Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions at FAIR
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of York (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Cologne (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON (Collaboration)
- University of the West of Scotland (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- Daresbury Laboratory (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Michael Bentley (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Akkoyun S
(2012)
AGATA-Advanced GAmma Tracking Array
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Alexander T
(2015)
Isomeric Ratios in $^{206}$Hg
in Acta Physica Polonica B
Boso A
(2018)
Neutron Skin Effects in Mirror Energy Differences: The Case of ^{23}Mg-^{23}Na.
in Physical review letters
Boso A
(2019)
Isospin dependence of electromagnetic transition strengths among an isobaric triplet
in Physics Letters B
Bracco A
(2021)
Gamma spectroscopy with AGATA in its first phases: New insights in nuclear excitations along the nuclear chart
in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Golubev P
(2013)
The Lund-York-Cologne Calorimeter (LYCCA): Concept, design and prototype developments for a FAIR-NUSTAR detector system to discriminate relativistic heavy-ion reaction products
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Guastalla G
(2014)
Analysis and results of the 104 Sn Coulomb excitation experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Korten W
(2020)
Physics opportunities with the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array: AGATA
in The European Physical Journal A
Lalovic N
(2018)
Study of isomeric states in 198,200,202,206 Pb and 206 Hg populated in fragmentation reactions
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Moschner K
(2016)
Relativistic Coulomb excitation of Kr 88
in Physical Review C
| Description | We have developed and built, as part of the UK-NUSTAR project, a range of equipment to be used for the NUSTAR project at FAIR, Germany. We have built a time-of-flight detector for identification of exotic nuclei, which has involved investigating different timing solutions, including diamond detectors, but eventually using a large-area plastic scintillator. The plastic scintillator solution has been shown by us to be capable of providing timing measurements with a precision of better than 50ps. We (led by Daresbury, co-ordinated through York) have also developed and built a new ASIC-based electronics system, for the silicon detectors of the LYCCA array at NUSTAR. This uses state of the art digital and analogue electronics to construct a highly versatile and compact/efficient system for signal-processing. We have tested these detectors in-situ at GSI FAIR and are have moved the electronics, and the associated detector, to the University of Koln. At Koln, we will continue testing the new electronics and we plan to use the equipment for fundamental physics research at Koln, up until the move to FAIR when the FAIR facility is ready for operation. |
| Exploitation Route | The technologies we have developed will be used by a wide range of researchers at the Super-FRS facility in the next decade once the FAIR facility is operational. The time-of-flight methodology is of interest to any researcher that needs to making timing measurements for particles at the sub 100ps precision level. The electronics development for the Si detectors is of interest to any industry or research programme that needs to process a large (many thousands) number of detector signals with high efficiency. |
| Sectors | Education,Electronics,Energy |
| URL | http://www.uknustar.org |
| Description | AGATA Interim Funding |
| Amount | £491,664 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/T003480/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | AGATA: Precision Spectroscopy of Exotic Nuclei |
| Amount | £756,121 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/T000546/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| 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 |