Highlights and Achievements 2008 - 2013
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AERES - Wave E: 2013-2014 assessment campaign HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 2008 - 2013 INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE NUCLÉAIRE UMR8608 APPENDIX 4 UMR 8608 INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE NUCLÉAIRE D’ORSAY HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 2008-2013 PREFACE ...................................................................................................................................... 5 NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS .................................................................................. 9 HADRONIC PHYSICS ................................................................................................................. 53 PHYSICS AND RADIOCHEMISTRY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY................................................... 99 ASTROPHYSICS ....................................................................................................................... 141 THEORETICAL PHYSICS ......................................................................................................... 165 CLUSTERS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY .................................................................................. 209 ACCELERATOR TECHNOLOGY & PHYSICS .......................................................................... 221 INSTRUMENTATION AND COMPUTING DEPARTMENT ....................................................... 251 PLATFORMS IPN ...................................................................................................................... 271 DOSIMETRY ACTIVITIES ......................................................................................................... 281 PREVENTION AND RADIATION PROTECTION ..................................................................... 287 COMMUNICATION ................................................................................................................... 293 ADMINISTRATION – LOGISTICS – INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................................ 299 CONTINUOUS TRAINING ACTIVITIES .................................................................................... 303 SELF- EVALUATION ................................................................................................................. 307 Vague E : campagne d’évaluation 2013 – 2014 1 janvier 2013 Vague E : campagne d’évaluation 2013 – 2014 2 janvier 2013 PREFACE Vague E : campagne d’évaluation 2013 – 2014 4 janvier 2013 PREFACE The activities of the Institute through the 2008-2013 period, have been considerable and a detailed description of all of them would have resulted in a relatively large document. The choice was than made to only describe a selection of highlights from the activities of the different groups during the last 5 years. This concerns the five main scientific topics of the institute that are (see the topical chart of the institute): 1- Nuclear Structure and Dynamics: The highlights described in this section concern the activities of two different research groups ‘NESTER’ and ‘NIM’ (see the organization chart of the Institute) 2 - Hadrons and Hadronic Matter: This section concerns the three teams involved in the CLASS collaboration at JLab, the HADES collaboration at GSI and the ALICE collaboration at LHC. All three are part of the group ‘PHEN’. 3- Physics and Chemistry of Nuclear Energy: This section covers, on one hand, activities related to Nuclear Data and Simulations of novel option for nuclear energy production within the group ‘PACS’ and, on the other hand, all the activities that are performed within the ‘RC (Radio-chemistry group)’ 4- Astrophysics: This section concerns nuclear astrophysics research activity at the group ‘NESTER’, the astro-chemistry activity at the ‘NIM’ group and the astro-particle activity within the ‘AUGER’ collaboration in the group ‘PHEN’. 5 - Theory: This activity concerns mainly the ‘Theory’ group. Beside these five scientific topics a multidisciplinary activity based mainly on the use of accelerated nano- particles with the TANDEM accelerator at ALTO is also described. Two additional sections are devoted in the document to summarize the activities related to: 1-Accelerator physics and technology 2- Detector technology, instrumentation and data acquisition and processing A separate paragraph gives a status report and highlights from the main facilities in the Institute such as ALTO, SUPRATECH and CACAO. The activities on ‘Dosimetry’ in one hand and on ‘Safety and Radiation Protection’ on the other hand as well as an overview of the activities within the ‘Communication’ group are summarized in separate paragraphs. A short paragraph is also given in order to remind the vital activities for the running and functioning of the institute that are covered by the Administration, Logistics and Infrastructure Division (DALI). A special attention was given these last years for continuous training of the personnel. This is motivated by the importance of keeping and passing over the expertise as well as of helping identifying promotion perspectives for all categories of employees (see chapter 14). A self-evaluation is proposed in chapter 15. This self-evaluation is largely based on the conclusions of the evaluation of our activities by the Scientific and Technical Advisory committee of the Institute. For each of the activity reports various information is given such as the dedicated human resources and their evolution during the last 5 years, scientific production in terms of publications, participation to conferences etc… Vague E : campagne d’évaluation 2013 – 2014 5 janvier 2013 DIRECTEUR Chargés de mission Faiçal AZAIEZ Relations internationales et communication : Ubirajara VAN KOLCK Médecine de Dosimétrie Chargée de Direction : Martine ROUX Relations avec l’Université Paris Sud 11 : Tiina SUOMIJARVI prévention Isabelle VABRE Valorisation : Jean-Pierre THERMEAU Service de Prévention et Communication - Information de Radioprotection Scientifique et Technique Jean-François LE DU Valérie FROIS Affaires générales ACMO PCR ADMINISTRATRICE Martine ROUX Lucette PORCHERON Contrats de recherche Nathalie CHEREL DIVISION INSTALLATIONS DIVISION DIVISION DIVISION DE LA RECHERCHE ACCELERATEURS INSTRUMENTATION ADMINISTRATION Plateforme SUPRATECH Directeur : Saïd ESSABAA ET INFORMATIQUE LOGISTIQUE Directeur : Fadi IBRAHIM Richard MARTRET Adjoint : Sébastien BOUSSON Directrice : Valérie CHAMBERT INFRASTRUCTURE Assistante : Elisabeth SEIBERT Assistante : Virginie LAURENCIER Assistante : Laurence BERTHIER Directrice : Lucette PORCHERON Assistante : Nathalie CHEREL Noyaux Exotiques Installation ALTO SUPRAtech-R&D STructure Et Réactions Chef d’installation : Cavités et Cryogénie Service David VERNEY Abdelhakim SAÏD Guillaume OLRY Coordinateur scientifique : R&D Détecteurs Service Financier David VERNEY Philippe ROSIER Arlette LEDO Noyaux Ions Matière ALTO-R&D Cibles Marin CHABOT Sources d’Ions CACAO Christophe LAU Charles-Olivier BACRI Service Physique des Hautes Ressources Energies Cibles Couches Minces d’Electronique Dominique MARCHAND PROJETS Véronique PETITBON Physique Humaines et Projet ANDROMEDE Eric WANLIN Formation Responsable scientifique : Permanente Serge DELLA NEGRA Pascale GUYONVARCH Physique Théorique Responsable technique : Bureau d’Etudes Marcella GRASSO Evelyne COTTEREAU Patricia DUCHESNE Physique de l’Aval du ENSEIGNEMENT Modélisation Service Cycle et de la Spallation Calculs Informatique de Service Logistique Charles-Olivier BACRI Ecoles doctorales Jean-Luc BIARROTTE l’Institut et Infrastructure Benjamin PRECIADO Frédéric BASTIER Electronique Radiochimie Masters Sylvie DELPECH Accélérateurs Christophe JOLY 30/06/2013 Vague E : campagne d’évaluation 2013 – 2014 6 janvier 2013 NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS Vague E : campagne d’évaluation 2013 – 2014 8 janvier 2013 Nuclear Structure and dynamics FTE : 23 – (78% E1 + 22% E6) The activity of the IPN Nuclear Structure and dynamic groups has been mainly focused on the study of the structure of exotic nuclei following three main research axes: 1) the study of the evolution of spherical shell structure of nuclei far from stability; 2) the study of weakly bound states and nuclear resonances; 3) the study of the equation of state of nuclear matter as a function of temperature and nuclear asymmetry as well as the liquid-to-gas phase transition properties. During the last few years the rapid evolution and major breakthroughs realized in these fields of research were made possible thanks to the availability of new radioactive beams both in France and abroad. The group has a decisive influence on this evolution: indeed, some of the members of our group are involved in the management and the exploitation of ALTO (Accélérateur Linéaire et Tandem à Orsay) which allows in particular the production of very neutron rich nuclei from photofission using ISOL (Isotopic Separation On Line) technique. The study of rarer and shorter-lived nuclear structures requires also a constant improvement in the quality (in terms of efficiency, resolution, granularity, dynamic range etc) of the detectors installed at different facilities like MUST2. During the last years, MUST2 has entered an active exploitation phase and has delivered (and is still delivering) quantities of data. In the meanwhile an important effort is realized in developing state of the art detection equipment in the framework of SPIRAL2 and other large European infrastructure. The group is actively involved in the SPIRAL2 project and particularly in the DESIR, FAZIA, GASPARD, PARIS and S3 projects. From N=40 to N=50 and the creation of spin-orbit shell gaps (TEAM E1) Nuclei in the mass region