1. Outlook towards future Polish participation in the new Accelerator Facility Tomasz Matulewicz Warsaw University

2. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz2 The physics case Are the physical problems at the future accelerator facility important enough? Now? After a decade? Is the Polish atomic and nuclear physics community ready for an effective participation? The list of targets

3. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz3 Nuclear Structure Physics Physics with Antiprotons Nuclear Matter Physics Atomic Physics Plasma Physics Applications

4. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz4 The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. Richard P. Feynman... but several of them are unstable...

5. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz5 Nuclear Structure: links to Astrophysics (nucleosynthesis) p+p  He  C  Fe+energy Fe  heavier nuclei-energy

6. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz6 Synthesis of heavy elements during supernovae explosion From qualitative understanding of nucleosynthesis to quantitative: processes involving unstable nuclei to a great extent still unknown. Ultimate goal: understanding of the abundance of the elements in the universe - the origin of our existence Huge progress in astronomical observatories has to be followed by similar progress in nuclear physics.

7. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz7 What we want to learn? properties of very neutron rich nuclei proton emitters isomeric beams nuclear structure of exotic nuclei

8. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz8 Physics with antiprotons Less than 2% of nucleon mass can be accounted for by the three valence quarks. 98% ? kinetic energy interaction energy Confinement of quarks: can we understand this phenomenon?

9. Quantum electrodynamics (QED) Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) confinement potential Masse / MeV 2900 3100 3300 3500 3700 3900 4100 1D21D2 3D23D2 3 P 0 (~3800) 3 P 1 (~3880) 3 P 2 (~3940) terra incognita Charmonium 1f m Charmonium ( c c )Pozytronium (e + e – ) ionisation energy binding energy meV 0 -1000 -3000 -5000 -7000 Positronium 0.1n m 1S01S0 1S01S0 1S01S0 3S13S1 3S13S1 1P11P1 3P13P1 3P03P0 3P23P2

10. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz10 Tool: PANDA detector Prototypes of ECAL (electromagnetic calorimeter consisting of 22 thousands modules of PbWO 4 ) equipped with avalanche photodiodes tested at C-30 cyclotron at the Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies (Świerk, Warsaw), further tests at AI-144 cyclotron at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Kraków) are planned. Construction of elements of Forward Detector (Kraków, Katowice) Data Acquisition System (Kraków, Katowice) Simulations (Katowice)

11. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz11 Project FLAIR: low energy antiprotons antihydrogen spectroscopy: symmetry between matter and antimatter gravitation of matter and antimatter: is it the same? improve the precision of measurement of magnetic moment of antiproton by 10 6 (to the level of accuracy for protons) neutron and proton radii of radioactive nuclei

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13. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz13 Nuclear matter physics 1MeV  10 10 K confinement of quarks „free” quarks in hot&dense medium: phase transition

14. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz14 Simulation of nucleus-nucleus collision

15. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz15 Physics: properties of compressed excited nuclear matter modification of hadrons mass (Warsaw) fluctuation signatures of the critical point (Warsaw) CBM detector Data Acquisition System: how to select and save interesting events from a tremendous flux of standard ones... (Katowice, Kraków, Warsaw) Time-of-Flight detector (Warsaw)

16. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz16 Atomic and plasma physics extreme static e-m fields extreme dynamic fields generated with relativistic uranium nuclei: attosecond microscope (1as=10 -18 s) ultra-slow and trapped antiprotons Powerful laser system PHELIX 5J/0.5 ps => 10 TW ion beam and laser heating: plasma 10 22 W/cm 2 laser Kraków, Kielce

17. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz17 Applications: the development of new plasma technologies applicable for material engineering (Świerk) An electrical arc technique under ultra-high vacuum for the production of thin superconducting layers upon inner surfaces of RF cavities for charged particle accelerators. High-quality super-conducting layers might considerably reduce the costs of the pure Niobium consumption.

18. 24-NOV-2003 Where we are? Compressed Baryonic Matter Physics with antiprotons THEORYTHEORY Nuclear structure Atomic physics Appli- cations

19. 19 Participating regions considering participation...

20. 24-NOV-2003Tomasz Matulewicz20 Conclusions Physics at the future facility is interesting (results will appear in the textbooks of XXI) Wide participation of the atomic and subatomic physics community (all generations!)  talks during this meeting Raised problems of fundamental importance: certainly appealing to the future researchers (now at secondary schools; thousands entering physics studies every year)

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