Annual Report 2015 - Jülich Center for Hadron Physics / Institut für Kernphysik / COSY
Annual Report 2015 - Jülich Center for Hadron Physics / Institut für Kernphysik / COSY
With the start of the third programme-oriented funding period (PoF-3) in 2015 the IKP has completed theprocess of focusing its scientific portfolio to the two topics PANDA and HESR at FAIR and storage ringEDM search (srEDM).After a long period of uncertainty about the realizing of the FAIR project,...
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Personal Name(s): | Goldenbaum, Frank (Editor) |
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Grzonka, Dieter (Editor) / Hanhart, Christoph (Editor) / Hejny, Volker (Editor) / Kacharava, Andro (Editor) / Lehrach, Andreas (Editor) / Meissner, Ulf-G. (Editor) / Ritman, James (Editor) / Schadmand, Susan (Editor) / Sefzick, Thomas (Editor) / Stroeher, Hans (Editor) / Tölle, Raimund (Editor) | |
Contributing Institute: |
IKP- Technische und Administrative Infrastruktur; IKP-TA Kernphysikalische Großgeräte; IKP-4 Theorie der starken Wechselwirkung; IKP-3 Experimentelle Hadrondynamik; IKP-2 Experimentelle Hadronstruktur; IKP-1 |
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2016
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Physical Description: |
73 p |
DOI: |
10.34734/FZJ-2024-01940 |
Document Type: |
Book Internal Report |
Research Program: |
ohne Topic |
Series Title: |
Jül-Bericht
4393 |
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OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
With the start of the third programme-oriented funding period (PoF-3) in 2015 the IKP has completed theprocess of focusing its scientific portfolio to the two topics PANDA and HESR at FAIR and storage ringEDM search (srEDM).After a long period of uncertainty about the realizing of the FAIR project, especially concerning the antiprotonpillar, the FAIR council made a clear positive statement. All four pillars of FAIR including the PANDAexperiment should be completed simultaneously. That‘s a clear signal to go on with the PANDA detectordevelopment and the HESR preparations.The ongoing project srEDM promoted by the international JEDI collaboration gained a high scientificreputation as a potential flagship project in basic research. Measurements or at least the extension of thelimits of charged particle EDMs will try the limits of the Standard Model and constrain models of supersymmetry.A complementary project in the leptonic sector started recently with the new IKP group of Prof. Ludhova,resulting from the HGF recruiting initiative, for the study of neutrino physics.The experimental activities at COSY have changed from hadron physics to high precision spin physicsand FAIR related component tests. About half of the user beam time in 2015 was used for srEDM relatedstudies and the other half was devoted to tests of HESR and FAIR detector components.Apart from results originating from our hadron physics activities at COSY the following highlightshave been achieved in 2015:• FAIR: The preparation of HESR is on schedule, first dipoles and quadrupoles were delivered and thetest procedures have started. Test measurements for the Straw Tube Tracker, the MVD and the DAY-1KOALA experiment have been successfully performed.• srEDM: A record long spin coherence time has been achieved and various developments are on theway towards the precursor experiment, like e.g. BPM, RF-Wien-filter, and polarimeter. The precisionin the spin manipulation techniques has reached such a high level that it provides a diagnostics toolfor probing spin motion effects in storage ring not accessible before.• Theory: The theory group worked on various fields with exciting results. Examples are first ab initiocalculations of alpha-alpha scattering, a fundamental ingredient of the nucleosynthesis, the precisedetermination of the pion-nucleon s-term or the investigation of pentaquark-like structures and XYZstates.In spite of the recognized high scientific value of our research the board of directors suggested a transition ofthe IKP after the contractual deliverables of the main activities FAIR and srEDM within POF-3 are fulfilled.We are convinced that curiosity-driven basic research, the main topic at IKP is indispensable for a researchcenter with the demand for a high scientific reputation. We believe that an excellent approach for IKP orits future new structure will be to keep the tripod of basic research with experiment, theory and acceleratorscience. Presently the discussions about the future of IKP are ongoing and there will be for sure changes.Finally I would like to thank all IKP members, the colleagues of the infrastructure departments andour national and international collaboration partners for their activities and support. |