Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics

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Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics 1998 -
2005

• High energy nuclear physics Exploring the
  phases of nuclear matter
• ISOLDE physics / High spin nuclear structure
• Nuclear theory (since 2000)

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Project Budget

• Overall funding (in kNOK)
• Share of the subprojects in 2005

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
All subprojects incl. stipends 1230 1795 1827 2020 1980 1980 1340 1100
Heavy Ion Physics 70
ISOLDE / High Spin Studies 14
Theory 16
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ISOLDE physics

• Isotope Separator On-Line DEvice
• Norwegian participants
• UiO - Dept. of Chemistry
• UiO -Dept. of Physics
• Experiments
• Nuclear structure of very neutron-rich
  Sn-nuclides (IS387)
• Q? -value of r-process waiting-point 130Cd
• Octupole deformation (masses 226, 229)

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High Energy Nuclear Physics

• Studying the properties of the Quark-Gluon
  Plasma
• NA57 at SPS and BRAHMS at RHIC

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NA57 at SPS

• End of data taking in 2001
• Norwegian contribution
• Software infrastructure
• Acceptance and efficiency correction
• Main result strangeness enhancement in PbPb

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...

• BRAHMS at RHIC
• cf. Trine Tveters presentation
• Nuclear Theory
• cf. Laszlo Csernais presentation