NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER, PLASMA AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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• NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER, PLASMA AND
  RADIATION PHYSICS
• Institute for Space Sciences
• P.O. Box MG-23, RO 76911 Bucharest ROMANIA
• Tel./Fax [phone]
• E-Mail hasegan_at_venus.nipne.ro
• http//venus. nipne.ro

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• Main directions for R D activity
• Cosmic physics
• cosmic rays, nuclear astrophysics and particles
• cosmic plasma and magnetometry
• astrophysics
• Cosmology
• General theoretical and mathematical physics
• Gravitation and Microgravitation
• Space technology
• engineering for space research and remote sensing

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Personnel structure - 2003

• Total 86
• R D personnel 68
• Ph.D. 21
• Ph.D. students 21
• Master students 12

1 - senior researchers I, II and III 2 -
scientific researchers 3 - assistant
researchers 4 - assistants 5 - services and
workers
Average age 36 years
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• STRUCTURE
• Laboratories
• 1. Space Research Laboratory
• 2. Space Engineering Laboratory
• 3. Gravitation Laboratory
• Administration

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• International R D partners (1)
• Belgium
• Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy.
• Czech Republic
• Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Czech
  Academy, Prague
• Karlovo University, Prague.
• France
• Laboratoire de Physique des Atomes, Lasers,
  Molecules et Surfaces, CNRS
• Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et
  Moleculaires, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay
• Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Universite Paris Sud,
  Orsay.
• University of Cergy-Pontoise, Department of
  Mathematics, Cergy-Pontoise.
• Germany
• Max Plank Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik,
  Garching.

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• International R D partners (2)
• Italy
• C.N.R I.A.S.F. Istituto di Astrofisica
  Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna
• Dipartimento di Fisica dellUniversita di
  Bologna
• Dipartimento di Fisica dellUniversita, Gran
  Sasso
• Laboratorio per lo Studio degli Effetti delle
  Radiazioni sui Materiali Speciali (SERMS), Terni.
  
• Russia
• Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna.
• Turkey
• Cankaya University, Ankara.
• USA
• EMBRY - RIDDLE Aeronautical University, Florida.
• Department of Physics Astronomy, University of
  Pittsburgh.

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Mobility 1999 - 2002
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• Satellites and space stations with our
  participation
• (own experiments or in cooperation)
• 1. Magnetometry and cosmic plasmas
• 1978 INTERKOSMOS 18
• 1980 INTERKOSMOS 20
• 1981 INTERKOSMOS 21
• 1989 INTERKOSMOS 24 AKTIVNII - MAGION 2
• 1991 INTERKOSMOS 25 APEX - MAGION 3
• 1995 INTERBALL 1 - MAGION 4 - TAIL
• 1996 INTERBALL 2 - MAGION 5 - AURORAL
• 1996 FAST
• 1997 EQUATOR - S
• 2000 CLUSTER II

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• Satellites and space stations with our
  participation (cont.)
• (own experiments or in cooperation)
• 2. Cosmic rays
• 1972 INTERKOSMOS 6
• 1974 COSMOS 690
• 1975 COSMOS 782
• 1977 INTERKOSMOS 17 COSMOS 936
• 1979 COSMOS 1129 SALIUT 6
• 1981 Scientific Program of Romanian cosmonaut -
  SALIUT 6
• 1982 COSMOS 1514 SALIUT 7
• 1985 SALIUT 7
• 1986 COSMOS 1781
• 1989 COSMOS 2044
• 1993 COSMOS 2229

3. Remote sensing 1996 MIR - PRIRODA
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• Space experiments

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• MAGION 2 - AKTIVNYI satellite

MAGION 4 - INTERBALL TAIL satellite
500 km x 2 500 km 820 1989
315 km X 200 000 km 650 1995
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• INTERBALL Project

Austria Bulgaria Canada Czechia Finland France
Germany Greece Italy Poland Romania Russia
Slovakia Sweden Ukraine Hungary, ESA/ESTEC
AURORAL
TAIL
INTERBALL - AURORAL 770 x 20.000 km INTERBALL -
TAIL 315 x 200.000 km
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• MAGION 4 - INTERBALL TAIL satellite
• Magnetic field, medium energy particles,
  low-energy particles, and
• current in plasma
• April 12, 1997

ISS
Slovakia
Germany
Poland
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CLUSTER II mission European Space Agency - ESA

• 4 identical
• satellites in
• tetrahedral
• arrangement
• RUMBA
• SALSA
• SAMBA
• TANGO

• Institute for Space Sciences Bucharest
• Momentum and energy transphere at the
  magnetosphere boundary
• - kinetical models and mathematical
  simulations
• Auroral acceleration mechanisms
• - theoretical models and comparison with
  experimental data

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• ISTOK - 1 Project
• Module PRIRODA Space
  Station MIR

Remote Sensing Complex PRIRODA
Space Station MIR
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Project NOTTE

• Automated Pointing System
• for
• space and airborne experiments
• in cooperation with
• Dipartimento di Fisica dellUniversita di
  Bologna, Italy
• National Institute for Aero-Space Research
  -INCAS, Bucharest, Romania
• Ministry of National Defence, Romania
• Tested during
• the Total Solar Eclipse
• in
• August 1999
• (several supersonic flights on MIG 29)

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• Future
• Space Missions

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International Space Station

• Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
• - AMS -
• Aim Cosmic Ray studies
• Cherenkov counters
• scintillators
• Silicium trackers

USA, Russia, Japan, ESA, Canada, Italy and Brazil

Institute for Space Sciences is involved in -
electronic design for the tracker - assembling
of the silicon ladders for the Tracker. - works
to qualify the components for operating in a
cosmic radiation environment by
activities at
INFN Perugia, Italy and GSI installation,
Darmstadt, Germany
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• ISS is involved in the investigations of the
  implications of the CMB measurements on the
  structure formation models, addressing the
  following scientific problems
• Constraints on the total density of Dark
  Matter components.
• The imprint of the Hot Dark Matter component on
  the CMB power spectra.
• Determination of cosmological lepton and baryon
  asymmetries.
• Implications of neutrino oscillations on the
  CMB angular power spectra.
• The implications of unstable neutrino on the
  CMB anisotropy.
• Constraints on the fundamental cosmological
  parameters from Planck data.

• PLANCK
• Mission
• European
• Space
• Agency

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• Planck/LFI Data - House Keeping and Science
  Telemetry
• Raw classes data from ground and Space based
  instrument
• House keeping telemetry
• - a set of data where all information about
  instruments and its devices are stored
• is aimed at
• understanding if the instruments and devices are
  working correctly
• giving the possibility to modify the instrument
  set-up in real time to quickly avoid error or
  device breakdown - Real Time Analysis (RTA).
• Science Telemetry
• the real science data
• is aimed at understanding the goodness of
  science data obtained
• its output should be a set of parameters
  necessary to tune the instrumentation as best as
  possible.
• INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste,
• C.N.R I.A.S.F. Istituto di Astrofisica
  Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna,
• I.S.D.C. Integral Science data Center, Geneva

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• On-Ground Astrophysics Experiments

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MACRO Gran Sasso, Italy
NOTTE Experiments carried out in 1999 -
Romania 2001 Zambia 2002 South
Africa
Parang, Romania 2 200 m
MACRO underground infrastructure - 3 500 m
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Large Hadrons Collider - CERN, Geneva
ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment
CMS Compact Muon Solenoid
Contributions of ISS in ALICE collaboration (MoU
between ISS-Bucharest and JINR-Dubna) Common
activities within ALICE Off-Line group on the
development of the simulation framework and
analysis tools

• ISS is involved through collaboration
• with CMS group from Perugia, Italy
• since 1997
• (one of the Quality Test Centres where the
  quality tests will be carried out)

An ISS computer cluster is certified by CERN in
GRID net.
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• On-Ground Astrophysics Experiments

BRAHMS - Broad RAnge Hadron Magnetic
Spectrometers RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider) - Brookhaven National
Laboratory SLIM (Search for LIght
Monopoles) Chacaltaya, Bolivia ANTARES
(Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and
Abyss environmental RESearch) Mediterranean
Sea OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion
tRAcking) National Laboratory Gran Sasso,
Italy CERN, Geneva
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BRAHMS - Broad RAnge Hadron Magnetic
Spectrometers RHIC (Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider) - Brookhaven National Laboratory

• Institute for Space Sciences
• involved in
• development of software for the off-line
  module
• preliminary analysis of global physical
  quantities for interactions at 130 AGeV and 200
  AGeV
• studies on the characteristic signals of the QGP
  (Quark Gluon Plasma)
• preliminary analysis on the gluonic condensate
  state (Color Glass Condensate) of nuclear matter
• studies of nuclear matter under extreme
  conditions of energy densities.

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The Fundeni Telemedicine Pilot Links
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• National Research and Development Programmes
• Technologies in Aeronautics and Space -
  AEROSPATIAL
• Fundamental Researches - CERES
• Core Programme
• European 6th Framework Programme
• Integrating Space Radiation Sensing
  Infrastructure

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• Romania ? ESA
• Agreement between the Government of ROMANIA and
  the EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY concerning cooperation
  in the exploration and use of outer space for
  peaceful purposes
• 1.1. December 11, 1992
• 1.2. October 6, 1999
• Plan for European Co-operating States - PECS

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Regional Network for Research and Education in
Space Science and Technology for Central,
Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
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• Cooperation with
• the Joint Institute for
• Nuclear Research
• ???? - ?????

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Laboratory of High Energy ???

• Started in 1956
• the first stack of emulsion was exposed in the
  proton beam of 9 GeV
• ? mesons of 60 GeV from Serpuhov.
• Along ? 45 years of a strong collaboration
• many other stacks were exposed with different
  high energy nuclei (He, C, N, O, Ne, Si, S) at
  the syncrofazotron E 4.5
  AGeV
• secondary radioactive beams at the nuclotron
  (He3, Be7, B10, B11).
  
• As a result over 100 articles were published in
  different
• prestigious journals of great impact, only this
  year we came
• with 3 papers. At present we continue to work in
  emulsion,
• and are mostly interested in the Becquerell
  project,
• because it is aimed to solve crucial problems for
• nuclear astrophysics.

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2. Another collaboration with ??? begun 5 years
ago, concerning ALICE experiment at LHC-CERN. 3.
This year we will start the third direction the
investigation of secondary particle production
and neutron yield from heavy targets in
nucleus-nucleus interaction and study of
transmutation of radioactive wastes from nuclear
power installations. In order to strenghten
our collaboration with ??? we send for a
long period to work in Dubna
5 very young people from our laboratory,
which will arrive here next
month.
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Heavy ion experiments in nuclear emulsions
Year Experiment Accelerator Accelerator Ion Energy (A GeV/c)
1956-2003 JINR, Dubna Serpuhov JINR, Dubna Serpuhov JINR, Dubna Serpuhov p, ? mesons 28Si, 32S, 4He, 12C, 14C, 16O 9 60 4.5
1986 EMU 01 EMU 01 CERN SPS 16O 200
1986 EMU 01 EMU 01 CERN SPS 16O 60
1986 E 815 E 815 BNL 16O 14.6
1987 EMU 01 EMU 01 CERN SPS 32S 200
1988 E 815 E 815 BNL 28Si 14.6
1990 EMU 01 EMU 01 CERN SPS 32S 200
1992 E 863 E 863 BNL 197Au 11.6
1993 E 863 E 863 BNL 197Au 200
1994 EMU 12 EMU 12 CERN SPS 208Pb 158
1996 LBL Berkeley LBL Berkeley LBL Berkeley 40Ar 1.2
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Laboratory for Neutron Physics ???
Microstructure of ferrofluids studied by SANS on
YUMO at IBR-2, Dubna

• FERROFLUIDS ultrastable colloidal suspentions
  of ferro/ferrimagnetic particles (? 100 Å) in
  various carrier liquids.
• Components
• Fe3O4, etc.
• Adsorbed surfactant layer
• Liquid carrier

The use of thermal neutrons makes it possible to
study the structure of ferrofluids under a wide
variety of experimental conditions
VIEW of YUMO spectrometer
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Microstructure of ferrofluids studied by SANS on
YUMO at IBR-2, Dubna Results of the activity at
LNPh- JINR in the field of ferrofluids
1996-present

• publications
• papers in international journals 21
• international conferences and symposiums 17
  
• Ph.D.Thesis On the microstructure of
  ferrofluids
• In the frame of user policy, cooperations with
• - Research Institute for Solid State Physics,
  Budapest, Hungary
• - Paul Scherer Institute, Swiss Spallation
  Neutron Source, Switzerland
• Scientific contacts
• Shemyakin-Ovchinikov Institute of Bioorganic
  Chemistry,
• Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• - Moscow State University, Physical Department,
  Moscow.

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Laboratory for Nuclear Reactions ???

• Studies of the charge spectrum of the very heavy
• cosmic ions (Z gt 50) from the galactic
  radiation in
• meteoritic crystals
• Nuclear physics - The heavy ion radioactivity
• the spontaneous emission of Neon 24 nuclei from
  the isotopes of Thorium 230, Protactinium 231,
  and Uranium 233
• the upper limit of the branching ratios for
  Magnesium 30 and Silicium 32 emission by the
  spontaneous decay of the isotopes Neptunium 237
  and Americium 241 was set with the highest
  sensitivity achieved at that moment in the world.

1984 the I-st Prize of the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Researches, Dubna From Romania - Prof.
Dr. Aurel Sandulescu, Member of Romanian
Academy - Dr. Dumitru Hasegan