demonstrator at Legnaro, Italy. Running the first AGATA+PRISMA experiment. Writing data analysis code. Contributing to GEANT4 simulations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | the main UK institution in this multi-institution grant. |
| Impact | paper on simulations; analysis of tests contributed to improving the system, especially software. |
| Description | LYCCA at Koln |
| Organisation | University of Cologne |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have entered a collaboration with the University of Koln to install, test and utilise the LYCCA calorimeter (built using funding from the current award) at the accelerator facility at the University of Koln Physics department. York provided manpower and co-ordination and funds for building the LYCCA mechanics and testing the equipment. All of the equipment used was funded by the UK NuSTAR grant - through York and Daresbury Laboratory. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues at the University of Koln have provided manpower, mechanical design effort and, crucially, beam time for testing and utilising the LYCCA array prior to eventual deployment at FAIR. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | UK AGATA Collaboration |
| Organisation | Daresbury Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bentley is leading the UK AGATA STFC-funded project. Part of the AGATA project is the preparation of the AGATA phase at FAIR, part of HISPEC. This was one of the three major components of the UK NUSTAR project. Bentley has co-ordinated the collaboration, including the scientific and technical direction of the FAIR part of the AGATA project. The project will contribute to the mechanics, electronics, pulse-shape analysis and simulations for AGATA as part of the NUSTAR project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing science direction, and technical expertise to the project. The project will contribute to the mechanical design and construction, electronics and data acquisition, pulse-shape analysis and physics simulations for AGATA as part of the NUSTAR project. |
| Impact | Full grant award from STFC 2019-2024 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UK AGATA Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bentley is leading the UK AGATA STFC-funded project. Part of the AGATA project is the preparation of the AGATA phase at FAIR, part of HISPEC. This was one of the three major components of the UK NUSTAR project. Bentley has co-ordinated the collaboration, including the scientific and technical direction of the FAIR part of the AGATA project. The project will contribute to the mechanics, electronics, pulse-shape analysis and simulations for AGATA as part of the NUSTAR project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing science direction, and technical expertise to the project. The project will contribute to the mechanical design and construction, electronics and data acquisition, pulse-shape analysis and physics simulations for AGATA as part of the NUSTAR project. |
| Impact | Full grant award from STFC 2019-2024 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UK AGATA Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Bentley is leading the UK AGATA STFC-funded project. Part of the AGATA project is the preparation of the AGATA phase at FAIR, part of HISPEC. This was one of the three major components of the UK NUSTAR project. Bentley has co-ordinated the collaboration, including the scientific and technical direction of the FAIR part of the AGATA project. The project will contribute to the mechanics, electronics, pulse-shape analysis and simulations for AGATA as part of the NUSTAR project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing science direction, and technical expertise to the project. The project will contribute to the mechanical design and construction, electronics and data acquisition, pulse-shape analysis and physics simulations for AGATA as part of the NUSTAR project. |
| Impact | Full grant award from STFC 2019-2024 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | Daresbury Laboratory |
| Department | Nuclear Physics Support Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Brighton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | UK-NUSTAR |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. Yorks contribution has been to construct and test the LYCCA device, including time-of-flight detectors, state of the art ASIC-based electronics systems and associated mechanical and electronic engineering. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We all work towards constructing and exploiting equipment for NUSTAR at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| Impact | Construction of equipment for NUSTAR |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | IOP School Grants Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Funding awarded to Frodsham CE Primary school to visit Jodrell Bank Observatory. I was the scientific partner for this grant who initiated the idea, helped formulate the funding request and took part in the visit with year 4 children. Difficult to quantify. Hopefully help broaden the provision of the science curriculum in this primary school and develop taste for physics/astrophysics in young children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Nuclear Physics Masterclasses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | About 20 six-formers attend practical activities in the new Canberra Laboratory at the Univ. of Liverpool award-winning CTL facilities and presentations over a number of days, including discussions in the Q&A part of the presentations. I was the academic lead scientist for these masterclasses since 2012. Difficult to quantify. Hopefully help attract students to study Physics at University and develop awareness of Nuclear Physics impact on everyday life. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014 |
| Description | Women in Physics Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk at Women in Physics (WiP) workshops, organised by the Physics Outreach Group of the University of Liverpool for girls in year 12 of high school, taking AS and/or A2 courses in Physics. Difficult to quantify. Hopefully help attract students to study Physics at University and develop awareness of Nuclear Physics impact on everyday life. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014 |