Theme Meeting on Scientific Opportunities of ANURIB

Contribution List

16. Atomic collisions using low and high energy ion beams at wider perturbation strengths

Various features molecular collisions under swift ion collisions are of recent interest for its application towards radiobiology, radio sensitization, astrochemistry of intersteller medium as well as fundamental quantum mechanical issues. Particular interest is the collective plasmon resonance (GDPR and GQPR) which is common thread among the PAH molecules, nano-particles, halouracils,...

19. Carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT): A highly interdisciplinary approach can overcome the hurdles in cancer treatment

Cancer is one of the leading death-causing diseases worldwide. Despite advancements in surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, radiochemotherapy, and immunotherapy, Carbon Ion Radiotherapy (CIRT) is becoming very promising for the treatment of cancers, especially certain unresectable, chemoresistant, and radioresistant hypoxic tumors. Being the particle nature the CIRT has several inherent...

33. CERN-MEDICIS : a dedicated isotope mass separation facility for medical research

We will provide in this presentation recent progresses made in the availability of radionuclides for medical application based on developments of the production methods using ion beam and separation technologies. MEDICIS is an extension of the ISOLDE class A laboratory at CERN. It is a facility dedicated to the production of radionuclides for research in the medical field. It comprises an...

2. Challenges and advantages of an e-LINAC based positron beam facility

The Helmholtz-Center Dresden - Rossendorf operates the superconducting electron linear accelerator ELBE (short for Electron LINAC with high Brilliance low Emittance) as a high-power driver for various types of secondary radiation. Running in a 24/7 mode of operation, ELBE serves as user facility which attracts several hundreds of national and international users per year. Secondary beam lines...

27. Decay Spectroscopy of Neutron-rich Exotic Nuclei

Decay spectroscopy is a powerful tool used to address the structure of exotic nuclei. Since the decay measurements happen far from the place where the nuclei are produced, the method is very sensitive, allowing the study of nuclei produced at rates below 1/minutes.
Examples of recent decay spectroscopy studies will be presented, aiming at introducing the technique and focusing on different...

6. Detector Instrumentation activities for nuclear physics at IUAC

Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi provides facilities for nuclear structure and reaction studies [1], focused at energies around Coulomb barrier, using the Pelletron-LINAC accelerator system. The Centre is equipped with the research facilities such as gamma detector array, recoil mass spectrometers, scattering chamber and neutron detector array. The heavy-ion induced ...

29. Emulation of irradiation damage in reactor structural materials using ion beams at VECC

World-wide, ion beams are being used as a surrogate of neutron irradiation in studying the damage in nuclear reactor structural materials. By using a judicious choice of ion, its energy, fluence, flux and irradiation temperature, one can span the neutron equivalent damage produced in the reactors [1].
The short-irradiation time and low induced activity caused in the materials due to the ion...

28. Experimental Nuclear Physics research facility at VECC

The experimental programme for nuclear physics at Variable Energy Cyclotron centre (VECC) is based on investigations of properties of nuclei under different conditions of temperature, angular momenta, deformation and isospin degrees of freedom, using the available accelerated ion beams from the cyclotron at VECC. Several state of the art detector facilities have been developed at VECC over the...

10. Experiments using VECC Penning trap, cryogenic operation and future outlook

The Penning trap has become an essential component of Radioactive Ion Beam facilities due to its potential to manipulate ions, resulting in high-resolution beam purification. It is an incredibly powerful tool for high-precision mass measurement and trap-assisted spectroscopy. The techniques employed in trap-assisted studies are highly efficient and sensitive, allowing for the separation and...

13. Exploring Nuclear Reaction Dynamics using Radioactive Ion Beams through α and -Decay Spectroscopy

The investigation of nuclear reaction cross-sections for the creation of isotopes using radioactive ion beams (RIB) and studying their decay modes has been a critical source of understanding for nuclear reaction dynamics. While much of the experimental research on nuclear properties has focused on nuclei near the valley of stability, however, with the availability of RIBs, recent attention has...

24. Gamma spectroscopy with low-energy RIB: possibilities with ANURIB

In the first stage of ANURIB, low-energy rare isotope "beams" will be available to the users, which are ideal for the study of decay gamma spectroscopy. The decay spectroscopy of the neutron-rich nuclei are very important not only for the better understanding of the nuclear structure physics but has its implication in the applied field as well. Two aspects of the gamma spectroscopy, the...

11. Ion beam interaction with Semiconductors and nano-scale materials

While traveling through a material energetic ions lose energy by nuclear (Sn) and electronic (Se) energy loss. Sn is an elastic energy loss process that is well described by Rutherford scattering cross-section. This stochastic binary collision process produces vacancies and interstitials and their complexes. With increasing energy Se dominates over Sn and peaks at around 1 MeV/nucleon. This...

17. Ion irradiation on ZnO and other metal oxides: prospects, challenges and future directions

ZnO is a well-known wide band gap (3.37 eV at room temperature), intrinsically n type and extremely radiation hard semiconductor [1]. The exciton binding energy of ZnO is ~ 60 meV. Intense luminescence in the ultra-violet region due to exciton recombination is seen from ZnO at room temperature [2]. Hole doping in ZnO (p type) is challenging, still there are reports [1]. Furthermore, undoped...

23. ISOLDE Facility, some highlights of recent work and plans for the future

The ISOLDE Facility at CERN is the world’s leading facility for the production of radioactive ion beams (RIBs) using the ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) method. Over 1000 isotopes of more than 70 elements have been produced by the impact of a 1.4 GeV proton beam on a variety of targets and using different ion sources for providing beams at 40-50 keV energy. Purified isotope/isomer beams...

8. Journey towards ANURIB – Applied & Nuclear Research using Rare Isotope Beams

An ISOL post-accelerator type RIB facility has been developed in Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC). The RIBs are produced using alpha and proton beams from K130 cyclotron using multiple thin targets. The recoil products are transported using gas jet transport and ionized in a 2.4 GHz ECR ion source capable of handling dynamic gas loads. The charge state of the 1+ ions from the first ECR...

31. Journey towards the nuclear drip line

In this presentation, I shall highlight recent advancement in
understanding nucleon-nucleon interaction by studying the nuclei around the limits of existence using the state-of-the-art experimental techniques and its impact in explaining the cosmic events in explosive burning scenario.

7. Nuclear fission studies using gas jet transport system

Gas jet transport systems provide access to short-lived fission products and, thus, can help in detailed measurement of members of isobaric chains which is important for understanding the role of different neutron and proton shells in governing the fission mass distribution which has been recently an active area of investigation. Gamma-ray spectrometry after the gas-jet transport is a...

30. Nuclear physics of exotic nuclei and its implications in astrophysics

The John D. Fox Accelerator Laboratory at Florida State University operates an accelerator system comprised of a 9 MV Tandem plus a 8 MV superconducting linac booster to provide light- and heavyion beams for nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics research. The laboratory is operating an inflight radioactive beam facility called RESOLUT to produce radioactive beams one or two nucleons off...

15. Nuclear solid state techniques at VECC

Gamma ray spectroscopy is a well known technique in nuclear physics research. Based on gamma ray spectroscopy, a number of nuclear solid state techniques, e.g., positron annihilation techniques, Mossbauer spectroscopy, perturbed angular correlation technique, etc., are widely used in the area of solid state physics / materials science research since last several decades. These facilities have...

1. Nuclei away from stability and the r-process

Nuclei away from the “valley of stability,” typically near the “drip lines”, have challenged our understanding of nuclear structure. Some have a “long tail” in their matter density distribution – popularly known as a “halo,” as in 11Be, 19C, in the light mass region or 34Na, 37Mg, in the deformed medium mass region. Another exciting development is the existence of "bubble nuclei" as in 20N,...

14. Positron emitting Radioactive ion beams for simultaneous treatment and imaging

Heavy ion particle therapy is a rapidly growing and potentially the most effective and precise radiotherapy technique. However, the sharp dose gradients in the distal ends make it extremely sensitive to range uncertainties, which remain one of its main limitations. In clinical practice, wide margins extending into the normal tissue are commonly used to guarantee tumor coverage, thus...

32. Possibilities and challenges with ion-beam modification of materials

In this talk, we shall discuss the possibilities and challenges with ion-beam modification of materials in a few important areas which are related to some new and existing areas of research having high societal impacts. In doing so, we will discuss several experimental results based on different ion energies and species which may have direct relevance to ANURIB.

4. Precision mass measurements for nuclear and neutrino physics studies as well as for tests of fundamental symmetries

Prof. Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

Klaus Blaum1
1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

This review provides an overview on the latest achievements and future perspectives of Penning-trap mass spectrometry on short-lived radioactive as well as stable nuclides with applications in nuclear structure, neutrino physics, and most recently even in dark matter searches where relative mass uncertainties at the level...

25. Proposed fast neutron beam facility at VECC and its possible applications

Quasi-monoenergetic neutrons can be produced using (p, n) reactions in light mass target nuclei. In particular metallic 7Li and 9Be targets can be used as they are easy to handle compared to the gaseous targets. VECC medical Cyclotron provides the proton beam of energy 15 to 30 MeV and current of a few hundreds μA. This machine can be used to produce quasi-monoenergetic neutrons. Available...

18. Radioactive ion beam in nuclear astrophysics

Nuclear astrophysics is concerned with the nuclear reactions that occur in astrophysical sites as well as explaining the observed abundance of elements. A number of reactions occur in the interior of stars and other such sites that are diÓcult to study in terrestrial laboratories. Indirect methods have been devised to extract the cross sections for these reactions. The availability of...

9. Research using BARC positron beam facility

Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) is an efficient nuclear-probe technique to study microstructural aspects in materials: for example, crystal defects in metals, alloys & semiconductors, molecular free-volumes in polymers and micro- & meso-pores in porous materials. In Radiochemistry Division, BARC variable energy slow positron dc beam facility has been developed and utilized since more...

3. Spectroscopy of Exotic Isotopes and Possibilities at ANURIB

Prof. Rudrajyoti Palit (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Rudrajyoti Palit
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

We will present some of our selected results associated with the low-lying collectivity in atomic nuclei using the hybrid array of Compton suppressed Clover HPGe detectors and LaBr3(Ce) scintillator detectors. Related physics proposals for the ANURIB facility will be discussed. The need to develop a next generation gamma detection...

22. Status update on the ANURIB project

We have built an ISOL type Rare Isotope Beam (RIB) facility at VECC using the K130 cyclotron as driver accelerator. So far ion beams have been accelerated up to around 415 keV/u using a combination of Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linac and three IH-Linacs. Two more IH Linac modules and inter-connecting beam-line have been added in a new Annex building to increase the energy to 1.0 MeV/u. ...

12. Study of neutron-rich nuclei at RIKEN RI Beam Factory

An overview on experimental activities about neutron-rich nuclei produced with the “Radioactive Isotope Beam Facility” (RIBF) would be given.
Since 2007, the RIBF facility has been aiming (1) to discover new quantum phenomena in a large isospin symmetry through investigating the nuclear structure in very neutron-rich, (2) to study correlation and condensation of loosely bound neutrons, (3)to...

21. Surface and nanoscience research prospects using ANURIB

Interactions of energetic ions with solid surfaces and interfaces have been the subject of active research for fundamental interest as well as technological applications. Further, radioactive ion implantation on surface and nano-structures adds exciting possibilities of modification and characterization in sub atomic scale. Spectroscopic study of the emitted radiations from the implanted...

5. Theoretical perspectives of exotic nuclei

Depending on the mass regions, different predictive theories are employed to explore the properties of exotic systems such as superheavy nuclei and nuclei away from the \beta stability line. Mainly, ab initio theories are applied for relatively lighter nuclei, whereas nuclear energy density functional-based self-consistent theories are the most promising tool for heavy and superheavy nuclei....

20. Total Absorption Gamma-ray Spectroscopy of Exotic Nuclei

The total absorption gamma spectroscopy technique (TAGS) is one of few methods available that provide beta decay data free from the systematic error called Pandemonium effect. The technique is relevant for nuclear structure, in cases where a proper determination of the beta decay strength in the daughter nucleus is necessary. Beta decay data is also of great interest for practical applications...