1. 1 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER, PLASMA AND RADIATION PHYSICS Institute for Space Sciences P.O. Box: MG-23, RO 76911 Bucharest ROMANIA Tel./Fax (4021) 457.44.71 E-Mail: hasegan@venus.nipne.ro http://venus. nipne.ro

2. 2 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

3. 3 Total 86 R & D personnel 68 –Ph.D. 21 –Ph.D. students 21 –Master students 12 Average age = 36 years Personnel structure - 2003 1 - senior researchers I, II and III 2 - scientific researchers 3 - assistant researchers 4 - assistants 5 - services and workers

4. 4 STRUCTURELaboratories 1. Space Research Laboratory 2. Space Engineering Laboratory 3. Gravitation LaboratoryAdministration

5. 5 International R & D partners International R & D partners (1) Belgium 1.Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. Czech Republic 1.Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Czech Academy, Prague; 2.Karlovo University, Prague. France 1.Laboratoire de Physique des Atomes, Lasers, Molecules et Surfaces, CNRS; 2.Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moleculaires, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay; 3.Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay. 4.University of Cergy-Pontoise, Department of Mathematics, Cergy-Pontoise. Germany 1.Max Plank Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching.

6. 6 International R & D partners International R & D partners (2) Italy 1.C.N.R – I.A.S.F. Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna; 2.Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita di Bologna; 3.Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita, Gran Sasso; 4.Laboratorio per lo Studio degli Effetti delle Radiazioni sui Materiali Speciali (SERMS), Terni. Russia 1.Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna. Turkey 1.Cankaya University, Ankara. USA 1.EMBRY - RIDDLE Aeronautical University, Florida. 2.Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh.

7. 7 Mobility 1999 - 2002

8. 8 Satellites and space stations with our participation (own experiments or in cooperation) 1. Magnetometry and cosmic plasmas –1978INTERKOSMOS 18 –1980INTERKOSMOS 20 –1981INTERKOSMOS 21 –1989INTERKOSMOS 24 AKTIVNII - MAGION 2 –1991INTERKOSMOS 25 APEX - MAGION 3 –1995INTERBALL 1 - MAGION 4 - TAIL –1996INTERBALL 2 - MAGION 5 - AURORAL –1996FAST –1997EQUATOR - S –2000CLUSTER II

9. 9 Satellites and space stations with our participation Satellites and space stations with our participation (cont.) (own experiments or in cooperation) 2. Cosmic rays –1972INTERKOSMOS 6 –1974COSMOS 690 –1975COSMOS 782 –1977INTERKOSMOS 17 & COSMOS 936 –1979COSMOS 1129 & SALIUT 6 –1981Scientific Program of Romanian cosmonaut - SALIUT 6 –1982COSMOS 1514 & SALIUT 7 –1985SALIUT 7 –1986COSMOS 1781 –1989COSMOS 2044 –1993COSMOS 2229 3. Remote sensing 1996MIR - PRIRODA

10. 10 Space experiments

11. 11 MAGION 2 - AKTIVNYI satellite 500 km x 2 500 km 82 0 1989 MAGION 4 - INTERBALL TAIL satellite 315 km X 200 000 km 65 0 1995

12. 12 INTERBALL Project AURORAL TAIL INTERBALL - AURORAL 770 x 20.000 km INTERBALL - TAIL 315 x 200.000 km Austria Bulgaria Canada Czechia Finland France Germany Greece Italy Romania Poland Romania Russia Slovakia Sweden Ukraine Hungary, ESA/ESTEC

13. 13 MAGION 4 - INTERBALL TAIL satellite Magnetic field, medium energy particles, low-energy particles, and current in plasma April 12, 1997 ISS Slovakia Germany Polan d

14. 14 CLUSTER II mission European Space Agency - ESA 4 identical satellites in tetrahedral arrangement 1.RUMBA 2.SALSA 3.SAMBA 4.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

15. 15 ISTOK - 1 Project Module PRIRODA Space Station MIR Remote Sensing Complex PRIRODA Space Station MIR

16. 16 Automated Pointing System for space and airborne experiments in cooperation with: 1.Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita di Bologna, Italy 2.National Institute for Aero- Space Research -INCAS, Bucharest, Romania 3.Ministry of National Defence, Romania Tested during the Total Solar Eclipse in August 1999 (several supersonic flights on MIG 29) Project NOTTE

17. 17 Future Space Missions

18. 18 International Space Station USA, Russia, Japan, ESA, Canada, Italy and Brazil Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - AMS - Aim: Cosmic Ray studies Cherenkov counters scintillators Silicium trackers Institute for Space Sciences 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

19. 19 PLANCK MissionEuropeanSpaceAgency ISS 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.

20. 20 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

21. 21 On-Ground Astrophysics Experiments

22. 22 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

23. 23 ALICE A Large Ion Collider Experiment CMS C ompact M uon S olenoid Large Hadrons Collider - CERN, Geneva ISS Contributions of ISS in ALICE collaboration (MoU between ISS-Bucharest and JINR-Dubna) ALICE Off-Line group Common activities within ALICE Off-Line group on the development of the simulation framework and analysis tools ISS ISS is involved through collaboration - with CMS group from Perugia, Italy - since 1997 Quality Test Centres (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.

24. 24 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

25. 25 BRAHMS BRAHMS - B road RA nge H adron M agnetic S pectrometers 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.

26. 26 Medical units in Romania Fundeni Medical units abroad Internet barebone The Fundeni Telemedicine Pilot Links

27. 27 National Research and Development Programmes  Technologies in Aeronautics and Space - AEROSPATIAL  Fundamental Researches - CERES  Core Programme European 6 th Framework Programme “Integrating Space Radiation Sensing Infrastructure”

28. 28 Romania ESA Romania  ESA 1.“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 2.Plan for European Co-operating States - PECS

29. 29 Regional Network for Research and Education in Space Science and Technology for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

30. 30 Cooperation with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ОИЯИ - Дубна

31. 31 1.Started in 1956  the first stack of emulsion was exposed in the proton beam of 9 GeV   mesons of 60 GeV from Serpuhov. 2.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, Becquerell project, and are mostly interested in the Becquerell project, because it is aimed to solve crucial problems for nuclear astrophysics. Laboratory of High Energy – ЛВЕ

32. 32 ЛВЕ 2. Another collaboration with ЛВЕ 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. ЛВЕ In order to strenghten our collaboration with ЛВЕ we send for a long period to work in Dubna 5 very young people from our laboratory, which will arrive here next month.

33. 33 YearExperimentAcceleratorIon Energy (A GeV/c) 1956- 2003 JINR, Dubna Serpuhov p,  mesons 28 Si, 32 S, 4 He, 12 C, 14 C, 16 O 9 60 4.5 1986 EMU 01CERN SPS 16 O 200 1986 EMU 01CERN SPS 16 O 60 1986 E 815BNL 16 O 14.6 1987 EMU 01CERN SPS 32 S 200 1988 E 815BNL 28 Si 14.6 1990 EMU 01CERN SPS 32 S 200 1992 E 863BNL 197 Au 11.6 1993 E 863BNL 197 Au 200 1994 EMU 12CERN SPS 208 Pb 158 1996LBL Berkeley 40 Ar 1.2 Heavy ion experiments in nuclear emulsions

34. 34 Laboratory for Neutron Physics – ЛНФ 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:  Fe 3 O 4, 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

35. 35 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.

36. 36 Laboratory for Nuclear Reactions – ЛЯР 1. Studies of the charge spectrum of the very heavy cosmic ions (Z > 50) from the galactic radiation in meteoritic crystals 2.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