Contribution to the CALIFA barrel R3B experiment at FAIR
Project description
This project concerns investment for the CALIFA barrel detector of the R3B experiment at FAIR (the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany. In 2010 Sweden signed the FAIR agreement and thereby became member of the new facility. The laboratory is planned to be the main user laboratory for Swedish nuclear physics for the coming 15-20 years. This specific application comes as part of the in-kind contributions to detector systems at FAIR that has been developed in dialogue between the Swedish FAIR consortium (SFAIR) and the research council. It consists of a contribution to scintillator crystals and readout devices to the barrel part of the calorimeter for the R3B experiment. The technical design report (TDR) for the detector was completed in 2011 following a period of R&D on detector design. The Lund, Chalmers and KTH groups are the main Swedish participants in this detector development program where the Lund group has the responsibility in Sweden for scintillator and readout devices for the CALIFA barrel. The main purpose of CALIFA is to detect charged particles and gamma-rays from reactions with exotic ion beams at relativistic energies. The CALIFA barrel consists of CsI(Tl) crystals of varying geometry coupled to readout devices. The funding requested in this application will be dedicated to purchase of detector units as described in the TDR. FAIR is currently under construction and this investment is part of the Swedish contribution to FAIR.
Year
Team
Lund University:
- Joakim Cederkäll, Professor, Nuclear physics, Faculty of science, Department of physics
- Bo Jakobsson, Professor, Nuclear physics, Faculty of science, Department of physics
- Pavel Golubev, Senior Lecturer, Nuclear physics, Faculty of science, Department of physics
KTH Royal Institute of Technology:
- Torbjörn Bäck, Associate professor, nuclear physics
Chalmers University of Technology:
- Thomas Nilsson, Professor, subatomic and plasma physics, Department of physics
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Collaborations
- Lund University
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Chalmers University of Technology