INSTYTUT PROBLEMÓW JDROWYCH im. Andrzeja Sotana The Andrzej Sotan INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES
ANNUAL REPORT
2009
PL-05-400 OTWOCK-WIERK, POLAND tel.: 048 22 718 05 83
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Editors:
N. Keeley J. Skalski
Secretarial work and layout:
A. Odziemczyk
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ISSN 1232-5309
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD... 5
I. GENERAL INFORMATION ... 7
1. LOCATIONS ... 7
2. MANAGEMENT OF THE INSTITUTE ... 7
3. SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL... 8
4. DEPARTMENTS OF THE INSTITUTE... 9
5. MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES... 10
6. SCIENTIFIC STAFF OF THE INSITUTE... 12
7. VISITING SCIENTISTS... 14
8. GRANTS ... 15
9. PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL CONSORTIA AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS ... 18
10. DEGREES ... 19
11. THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF THE FREE ELECTRON LASER POLFEL AT THE SOTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES... 19
12. THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER – HOW DOES IT WORK? A TRAVELLING EXHIBITION... 22
II. DEPARTMENTS OF THE INSTITUTE... 23
1. DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS... 23
2. DEPARTMENT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS APPLICATIONS... 29
3. DEPARTMENT OF DETECTORS AND NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS ... 33
5. DEPARTMENT OF PLASMA PHYSICS AND MATERIAL ENGINEERING .... 37
6. DEPARTMENT OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ... 45
7. DEPARTMENT OF COSMIC RAY PHYSICS ... 51
8. DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS ... 57
9. DEPARTMENT OF ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY... 63
10. LABORATORY OF ASTROPHYSICAL APPARATUS... 67
11. DEPARTMENT OF TRAINING AND CONSULTING... 73
12. DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT “HIGH TECHNOLOGY CENTER – HITEC” ... 77
13. DIVISION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ... 79
III. REPORTS ON RESEARCH ... 81
ASTROPHYSICS, COSMIC RAYS AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS... 83
NUCLEAR PHYSICS ... 109
PLASMA PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY ... 129
DETECTORS, ACCELERATORS, PHYSICS OF MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS 139 IV. OBITUARIES... 169
V. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ... 173
VI. AUTHOR INDEX... 191
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FOREWORD
The year 2009 turned out to be “nuclear year” in Poland. On January 13 the government launched preparations for the Polish Nuclear Power Program. An ambitious goal has been set to build the first power plant by 2020. The program involves public authorities, commercial investors and research support. The strategic document “Energy policy of Poland till 2030” assigned the third role to the Polish nuclear research institutes, including IPJ. They will join forces to form the National Laboratory for Nuclear Research. The procedure for the necessary legislation has been initiated and the creation of the new Lab. is expected by 2011.
In the meantime the institutes have begun preparations, taking advantage of European structural funds available this year. IPJ has received positive decisions on three major projects.
A Computing Center at wierk will provide high computing power for safety evaluation of nuclear reactors with deterministic and probabilistic codes. The scope of the new Computing Center under construction at wierk enables it to play a national and international role. It will support the Polish authorities in nuclear safety evaluation in accordance with the standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency and EURATOM. The experts engaged in setting up the Center have considerable experience with massive computing at CERN. They have participated from the very beginning in the various GRID projects including the creation of the Polish nodes. These assets are planned to be used in setting up a network communication center for the nuclear safety assessment of nuclear installations, which will serve the IAEA and its member states. The project is funded within the framework of the “Operational Program Innovative Economy”.
Two other projects called briefly “Techno-Park” and “5 labs” are awaiting signature of the agreements with the local authorities realizing the “Regional Operational Program of Mazovia”.
Techno-Park will be an interface between the research conducted in wierk and industry. It is expected that high-tech companies will come to wierk to profit from the knowledge of our experts and to make use of our research infrastructure. The upgrade of this infrastructure is foreseen in the
“5 labs” project. It is designed to support research which will be important in the context of the nuclear power program.
It is well known that "there can be no applied science unless there is science to apply"1. IPJ exploits the synergy between fundamental research and applied studies in a very constructive way.
A solid base for the nuclear power program lies in our great experience in nuclear and particle physics.
The most important achievements of IPJ in 2009 have been in these fields.
IPJ achievement of the year 2009 has been granted to dr Nicholas Keeley for co-authorship of an experimental study of the 8He-197Au reaction (performed at GANIL) and the explanation of the observed fusion hindrance above the Coulomb barrier by including transfer of neutrons within the coupled channels formalism 2.
Dr hab. Lech Szymanowski has been distinguished for co-authorship of the theoretical analysis of an elementary process which can provide information on the chiral-odd distribution of the quark transversal spin polarization in the proton in forthcoming experiments3.
The practical experience needed for the nuclear power program is being collected by IPJ teams participating in the design and construction of major European research infrastructures. Enormous detectors built for LHC experiments at CERN have just demonstrated their performance with cosmic rays and the first proton-proton collisions. The CMS muon trigger, LHCb straw tube chambers and ALICE photon spectrometer (PHOS), all constructed with significant participation from IPJ,
1 W.C. Mendenhall, in G.O. Smith, U.S. Geological Survey 49th Annual Report, 1928, p. 8
2 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 232701, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 63 (2009) 396
3 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 072002
successfully registered particles passing through. The first elements for the upgrade of the CERN accelerators to reach the LHC design parameters have been delivered and a new contract is in preparation. Construction of the 3.4 km long X-ray Free Electron Laser at DESY (Hamburg) has just started, where IPJ contributes to the LLRF electronics and Higher Order Mode Absorbers for the accelerating cavities. IPJ also joined the design efforts for the European Spallation Source in Sweden and detectors for the FAIR heavy-ion research complex in GSI (Darmstadt). Also, the preparatory phase for construction of the Neutral Beam Injection elements for the thermonuclear reactor W7-X in Greifswald has been completed by IPJ. All these devices are characterized by a high level of radiation, large size and extensive use of advanced technologies. Therefore, they provide unique experience necessary for all kinds of large nuclear installations, including power reactors.
The great excitement about the LHC startup was overshadowed by the sudden death of Professor Jan Nassalski. In a short moment we have lost the Scientific Director of IPJ, the Polish representative on the CERN Council, an eminent scientist, teacher of teachers and good friend of many of us. We will all do our best to continue his work, to realize his dream of a strong international position for Polish science with every pupil being aware and proud of it.
Looking into the future we will continue the design effort for the Polish free electron laser POLFEL, to be built in wierk. New ideas have been recently developed extending POLFEL's capabilities towards an exciting and promising for new technologies region of terahertz radiation.
More and more users in Poland and abroad are expressing their interest in the project, including materials researchers, chemists and biologists. The POLFEL proposal has been submitted to the Polish roadmap for large research infrastructures, and we hope to obtain finance from EU structural funds for the first stage of the project. Once realized, it will be the largest and most modern research device in the “new” European countries.
Prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Wrochna
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I. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Institute is a state owned laboratory. It conducts pure and applied research in subatomic physics, i.e. elementary particle, astroparticle, plasma physics, low and high energy nuclear physics, and related fields. The Institute specializes in accelerator physics and technology, materials research with nuclear techniques, the development of spectrometric techniques, nuclear electronics and also in applications of nuclear techniques to environmental research, nuclear medicine etc.
Apart from scientific departments, there is a separate production unit operating within the Institute - ZdAJ (the Establishment for Nuclear Equipment). This unit specializes in medical equipment, notably in the production of linear electron accelerators for oncology and in the production of linear accelerators for industry.
1. LOCATIONS
Main site: Warsaw site: ód site:
30 km SE from Warsaw (departments P-I, P-VI, P-VIII) (department P-VII)
wierk, 69 Hoa street 5 Uniwersytecka street
05-400 Otwock 00-681 Warsaw 90-950 ód
2. MANAGEMENT OF THE INSTITUTE
Director Professor Grzegorz WROCHNA
phone: (22) 718-05-83, (22) 553-22-54
e-mail: Grzegorz.Wrochna@fuw.edu.pl
Deputy Director, Science Professor Jan NASSALSKI † (till August 5)
(from October 21) Professor Krzysztof MEISSNER phone: (22) 718-04-72
e-mail: K.Meissner@ipj.gov.pl
Deputy Director, Research and Development MSc. Zbigniew GOBIEWSKI
phone: (22)718-05-82
e-mail: z.golebiewski@ipj.gov.pl
Scientific Secretary Associate Professor Janusz SKALSKI phone: (22) 718-05-85, (22) 553-22-41
e-mail: Jskalski@fuw.edu.pl
Spokesman Dr. Marek PAWOWSKI
phone: (22)553-22-36
e-mail: rzecznik@ipj.gov.pl
(†) deceased
3. SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL
The Scientific Council was elected on 1 April 2008 by the scientific, technical and administrative staff of the Institute. The Council has the right to confer PhD and habilitation degrees in physics (DSc).
Representatives of scientific staff:
Helena Biakowska, Professor, Deputy Chairperson Marek Sadowski, Professor, Deputy Chairman Robert Kiesznia, Dr. Adam Sobiczewski, Professor
Ryszard Kisiel, Dr. Ryszard Sosnowski, Professor, Chairman Tadeusz Kozowski, Dr. Joanna Stepaniak, Professor
Marek Pawowski, Dr. Zbigniew Werner, Assoc. Prof.
Ewa Rondio, Professor Sawomir Wronka, Dr., Deputy Chairman Krzysztof Rusek, Assoc. Prof. Sawomir Wycech, Professor
Representatives of technical personnel:
Jan Kope, MSc.
Jerzy Olszewski, MSc.
Andrzej Polak, MSc.
Jacek Pracz, MSc.
Krystyna Traczyk, MSc.
External members:
Danuta Kisielewska, Professor - AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow Pawe Kukoowicz, Dr. - wi tokrzyskie Cancer Center, Kielce
Krystyna awniczak-Jaboska, Professor - Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw
Piotr Malecki, Professor - The Niewodniczaski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków
Tomasz Matulewicz, Professor - Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw
Krzysztof Meissner, Professor - Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw
Marek Pajek, Professor - Institute of Physics, the Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Kielce
Stanisaw Grzegorz Rohoziski, Professor - Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw
Micha Waligórski, Professor - Centre of Oncology,
The Maria Skodowska-Curie Institute, Kraków Janusz Ziókowski, Professor - The N. Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw
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4. DEPARTMENTS OF THE INSTITUTE
- NUCLEAR REACTIONS (P-I)
Head of Department – Dr. Bohdan MARIA SKI
- INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS APPLICATIONS (P-II) Head of Department – Dr. Jan SERNICKI
- DETECTORS AND NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS (P-III) Head of Department – Assoc. Prof. Zbigniew GUZIK
- PLASMA PHYSICS AND MATERIAL ENGINEERING (P-V) Head of Department – Dr. Marek RABI SKI
- HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (P-VI)
Head of Department - Professor Helena BIAKOWSKA - COSMIC RAY PHYSICS (P-VII)
Head of Department – Dr. Jacek SZABELSKI - THEORETICAL PHYSICS (P-VIII)
Head of Department – Professor Grzegorz WILK
- ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY (P-X) Head of Department – Dr. Sawomir WRONKA
- LABORATORY OF ASTROPHYSICAL APPARATUS (NL) Head of Laboratory – Dr. Tadeusz BATSCH
- TRAINING AND CONSULTING (DSz)
Director of Department - Professor Ludwik DOBRZY SKI - NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT (ZdAJ)
Director of Department - Dr. Pawe KRAWCZYK
Other units:
- DIVISION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DI)
Head of Division – MSc. Eng. Jacek SZLACHCIAK phone: (22) 718-05-35 - TRANSPORT DIVISION (ZTS)
Director, Civ. Eng. Bogdan GAS phone: (22) 718-06-16
5. MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
I. Elementary particle physics, astro- & cosmic ray physics and cosmology 1. Mechanism of hadron-induced reactions
2. High-energy e+e- interactions 3. Deep-inelastic P interactions 4. Nucleon structure
5. Rare decays
6. Baryon resonances and near threshold meson production 7. R&D for ILC detectors
8. Neutrino physics
9. Astrophysics: optical detection of short bursts, large-scale structure, dark matter 10. Cosmic ray physics
11. Cosmology
12. Theory of lepton and hadron interactions
II. Nuclear physics
1. Relativistic ion collisions 2. Nuclear reactions
3. Nuclear structure
4. Properties of heavy and superheavy nuclei (theory)
5. Theory of nuclear matter, hypernuclei & nuclear structure and dynamics 6. High-energy atomic physics
7. Exotic atoms
III. Plasma physics and technology
1. Development of methods and tools for plasma diagnostics
2. Studies of light emitted from hot plasma jets and jet interaction with solid targets 3. Thin Nb and Pb film coating by means of arc discharges under ultra-high vacuum
conditions
4. Nonlinear effects in extended media & Bose-Einstein condensates (theory)
IV. Materials studies
1. Modification of surface properties of solid materials by means of continuous or pulsed ion and plasma beams
2. Material structure studies by nuclear methods
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V. Accelerator physics and techniques
1. R&D of linear accelerators for high-energy electrons 2. Accelerators for hadron therapy
3. Small electron accelerators for X-ray therapy
4. Optimization of TiN coating processes for accelerating structures
VI. Detector physics and techniques
1. New detection methods and their application in physics experiments, nuclear medicine and homeland security
2. Electronics for large-scale experiments in high-energy physics 3. Systems for nuclear radiation spectroscopy
4. R&D of special silicon detectors for physics experiments and environment protection
VII. Nuclear methods for society
1. Monitoring, modelling and prediction of environmental pollution 2. Dosimetry and nano-dosimetry
3. Computer modeling of radiation sources, transport of radiation through matter and radiation dose calculations
4. X-ray sources for medicine and industry
6. SCIENTIFIC STAFF OF THE INSITUTE
PROFESSORS
1. BIAKOWSKA Helena High Energy Nuclear Physics 2. BOCKI Jan Theoretical Nuclear Physics 3. D BROWSKI Janusz (**) Theoretical Nuclear Physics 4. DOBRZY SKI Ludwik Solid State Physics
5. INFELD Eryk Plasma Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics 6. JAGIELSKI Jacek (**) Solid State Physics
7. JASKÓA Marian (**) Low Energy Nuclear Physics 8. KRÓLAK Andrzej (**) Gravitation Theory
9. MOSZY SKI Marek Nuclear Electronics, Technical Physics 10. MRÓWCZY SKI Stanisaw (**) Particle Physics
11. MEISSNER Krzysztof Partcile Physics and Gravitation Theory 12. NASSALSKI Jan Particle Physics
13. PIEKOSZEWSKI Jerzy Solid State Physics 14. RONDIO Ewa Particle Physics 15. RUSEK Krzysztof (**) Low Energy Nuclear Physics 16. SADOWSKI Marek Plasma Physics
17. SIEMIARCZUK Teodor Particle and High Energy Nuclear Physics 18. SOBICZEWSKI Adam Theoretical Physics, Member of the Polish
Academy of Sciences
19. SOSNOWSKI Ryszard Particle Physics, Member of the Polish
Academy of Sciences
20. STEPANIAK Joanna High Energy Nuclear Physics 21. SZEPTYCKA Maria (**) Particle Physics
22. TUROS Andrzej (**) Solid State Physics
23. WILCZY SKI Janusz Low Energy Nuclear Physics 24. WILK Grzegorz Particle Physics 25. WILICKI Wojciech Particle Physics
26. WROCHNA Grzegosz Particle and Astroparticle Physics 27. WYCECH Sawomir Nuclear and Particle Physics 28. ZABIEROWSKI Janusz Cosmic Ray Physics
29. ZDUNEK Krzysztof Plasma and Materials Physics
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS and DSc
1. DELOFF Andrzej (**) Particle Physics 2. GUZIK Zbigniew Nuclear Electronics
3. KACZAROWSKI Ro cisaw Low Energy Nuclear Physics 4. KIECZEWSKA Danuta (**) Particle Physics
5. PATYK Zygmunt Theoretical Nuclear Physics 6. PIASECKI Ernest (**) Low Energy Nuclear Physics 7. PIECHOCKI Wodzimierz Cosmology
8. ROSZKOWSKI Leszek (*) Particle Physics and Cosmology 9. SANDACZ Andrzej Particle Physics
10. SKALSKI Janusz Theoretical Nuclear Physics 11. SAPA Mieczysaw (**) Solid State Physics
12. SPALI SKI Micha Particle Physics and Cosmology 13. SZCZEKOWSKI Marek Particle Physics
14. SZYMANOWSKI Lech Theoretical Nuclear Physics 15. SZYMA SKI Piotr (*) Particle Physics
16. TYMIENIECKA Teresa Particle Physics
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17. WERNER Zbigniew Solid State Physics 18. WIBIG Tadeusz (**) Cosmic Ray Physics 19. ZWIGLI SKI Bogusaw Nuclear Physics
20. UPRA SKI Pawe (**) High Energy Nuclear Physics
RESEARCH STAFF 1. ADAMUS Marek 2. ADRICH Przemysaw 3. AUGUSTYNIAK Witold 4. BARLAK Marek
5. BATSCH Tadeusz
6. BIE KOWSKI Andrzej (**) 7. BLUJ Micha (*)
8. BOIMSKA Boena
9. CHMIELEWSKA Danuta (**) 10. CHMIELOWSKI Wadysaw (*) 11. CZARNACKI Wiesaw
12. CZUCHRY Ewa 13. GIERLIK Micha
14. GOKIELI Ryszard 15. GOLDSTEIN Piotr 16. GÓRSKI Maciej 17. HOFFMAN Julia (*) 18. JAKUBOWSKI Lech (**) 19. KAPUSTA Maciej (*) 20. KAZANA Magorzata 21. KEELEY Nicholas 22. KISIEL Ryszard 23. KORMAN Andrzej 24. KOWAL Micha
25. KOWALIK Katarzyna (*) 26. KOZOWSKI Tadeusz 27. KUP Andrzej (*) 28. KUREK Krzysztof 29. AGODA Justyna 30. MAJCZYNA Agnieszka 31. MALINOWSKA Aneta 32. MARIA SKI Bogdan 33. MARCINIEWSKI Piotr (*) 34. MORSCH Hans Peter (*) 35. MYKULYAK Andriy (**) 36. NAWROCKI Krzysztof 37. NAWROT Adam (**) 38. NIETUBY Robert
39. NOWAKOWSKA-LANGIER Katarzyna 40. NOWICKI Lech (**)
41. PAWOWSKI Marek 42. PLUCI SKI Pawe (*) 43. PAWSKI Eugeniusz
44. POCHRYBNIAK Cezary 45. POLA SKI Aleksander (*) 46. POLLO Agnieszka
47. PSZONA Stanisaw 48. RABI SKI Marek 49. ROYNEK Jacek 50. RUCHOWSKA Ewa 51. RZADKIEWICZ Jacek (*) 52. SENATORSKI Andrzej (**) 53. SERNICKI Jan
54. SKADNIK-SADOWSKA Elbieta (**) 55. SKORUPSKI Andrzej (**)
56. SMOLA CZUK Robert 57. SOKOOWSKI Marcin 58. SOWI SKI Mieczysaw (**) 59. STONERT Anna
60. SULEJ Robert
61. SUKOWSKI Piotr (*)
62. SYNTFELD-KAUCH Agnieszka 63. WIDERSKI ukasz
64. SZABELSKA Barbara 65. SZABELSKI Jacek 66. SZLEPER Micha
67. SZYDOWSKI Adam 68. SZYMCZYK Wadysaw 69. TRACZYK Piotr (*) 70. TRZCI SKI Andrzej 71. UKLEJA Artur 72. UYCKI Janusz 73. WAGNER Jakub 74. WASILEWSKI Adam 75. WINCEL Krzysztof
76. WOJTKOWSKA Jolanta (**) 77. WOLSKI Dariusz
78. WRONKA Sawomir 79. WYSOCKA-RABIN Anna 80. ZALEWSKI Piotr
81. ZALIPSKA Joanna (*) 82. ZARBA Barbara 83. ZI Pawe
84. ZYCHOR Izabella 85. EBROWSKI Jarosaw
(*) on leave of absence (**) part-time employee
7. VISITING SCIENTISTS
1. S. Munier Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France Jan.7-11 P-VIII 2. V. Plyusnin Instituto de Plasmas Fusao Nuclear, Lisbona, Portugal Jan.12-20 P-V 3. B. Grosswendt Die Physikalich-Technische Bundesanstalt,
Brunsweig, Germany Feb.15-19 P-II
4. M. El Belyad Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France Feb.22-March 1 P-VIII 5. E. Koshchy Kharkiv State University, Kharkiv, Ukraine March 5-28 P-I 6. F. Garrido Centre de Spectrometrie Nucleare et de
Spectrometrie de Masse, Orsay, France April 14-25 P-I 7. B. Grosswendt Die Physikalich-Technische Bundesanstalt,
Brunsweig, Germany April 26-30 P-II
8. Ch. Pauly Institute for Nuclear Research, Julich, Germany May 18-20 P-VI 9. N. Capdevielle College de France, Paris, France July 5-16 P-VII 10. P. Doll Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany July 7-16 P-VII 11. I. Tsserruy Waizman Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel July 11-14 P-VIII 12. B. Schenke Mac Gill University, Montreal, Canada July 12-17 P-VI
13. M. Strickland Gettysburg College, Pennsylwania, USA July 12-19 P-VI
14. P. Mine Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France July 23-25 P-VIII
15. G. Rowlands Warwick University, UK Sept.21-28 P-VIII
16. B. Grosswendt Die Physikalich-Technische Bundesanstalt,
Brunsweig, Germany Sept.23-26 P-II
17. V. Abrosimov Inst. for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine Sept. 25-Oct.3 P-II
18. P. Mller Los Alamos, USA Sept.27-29 P-VIII
19. A. Magner Inst. for Nuclear Research, Kiev, Ukraine Sept.27-Oct.10 P-II
20. H. Geissel GSI-Darmstadt, Germany Dec.15-18 P-VIII
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8. GRANTS
List of research projects realized in 2009, granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
1. Structure and properties of heaviest atomic nuclei Principal Investigator: Prof. A. Sobiczewski No. 1P03B04230
2. Influence of weak couplings on the structure of Coulomb barrier distribution: application of coupled channel method
Principal Investigator: Dr. E. Piasecki No. N20215231/2796
3. New experimental method for characterization of physical stage of Auger electrons interaction with nanostructures (DNA, nucleosome, chromatid fibre) based on registration of ionization cluster distribution as a tool for defining the effectiveness of targeted radionuclide (I-125) radiotherapy
Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Pszona No. N N401 216134
4. Investigation of cosmic rays of the energy above 1015 eV with the air shower technique using data from the KASCADE-Grande experiment based in Karlsruhe, Germany
Principal Investigator: Prof. J. Zabierowski No. N N202 033836
5. Nuclear interaction of hiperons
Principal Investigator: Prof. J. Dbrowski No. N N202 046237
6. Structure of 8He and its effect on elastic scattering Principal Investigator: Prof. K. Rusek
No. N N202 033637
7. Investigation on decoherence and CPT symmetry in systems of K mesons at the KLOE-2 experiment Principal Investigator: Prof. W.Wilicki
No. N N202 046937
8. Influence of the nanostructure on the magnetic properties of metallic layers produced by the plasma surface engineering methods
Principal Investigator: Dr. K. Nowakowska-Langier No. N N507 474337
9. Diluted magnetic semiconductors formed by high-energy plasma pules Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Z. Werner
No. N N507 473137
10. The Milne space as a model of the cosmological singularity Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. W. Piechocki
No. N N202 0542 33
11. A study of neutrino, interactions constituting the background to electron neutrino appearance in T2K experiment
Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. D. Kieczewska No. N N202 0299 33
12. Determination of the gluon polarisation in the nucleon using events with hadron pairs at high transverse momenta in COMPASS experiment
Principal investigator: Prof. J. Nassalski No. N N202 259534
13. Direct and indirect searches for Dark Matter particles Principal Investigator: Prof. E. Rondio
No. N N202 175735
14. Common PET/CT detector
Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Moszyski No. N N518 001336
15. Copper-wettable surfaces of carbon and carbide ceramic produced by high intensity plasma pulses technique Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Barlak
No. N N507394235
16. New neutron detection techniques for industry and border monitoring applications Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Moszyski
No. R00-O0054/3
17. Universal spectrometric analyzer for applications in environment protection, security systems and nuclear medicine
Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Z. Guzik No. R02 003 03
18. Medical dosimetry of the electronic sources of X rays for brachytherapy. Development of the measuring methods for acredited dosimetry laboratory
Principal Investigator: MSc. M. Traczyk No. R13 005 03
19. Optimisation of the CMS detector trigger for Beyond Standard Model searches Principal Investigator: Dr. M. Kazana
No. PBZ/MNiSW/07/2006/38
20. Statistics of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe: between theory and observations Principal Investigator: Dr. A. Pollo
No. PBZ/MNiSW/07/2006/34
21. Verifying dynamical stability of the Cyclic Model Principal Investigator: Dr. E Czuchry
No. PBZ/MNiSW/07/2006/37
22. Optimization and calibration of the SMRD detector in the T2K neutrino experiment Principal Investigator: Dr. J. agoda
No. PBZ/MNiSW/072006/36
23. COMPASS experiment - investigation of the spin stucture of the nucleon Principal Investigator: Prof. J. Nassalski/Assoc. Prof. A.Sandacz No. CERN/74/2007 (Program CERN)
24. Production of electron-pozytron pairs in decays of light mesons and baryonic resonances Principal Investigation: Prof. J. Stepaniak
No. DFG/126/2007 (Program DFG)
25. Construction of elements of Neutral Beam Injectors to be used in W7-X stellarator: preparatory phase Principal Investigation: Prof. J.Jagielski
No. NW7X/129/2007
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Program W7X)26. Calculations, design, production and measurements of beam line HOM absorber prototype and prototype of HOM suppression system for superconducting accelerating structures of X-FEL facility
Principal Investigator: Dr. E. Pawski No. DWM/N5/XFEL/2008 (Program XFEL)
27. Modeling of the ionization cluster distributions in the nano-structures as new descriptors of radiation action of low and high energy electrons applied for targeted radiotherapy, especially for I-125 and I-131
Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Pszona
No. DPN/N40/COST/2009 (COST-Action BM0607)
28. Investigation of physical processes and erosion mechanisms under high-power plasma interaction with material surfaces relevant to fusion reactor ITER. Development of spectral methods for analysis of plasma- surface interaction
Principal Investigator: Dr. E. Skadnik-Sadowska No. DPN/N112/UKRAINA/2009
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29. Free Electron Laser XFEL Projct. Designing, manufacturing and measurements of the two, new prototypes of HOM absorbers. Designing and manufacturing of 3 prototypes of the control units for high frequency stabilisation in accelerating structures. Manufacturing of the systems for ettenuation of HOMs in three superconducting accelerating structure modules for XFEL system
Principal Investigator: Dr. E. Pawski No. DPN/N24/XFEL/2009
In addition to the above, several of our scientists are principal investigators in grants coordinated by other institutions.
Research Projects Granted by Foreign Institutions
1. Synthesis of New Nuclei, Study of Nuclear Properties and Heavy Ion Mechanism Principal Investigator: Prof. A. Sobiczewski
JINR Dubna, Russia
2. Participation in Designing and Testing of Photomultipliers Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Moszyski
Contract of PHOTONIS, Brive, France
3. Additions and Modifications of the Microstrip Detector Assemblies Principal Investigator: Dr. T. Batsch
Order No. 125/41780516, Germany
4. Investigation of neutron detectors based om liquid organic scintillators for application in portal monitors Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Moszyski
Contract with ICx Radiation GmbH, Solingen, Germany
5. Design Review, Engineering Development, Realisation and Delivery of the First Module of the Intermediate Energy Booster of the TOP LINAC (TOP - Terapia Oncologia Con Protoni)
Principal Investigator: Dr. E. Pawski
Order No. Prot. ENEA/2005/14909 FIS-stg., Italy
6. Development of new detectors for the border monitoring based on new scintillators and photodetectors Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Moszyski
Contract No: 14360, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
7. Low Level RF development for X-ray Free Electron Laser Principal Investigator: MSc. J. Szewiski
Contract: 39706, DESY, Germany
8. Investigation of Cosmic Ray Shower Development by Muon Tracking with the Kascade-Grande Experiment Principal Investigator: Prof. J. Zabierowski
Contract for 2009-2010 PPP-DAAD, Germany
9. Participation in calculations and design of the proton linac in European Spallation Source project.
Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Wronka
Collaboration Agreement between Lund University and The An. Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ)
Research Projects (Indirect Actions) Granted by the European Commission and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
1. EURATOM
Developmemt of the selected diagnostic techniques (Cherenkov detectors, SSNTD and fusion neutron detectors) within a frame of EURATOM nuclear fusion programme
Responsible for the work: Dr. M. Rabiski
Contract of Association between the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, FU07-CT-2007-00061, FP7-EURATOM
2. EuCARD
Superconducting Radio Frequency technology for high energy electron linacs Responsible for the work: Dr. R. Nietuby
Grant Agreement Number 227579, FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1
9. PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL CONSORTIA AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS
NATIONAL CONSORTIUM: Institute representative:
1.* Nuclear Science Center G. Wrochna
2.* National Consortium “XFEL-POLAND” G. Wrochna/Z. Werner for collaboration with the European X-ray Free
Electron Laser - Project XFEL
3. National Consortium “High Temperature Nuclear Reactor in Poland” G. Wrochna/M. Pawowski
4. National Consortium “FEMTOFIZYKA” B. Zwi gliski
for collaboration with the FAIR project in GSI Darmstadt
5. National Consortium “COPIN” K. Rusek
for scientific collaboration with France (IN2P3 Institute)
6. Agreement for scientific collaboration in theoretical research on: W. Piechocki “Particles-Astrophysics-Cosmology”
7. National Consortium for Hadron Radiotherapy (NCRH) G. Wrochna/A. Wysocka-Rabin 8. National Consortium of scientific Network “Polish calculation system W. Wi licki
for experiments at LHC-POLTIER”
9. Warsaw Science Consortium G. Wrochna / M. Juszczyk
10. “Polish Synchrotron” Consortium R. Nietuby
SCIENTIFIC NETWORK: Institute representative:
1.* Polish Astroparticle Physics Network G. Wrochna
2.* Polish Neutrino Physics Network D. Kieczewska
3. Polish Nuclear Physics Network D. Chmielewska
4. Polish Network of Physics of Relativistic Ion Collisions St. Mrówczyski 5. Integrated Large Infrastructure for Astroparticle Science (ILIAS) W. Piechocki
European Network for Theoretical Astroparticle Physics (ENTApP)
6. Polish Network of Neutrons-emission-detection J. Szydowski 7. Polish Network of Neutron Scatterers (NeutroNET) L. Dobrzyski 8. Polish Network of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety L. Dobrzyski
* Coordinator: The Andrzej Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ)
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10. DEGREES
Professor title
1. ERNEST PIASECKI (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-wierk) 2. KRZYSZTOF WIETESKA (Institute of Atomic Energy POLATOM)
3. ZBIGNIEW WODARCZYK (Institute of Physics, the Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Kielce)
4. GRZEGORZ WROCHNA (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-wierk)
DSc theses
1. JACEK SEKUTOWICZ (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-wierk)
Multi-cell superconducting structures for high energy e+e- colliders and free electron laser LINACS
PhD theses
1. PRZEMYSAW MAKIEWICZ (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-wierk) Modelling cosmological singularity with compactified Milne space.
11. THE GENERAL CONCEPT OF THE FREE ELECTRON LASER POLFEL AT THE SOTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES
The fabulous properties of the coherent radiation generated by free electron lasers (FEL) open broad perspectives for experimental capabilities in physics, chemistry, biology, materials engineering and medicine.
We propose to install a high average power VUV FEL facility, POLFEL, at the Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies in wierk. POLFEL is planned as a node of the EuroFEL network of complementary facilities, recommended by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI).
A number of nuclear and high energy physics laboratories have already decided to extend their scientific scope by constructing an accelerator based source of electromagnetic radiation and employing it to investigate otherwise innaccesible phenomena.
Examples are DESY, SLAC, LURE, PSI, INFN. This seems to be the most effective way to extend the benefits of the rich expertise cultivated at those sites.
There are three unequalled characteristics of the VUV radiation emitted by FEL, which are often named as its fundamental advantages: femtosecond pulse duration, huge peak brilliance and high average intensity. As the first two are adequately covered in existing facilities or those in an advanced phase of construction: FLASH, FERMI and LCLS, we turn our efforts towards the last mentioned parameter – the
average power. The principal goal, which dictates our approach, is to enable experiments requiring maximization of the time-integrated number of interacting photons: spectroscopic, imaging, and warm dense plasma experiments dealing with diluted samples, or processes occurring with a low probability or requiring a high energy dose deposited on the surface. This research may be complemented by photo-induced materials processing, medical imaging and surgery applications.
Injector. One of the main limitations precluding the emission of a large number of photons per second is the millisecond duration of the radio frequency (rf) pulse. In existing and proposed facilities based on sc linacs, this disadvantage results from the normal conducting electron injectors, which can only operate in the low duty factor pulse mode when they generate low emittance highly populated beams. For POLFEL we propose a fully sc injector, based on a lead photocathode. Lead film one micrometer in thickness has been chosen due to the superconducting properties of Pb below its critical temperature of 7.32 K and high, compared to other superconducting materials (e.g. Nb), quantum efficiency.
The UHV cathodic arc – based technology of the Pb film deposition onto the back wall of the cavity has been established and is currently being implemented
and optimized in the Plasma Physics and Technology Department P5. A number of TESLA type injectors were furnished with a Pb thin film photocathode. This technique, developed at IPJ, represents a significant contribution to the wide research and development cooperation within the framework of the European Coordination in Accelerator Research and Developemnt (EuCARD) and IRUVX enterprises.
Cryomodules and cryogenics. The object marked number 2 in the figure represents a complete chain of cryogenic modules housing TESLA-like niobum cavities cooled to a temperature of 2 K by superfluid helium. The cavities are immersed in a vessel thermally isolated from the laboratory environment by intermediate zones kept at a temperature of 40 – 80 K.
Each cryomodule contains nine-cell accelerating structures, fed by a 1.3 GHz rf power supply system with couplers ranging across the three thermal zones of the module Each structure contains a piezzo tuner and two absorbers of higher order modes. They work with an accelerating gradient from 9 MVm-1 up to 27 MVm-1 dependent on the duty cycle. Each cryomodule contains electron beam position monitors, an electromagnetic system for beam trace correction, and an ion vacuum pump. All elements are wired with cables crossing the thermal zones.
1 – electron injector, 2 – cryomodules, 3 – UV laser activating photocathode, 4 – microwave source (IOT), 5- synchronization and diagnostic system, 6 – cryogenics, 7 – electron beam dump, 8 – electron beam compressor and collimator, 9 – undulator, 10 – photon diagnostics system, 11 photon beamlines, 12 – experimental chambers
The cryogenic system is based on a 500 W cooler.
Pressurized helium is expanded with Joule Thompson valves into the two phase transfer line guiding it to the vessels containing the niobium structures. The boiled helium is recovered through the gas return pipe. Heat losses below 6 W per 9-cell structure at 2 K are expected for a 9 MVm-1 gradient.
Two kinds of cryomodules are being considered:
short housing 2 nine-cell structures and long with 8 structures. Finally, up to 4 short and 6 long cryomodules are foreseen for the final version of the accelerator, enabling electron energy of about 1 GeV.
UV laser for the photocathode initialization. The lead photocathode will be initiated with a Nd:YAG laser providing light of fifth harmonic wavelength equal to 213 nm in pulses of 1J in energy and 20 ps duration, repeated at a rate of 100 kHz.
Microwave source. The microwave power will be provided by Inductive Output Tubes (IOT).
Depending on technical and commercial availability, 30, 60 or 120 kW source will be employed for two, four or eight 9-cell structures. IOT is a modern high power rf electromagnetic wave source. In contrast to a
klystron, IOT bunches the electrons by using density modulation rather than velocity modulation, resulting in:
easy switching between pulse and cw operation modes,
higher DC/RF Power conversion efficiency,
smaller sensitivity to DC unstability,
lower life-time cost.
Synchronization, control and diagnostics system.
This includes real time measuring and optimization of the rf field, measurements of the electron beam propagation parameters and safety interlock. To control the field in the cavities, a digital feedback system based on digital signal processing will be used.
The analog part of the system must assure low-noise field detection and precise synchronization over a length of several hundred meters. The digital electronics must perform effective real time signal processing based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices and digital signal processors (DSP).
In particular, the ATCA and uTCA standards are considered for electronics panels while VME is considered as a backup solution.
Electron beam compressor and collimation. The length of the electron bunch is reduced in magnetic chicanes. A magnetic field separates the faster electrons from the slower and directs them to longer paths. As a result they are retarded and caught by the slower, allowing the bunch length to be reduced to a few tens of micrometers and a peak current in the range of tens of kiloamper. Subsequently, collimating slits shape the electron beam entering the undulator, defining the beam position in the undulator channel and protecting its magnets from damaging exposure to energetic electrons.
Undulators. A 20 m long, single track of APPLE II – type (Advanced, Planar Polarised Light Emitter) [16, 17] permanent magnet undulators will be installed behind the accelerator, assuring tunability across various orientations of linear and elliptical polarization and wavelength tuning without changing the linac parameters. The whole system will be divided into 10 sections. Each section will contain about 50 periods of magnetic structure, each period including four magnets.
Electron beam collector. Behind the undulator, the electron beam is deflected toward the beam collector.
It is capable of absorbing 100 kW of electron beam power and avoiding overheating and secondary radiation, mostly gamma and neutrons. A detailed project for the collector will be prepared in IPJ based on our own expertise and the experience of other accelerator facilities.
Photon beam diagnostics.The aim of this system is to provide complete data on the light generated by the laser. In particular: pulse energy and duration time, wavelength spectrum, beam polarization, size, divergence and wavefront shape. These parameters
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define the experimental conditions for users working at the experimental stations and present feedback information for steering and optimizing the facility.
The photon diagnostics system contains a gas photoionisation detector, spectrometers, wave front detectors, an auxiliary synchronized laser and fast oscilloscope.
Beamline optics and experimental stations. The light pulse will be directed to the experimental chambers by means of a switching mirror located directly behind the diagnostics system. Optical elements: slits, lenses and mirrors shape the beam according to the requirements of the experiment. The optical path is kept in ultrahigh vacuum conditions in order to avoid oxide and hydrocarbons impurities on the optical elements and beam attenuation in a gaseous atmosphere. They save the light wavefront and focus the beam at the interaction point located in the sample held by the manipulator installed in the experimental chamber and surrounded by the measurement instruments. Parts of them including light spectrometers, electron detectors, are permanently installed in the chamber. A synchronized auxiliary Vis-UV laser will be installed together with an appropriate pulse distribution system in order to enable pumping and probe experiments. The other instruments, dedicated to a particular experiment, will be temporarily mounted by users into appropriate ports. In general, a particular beamline is capable of satisfying one of two needs, which cannot be satisfied together: high energy resolution and high flux. An experimental chamber furnished with differential pumping pipes enables experiments in a gaseous environment at pressures up to 10-3 mbar.
The range of scientific applications expected for the proposed light source can be categorized under the following topics: imaging of sub-micrometric objects, plasma physics, ultra-fast phenomena, and physics of atoms, molecular clusters and solid state, photo- induced processes in technology. They all impose unique experimental conditions, requirements for beam parameters and instrumentation.
Civil engineering. The whole facility will be housed in four buildings dedicated to:
rf supply and diagnostics system, control room
cryogenics supply system,
accelerator tunnel with beam collector,
experimental hall with beamlines, workshops, laboratories and office space.
Time schedule. The project is planned to be realized in two stages. The first will be dedicated to srf electron injector implementation and exploiting it to feed a short cw linac based on 4 short cryomodules.
The linac will provide an up to 150 MeV electron beam which, passing through the 10 m long planar undulator, will generate light in the visible range (fundamental). In the second stage, the linac will be extended by a number of long cryomodules and will provide 1 GeV beam in the maximal option. Six beamlines will be constructed and routinely operated in the frame of transnational access granted to scientific and industrial users. Selected topics related to FEL technology i.e development of photocathodes, synchronization, photon diagnostics and experimental techniques will be permanently investigated bringing, besides the results of the experiments, a new contribution to the IPJ activities.
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cryomodules,
photocathode laser microwave source
synchron. and diagn.
cryogenics,
compressor, collimator,
undulator
Beam collector
photon diagnostics , beamlines and experim.
civil engineering
min<600 nm min<10 nm 1st stage 2nd stage permanent development
Robert Nietuby
THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER – HOW DOES IT WORK?
A TRAVELLING EXHIBITION
IPJ participated in developing the successful Polish travelling exhibition, The Large Hadron Collider – How does it work? Organized by a group of Polish institutions taking part in the LHC research programme, its aim is to explain what hadrons are and why we want to make them collide together, plus much more.
The exhibition was shown for the first time in November 2008 in the physics department of Warsaw University of Technology as a part of the Warsaw Festival of Science. In 2009 it had visited Warsaw, Biaystok, Gdask, Katowice and Kielce, attracting an estimated 50 000 visitors. It consisted of three main parts.
The first contained seven separate stations – each manned by experts – devoted to the LHC accelerator, the four experiments, LHC physics and the constituents of matter. The machine stations included 3D models of detectors at 1:30 scale; exhibits from CERN and from Polish institutes involved in constructing parts of the detectors; and large photos and graphics. A special attraction was an interactive animation prepared by Polish students, which visualizes collisions in ALICE and the work of elements of the detector.
The second part of the exhibition is the main interactive part. About 20 different experiments present the laws of nature used in the construction of the LHC and its detectors, starting at a very basic level (the aim is that the exhibition is accessible even to very young children). The quark model was illustrated with the help of coloured balloons: three small ones encased in a larger, transparent one, all filled with helium and "constructed" by the visitor. Electric
acceleration, the Lorentz force, electromagnets, Ohm's law – "almost all" that is needed to understand how the LHC works – are explained in a set of experiments that everyone can repeat at home. More sophisticated experiments show how particle detectors work and demonstrate superconductors.
The third part shows what the LHC should bring.
While it is not possible to predict the applications of LHC results, this section covers the benefits we have had from the past 50 years of research at CERN and other high-energy physics institutes, such as the World Wide Web and the Grid.
IPJ prepared elements of all three parts of the exhibition. In particular, we prepared the LHCb station and we participated in the preparation of the CMS and LHC accelerator stations in the first part.
For the second part we prepared interactive presentations of cosmic radiation, of radiation interaction with matter and two very elementary interactive stations for children. In the third part of the exhibition devoted to applications we presented medical and industrial accelerators and a nuclear reactor simulator. Eight of the ten local exhibition presentations in Poland were coordinated and manned by the IPJ spokesmen. IPJ experts took part in all ten exhibitions.
The exhibition was financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Polish research institutes (primarily Warsaw University of Technology, Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Warsaw and Henryk Niewodniczaski Institute for Nuclear Physics), by sponsors and local institutions. Support in the form of printed materials, exhibits, and the documentation needed to construct the models was provided by CERN.
Marek Pawowski
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II. DEPARTMENTS OF THE INSTITUTE
1. DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR REACTIONS
Head of Department: Dr Bohdan Mariaski phone: (22) 621-38-29 e-mail: bohdan@fuw.edu.pl
Overview
Our scientific activities in 2009 concentrated on four subjects: low energy nuclear physics, high energy nuclear physics, materials science and applications.
Low energy nuclear physics experiments were continued at the Heavy Ion Laboratory of Warsaw University in collaboration with foreign institutions: University of Jyväskylä, Institute of Nuclear Research of the Ukrainian Academy of Science and Institut de Recherches Subatomique in Strasbourg. Dr Eryk Piasecki was nominated to full professor.
A group of our colleagues, involved in the Hermes collaboration which comprises 32 institutions from eleven countries at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, have continued the analysis of Spin Density Matrix Elements and asymmetry moments in ,, vector meson production. We hope that these studies will provide important constraints on the Generalized Parton Distribution (GPD).
Prof. B. Zwi gliski and his team are involved in the large-scale international collaboration PANDA (antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt). They worked on the project of an electromagnetic calorimeter for the Panda detector at FAIR. Dr Dmytro Melychuk, a member of this team, defended his PhD thesis “Development of electromagnetic calorimeter detectors and simulations for spectroscopic measurements of charmonium with PANDA”.
Grzegorz Kapica, a student in this team, defended his master’s thesis “Investigating the energetic and time response of PWO scintillator with cooled photodiode readout in the gamma energy range 4 – 20 MeV.”
Materials science studies focused on semiconductor compounds that could be used in electronic and optoelectronic devices. This was done in close collaboration with the Institute of Electronic Materials Technology. In particular, a determination of the thermal stability of ohmic contacts in SiC monocristals was performed.
Beams from our Van de Graaff accelerator LECH were used in particle - induced X-ray emission (PIXE) studies of polychromatic decorations from ancient Egyptian tombs. Important findings on the origin and dating of wall paintings at different archeological sites are reported.
In this year the study of nuclear track detectors continued. These detectors will be used in a planned tokamak experiment in Great Britain. A new subject undertaken in the Department in collaboration with the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Science concerns diamond detectors. Diamond detectors have a large energy gap and very short pulse rise time. They are able to measure high intensity particle beams.
As every year, apart from purely scientific activities, a few of our colleagues have been involved in education, giving lectures to students of many High Schools in Warsaw and to students of Warsaw University.
Bohdan Mariaski
REPORTS
Electron-positron Pair Production in Decays of Mesons
M. Berowski, J. Stepaniak, J. Zabierowski, W. Augustyniak, A. Trzciski, P. upraski
page 98, in 2008 Annual Report of the Andrzej Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Editors: N. Keeley and J. Skalski
Measurement of Azimuthal Asymmetries with Respect to Both Beam-charge and Transverse Target-polarization in Exclusive Electroproduction of Real Photons
W. Augustyniak, B. Mariaski, A. Trzciski, P. upraski
page 101, Annual Report The Andrzej Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies
Measurement of Parton Distribution of Strange Quarks from Charged-kaon Production in Deep-inelastic Scattering on the Deuteron
W. Augustyniak, B. Mariaski, A. Trzciski, P. upraski
page 102, Annual Report The Andrzej Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies
Physics Performance Report for PANDA: Strong Interaction Studies with Antiprotons
W. Erni, ... , S. Borsuk, A. Chopik, Z. Guzik, T. Kozowski, D. Melnychuk, M. Pomiski, J. Szewiski, K. Traczyk, B. Zwi gliski, ... et al.
ArXiv No 0903.3905 (2009), GSI, DARMSTADT
Spin Density Matrix Elements in Exclusive 0 Electroproduction on 1H and 2H Targets W. Augustyniak, B. Mariaski, A. Trzciski, P. upraski
page 100 Annual Report The Andrzej Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies
Technical Design Report for the PANDA: Solenoid and Dipole Spectrometer Magnets
W. Erni, ... , S. Borsuk, A. Chopik, Z. Guzik, T. Kozowski, D. Melnychuk, M. Pomiski, J. Szewiski, K. Traczyk, B. Zwi gliski, ... et al.
ArXiv No 0907.0169 (2009),GSI, DARMSTADT
PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Invited Talk
Breakup Coupling Effects on Near-Barrier 6Li, 7Be and 8B + 58Ni Elastic Scattering Compared N. Keeley
The 10th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (China, Beijing, 2009-08-16 - 2009-08-21) Transfer and Elastic Scattering in the CRC Framework
N. Keeley
Structure and Reactions in Coupled Reaction Channels, Workshop of the Espace de Structure Nucléaire Théorique (France, Saclay, 2009-02-09 - 2009-02-12)
Hadron mass generation and the strong interaction H.P. Morsch
The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (Poland, Kraków, 2009-07-16 - 2009-07-22) Probing the nuclear potential with reactions
K. Rusek
16th Nuclear Physics Workshop (Poland, Kazimierz Dolny, 2009-09-23 - 2009-09-27)
Oral Presentation
Defect studies in ion irradiated AlGaN
J. Jagielski, L. Thomé, Y. Zhang, A. Turos, L. Nowicki, K. Pgowska, I. Jówik
19th International Conference on Ion Beam Analysis, IBA 2009 (United Kingdom, Cambridge, 2009-09-07 - 2009-09-11) Nucl. Instr. Meth. B (in press)
Monte Carlo simulations of ion channeling in crystals containing extended defects A. Turos, L. Nowicki, A. Stonert, K. Pgowska, J. Jagielski, A. Muecklich
19th International Conference on Ion Beam Analysis, IBA 2009 (United Kingdom, Cambridge, 2009-09-07 - 2009-09-11) Nucl. Instr. Meth. B (in press)
Fuzzy barrier distributions E. Piasecki
Nuclear Structure and Dynamics (Croatia, Dubrownik, 2009-05-04 - 2009-05-08)
Reliability Tests of Au-metallized Ni-based Ohmic Contacts to 4H-n-SiC with and without Nanocomposite Diffusion Barriers A.V. Kuchuk, M. Guziewicz, R. Ratajczak, M. Wzorek, V.P. Kladko, A. Piotrowska
13th International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2009, ICSCRM 2009 (Germany, Nurnberg, 2009-10-11 - 2009-10-16)
Mat. Sci. Forum (in press)
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Near-Barrier Elastic Scattering of 8He From 208Pb N. Keeley, K. Rusek
DREB2009, Direct Reactions With Exotic Beams (USA, Tallahassee, 2009-12-16 - 2009-12-19)
Response of Cooled PWO Scintillators to low-energy gamma-rays and its Importance for Spectroscopic Measurements of Charmonium with PANDA
D. Melnychuk, B. Zwi gliski
31st Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics (Poland, Piaski, 2009-08-30 - 2009-09-06)
Poster
CHO-K1 Overkill effect at high let of 12C and 20Ne ions J. Czub, M. Jaskóa, A. Korman
MICROS 2009 - 15th International Sympozjum on Microdosimetry (Italy, Verona, 2009-10-25 - 2009-10-30) Appl. Radiat. Isot. (2010)
Fabrication of thermally stabile Ir and IrO2 Schottky contacts on n-SiC
M. Guziewicz, P. Kazmierczak, A. Piotrowska, E. Kaminska, N. Kwietniewski, R. Diduszko, R. Ratajczak, A. Stonert
VI International Scientific Seminar "Silicon Carbide and Related Materials" ISSCRM2009 (Russia, Velikiy Nowgorod, 2009-05-27 - 2009-05-29)
Comparative study of Ni and Ni2Si Ohmic Contacts to 4H-n-SiC
A.V. Kuchuk, O.F. Kolomys, T.T. Piotrowski, M. Wzorek, R. Ratajczak, M. Guziewicz, V.P. Kladko, A. Piotrowska
VI International Scientific Seminar "Silicon Carbide and Related Materials" ISSCRM2009 (Russia, Velikiy Nowgorod, 2009-05-27 - 2009-05-29)
Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University No. (2009)
Stability of Gold Bonding and Ti/Au Ohmic Contact Metallization to n-SiC in High Power Devices
R. Kisiel, M. Guziewicz, A. Piotrowska, E. Kamiska, K. Goaszewska, N. Kwietniewski, W. Paszkowicz, K. Pgowska, K. Pagowska, R. Ratajczak, A. Stonert
32nd International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology, ISSE 2009 (Czech Republic, Brno, 2009-05-13 - 2009-05-17) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE No. (2009)
Characteristics of Gold Wire Bonds with Ti- and Ni-based Contact Metallization to n-SiC for High Temperature Applications M. Guziewicz, R. Kisiel, K. Goaszewska, M. Wzorek, A. Stonert, A. Piotrowska, J. Szmidt
13th International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2009, ICSCRM 2009 (Germany, Nurnberg, 2009-10-11 - 2009-10-16)
Trans Tech Publications No. (2009)
LECTURES, COURSES AND EXTERNAL SEMINARS
Optical potential far from stability linea) K. Rusek
Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, 2009-10-23 AUT (±) Vector Mesons at HERMESb) W. Augustyniak
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-03-12
Asymmetry in exclusive productionb) B. Mariaski
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-03-12
Direct Reaction Analyses Within the Coupled Reaction Channels Frameworkc) N. Keeley
Bruyeres-le-Chatel, CEA DIF SPN, 2009-03-16
SDME in exclusive production on transversely polarized targetb) B. Mariaski
Hamburg, Desy, 2009-06-15
AUT for ±(770) vector mesons at HERMESb) W. Augustyniak
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-06-16 SDME's in exclusive productionb) B. Mariaski
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-09-09
The Concept of a Thin (ca.90 ) Temperature Sensor by Evaporation of Platinum on Laminate in Vacuumb) B. Zwi gliski
Juelich, XXXth PANDA Collaboration Meeting at FZ, 2009-09-09
±(770) vector mesons at HERMES (AUT(±)b) W. Augustyniak
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-09-10
±(770), K*(892) and K±(892) vector mesons at HERMESb) W. Augustyniak
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-10-09
Off-side product of HERMES:scalar mesonsb) W. Augustyniak
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-10-09 Status of analysisb) B. Mariaski
Hamburg, DESY, 2009-10-27
a) in Polish
b) in English
c) in other language
DIDACTIC ACTIVITY
B. Mariaski - Lectures of mathematics and statistic in Agriculture University Lectures of statistic and econometry in WSZ-SW
K. Rusek - supervision of PhD students
A. Turos - supervision of PhD students<br />
MSc Hamada Sadek Kotb A. Turos - Thesis advisor MSc R. Ratajczak MSc K. Pgowska MSc Shaaban Abd El Aal
B. Zwi gliski – Supervision of PhD students:
MSc. D.Melnychuk, MSc A.Mykulyak MSc G.Kalica
PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC COUNCILS, ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
M. Jaskóa
Member of the Polish Physical Society E. Piasecki
Member of the Scientific Council of the Heavy Ion Laboratory, Warsaw University K. Rusek
Deputy chairman of the Scientific Council of the Heavy Ion Laboratory of Warsaw University The Andrzej Sotan Institute for Nuclear Studies, member
A. Turos
Member of Organizing Committee on 19th International Conference on Ion Beam Analysis, IBA 2009 in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Member of the Materials Research Society P. upraski
Member of the Scientific Council of the HERMES Collaboration at DESY B. Zwi gliski
Coordination Board of the PANDA Detector activities, SINS representative
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PERSONNEL
Research scientists Witold Augustyniak, Dr.
Andrzej Biekowski, Dr. on leave Marian Jaskóa, Professor ¾*
Nicholas Keeley, Dr.
Andrzej Korman, Dr.
Bohdan Mariaski, Dr.
Dmytro Melnychuk, MSc.
Hans Peter Morsch, Dr. on leave Andriy Mykulyak, MSc. 1/2*
Lech Nowicki, Dr. 1/2*
Ernest Piasecki, Assoc. Prof. 1/3*
Krzysztof Rusek, Professor 1/5*
Anna Stonert, Dr.
Andrzej Trzciski, Dr.
Andrzej Turos, Professor 3/4*
Bogusaw Zwi gliski, Assoc. Prof.
Pawe upraski, Assoc. Prof. 4/5*
Volunteers
Shaaban Abd El Aal, MSc.
Hamada Kotb, MSc.
PhD students
Karolina Pgowska, MSc.
Izabela Strojek, MSc.
ukasz Standyo, MSc.
Technical and administrative staff Dorota Dobrowolska
Ryszard Kacprzak 1/2*
Grayna K sik, Eng.
Wadysaw Mielczarek 1/2*
Wiesaw Pietrzak 2/5*
Renata Ratajczak, MSc.
Zbigniew Szczepaniak
* part-time employee
