FAIR and NuSTAR (AIDA, DESPEC, HISPEC, R3B)
FAIR is the Facility for Anti-protons and Ion Research under construction at the GSI laboratory near Darmstadt Germany.
FAIR will provide a unique range of high-energy and high-intensity radioactive ion beams, high intensity anti-protons and high-energy heavy-ions. These beams will support a broad range of science including nuclear structure, hadronic, relativistic heavy ion, plasma and atomic physics.
LINK: http://www.gsi.de/fair/
The UK Nuclear Physics community is part of the FAIR project and STFC will contribute to FAIR through support to two major projects. These are the NuSTAR and PANDA experiments.
LINK: http://www.gsi.de/fair/experiments/NUSTAR/index_e.html
LINK: http://www-panda.gsi.de/auto/_home.htm
The NPG and the Universities of Birmingham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, Surrey, the West of Scotland and York are part of the NuSTAR (Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions) collaboration. The NPG will support several projects within NuSTAR. This will be done through detector design and simulations, mechanical design and electronics and data acquisition design.
The projects are:
- R3B (Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams)
- UK R3B Web Pages
LINK: http://npg.dl.ac.uk/R3B - R3B Web Pages at GSI
LINK: http://www.gsi.de/forschung/kp/kr/R3B_e.html
- UK R3B Web Pages
- HISPEC (High Resolution In-Flight Spectroscopy)
LINK: http://www.gsi.de/fair/experiments/NUSTAR/hispec_e.html- which includes the AGATA project
LINK: http://www.gsi.de/agata/
- which includes the AGATA project
- DESPEC (Decay Spectroscopy)
LINK: http://www.gsi.de/fair/experiments/NUSTAR/hispec_e.html- which includes the Advanced Implantation Detector Array, AIDA
LINK: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~td/AIDA/
- which includes the Advanced Implantation Detector Array, AIDA
AIDA
The NPG, in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool and RAL, has an EPSRC/STFC grant to design and construct AIDA, the Si implantation detector for the DESPEC project. The main responsibilities for STFC are:
- NPG at DL: to design and implement the front end electronics and control system.
LINK: http://npg.dl.ac.uk/AIDA/
- RAL: to design and implement an ASIC for AIDA.
LINK: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~td/AIDA/
Other information:
LINK: talks presented at the UK community FAIR meeting, January 2006
LINK: talks presented at the UK community FAIR meeting, October 2006
Contacts
Prof John Simpson (HISPEC (AGATA), DESPEC, AIDA)
Dr Roy Lemmon (R3B, EXL)
Dr Marc Labiche (Simulations)