Annual Report 2013 NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAŃ JĄDROWYCH NATIONAL CENTRE for NUCLEAR RESEARCH
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Annual Report 2013 NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAŃ JĄDROWYCH NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PL-05-400 Otwock-Świerk, POLAND tel.: 048 22 718 00 01 fax: 048 22 779 34 81 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.ncbj.gov.pl Editors: N. Keeley K. Kurek Cover design: S. Mirski Secretarial work and layout: G. Swiboda ISSN 2299-2960 Annual Report 2013 3 CONTENTS FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 I. GENERAL INFORMATION ................................................................................................... 7 1. LOCATIONS ...................................................................................................................... 7 2. MANAGEMENT OF THE INSTITUTE ............................................................................ 7 3. SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ..................................................................................................... 8 4. MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ................................................................................... 11 5. SCIENTIFIC STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE .................................................................... 13 6. VISITING SCIENTISTS .................................................................................................. 15 7. PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL CONSORTIA AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS .. 23 8. DEGREES ......................................................................................................................... 24 9. ACCELERATORS AND DETECTORS PROJECT IN NCBJ ........................................ 25 10. COMPUTING CENTRE AT NCBJ IN ŚWIERK ............................................................ 26 11 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK......................................................................... 27 12. STRENGHTENING OF THE INNOVATION POTENTIAL OF THE INSTITUTE IN ŚWIERK FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON IONISING RADIATION 4LABS ....................................................................................................... 28 II. DEPARTMENTS AND DIVISIONS OF THE INSTITUTE ................................................. 29 1. DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY ..................................................................... 29 DIVISION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY .............................................................................. 31 DIVISION OF MARIA REACTOR OPERATIONS ....................................................... 45 DIVISION OF RESEARCH REACTOR TECHNOLOGY ............................................. 49 RADIATION PROTECTION MEASUREMENTS LABORATORY ............................. 53 2. DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS PHYSICS ................................................................. 61 MATERIALS RESEARCH LABORATORY .................................................................. 63 DIVISION OF NUCLEAR METHODS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS .......................... 67 DIVISION OF PLASMA/ION BEAM TECHNOLOGY ................................................. 73 3. DEPARTMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH..................................................... 79 DIVISION OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS .............................................................................. 81 DIVISION OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS ..................................................................... 87 DIVISION OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS ..................................................................... 95 DIVISION OF COSMIC RAY PHYSICS ...................................................................... 107 4 Annual Report 2012 4. DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES & EQUIPMENT ............................. 115 DIVISION OF PARTICLE ACCELERATION PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY ........... 117 DIVISION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS OF PHYSICS ................... 123 DIVISION OF RADIATION DETECTORS .................................................................. 129 DIVISION OF ELECTRONICS AND DETECTION SYSTEMS ................................. 135 DIVISION OF PLASMA STUDIES .............................................................................. 143 5. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAININGS ............................................... 149 6. RADIOISOTOPE CENTRE POLATOM ....................................................................... 153 7. DIVISION OF NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT - HITECH III. REPORTS ON RESEARCH ................................................................................................ 163 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMIC RAYS & ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS .............. 165 NUCLEAR PHYSICS .......................................................................................................... 177 PLASMA PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................. 181 DETECTORS, ACCELERATORS, PHYSICS OF MATERIALS & APPLICATIONS .... 191 SOLID STATE PHYSICS .................................................................................................... 207 NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IN ENERGY GENERATION .............................................. 215 NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES IN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDS ........................................................................................ 241 IV. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS .................................................................................................. 264 V. AUTHOR INDEX................................................................................................................. 317 Annual Report 2013 5 FOREWORD For NCBJ the year 2013 was a time of intensive capacity building and important scientific achievements. Being the largest research institute in Poland is a challenge, becoming the best is our goal. According to the SCImago1 rankings we have achieved this goal in the category of “normalized impact” accounting for reviewed publications and their citations. We are proud to be number one in Poland and we are not ashamed to be number 156 in the world. This was achieved thanks to 600 papers and more than 9800 citations giving us a Hirsch index equal to 115. Some of these papers are related to our activities in experiments with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, notably those rewarded with the Nobel prize for the discovery of the Higgs boson. We have also participated in the discovery of neutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment and the discovery of extragalactic cosmic rays by the Kascade-Grande collaboration. The last two successes reflect the expansion of NCBJ's research into astroparticle physics, cosmology and space research. Recently, prof. Leszek Roszkowski, supported by a “Welcome” grant from the Polish Science Foundation, established a group of researchers exploiting the impact of LHC results on our knowledge of the Universe. Several papers published by this group received important attention in the scientific world, so we have chosen it together with a new result on CP violation obtained by prof. Marek Szczekowski and dr Artur Ukleja from the LHCb experiment as the “NCBJ achievement of the year”. Two prominent recognitions were awarded to prof. Adam Sobiczewski. He became an Ordinary Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Full Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Ryszard Sosnowski celebrated the Renewal of his PhD by the University of Warsaw, the equivalent of Doctor of Science Honoris Causa given by his Alma Mater. The successes of our senior professors have encouraged the younger generation to put themselves forward. Kajetan Różycki was chosen as chair of the Nuclear Cogeneration Working Group of the European Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform. Dr Michał Heller, already with 500 citations of his papers on the quark-gluon plasma, obtained second place in the top-list “Poles with verve”. Dr Jakub Mielczarek with 400 citations in quantum cosmology reached the final of the “Polityka” journal scientific awards. Piotr Laskowski and dr Karol Wawrzyniak have been raised by the Ministry of Science to the elite group of “Top 500 Innovators”. With all this activity, in NCBJ we do not need to be afraid about the generation gap any more! It is important to note that these ambitious youngsters are involved in both basic and applied research. They have contributed very significantly to the success of the “Accelerators and Detectors” project developing radiation based devices for medical and security applications. Among them are accelerators for radiotherapy: the highly specialized COLINE, INTRALINE intraoperative and InLine PN50 for brachytherapy, as well as security systems: CANIS for cargo screening and SWAN to check for malicious content in luggage. Other applications of radiation developed recently by NCBJ are an ionizing chamber for dosimetry in radiotherapy and devices to measure the composition of cement and the copper concentration in ore deposits. Commercial applications of technologies developed by NCBJ are becoming an increasingly important part of the institute's income, reaching 60% in 2013. Most of this comes from radioisotope production for medical, industrial and scientific applications. The Maria reactor supplied 18% of the global market for 99Mo, which is used in 80% of medical procedures with radioisotopes. Working for 20 weeks in 2013 Maria served 2 million patients in Poland and 6 Annual Report 2013 abroad. Our Radioisotope Centre POLATOM now exports a number of products to 78 countries worldwide. And there is more to come. New highlights are vanadium capsules with 75Se sources for industrial