HIP JYFL CERN
Nuclear Matter programme
Programme Director: Juha Äystö

Projects
ALICE
ITS/SSD
Software
T0
Theory
ISOLDE

Contacts
Juha Äystö
Programme Director
tel.: +358 14 260 2424
fax: +358 14 260 2351
ALICE
Markku Oinonen
Project Leader
tel.: +358 9 191 51086
fax: +358 9 191 50553
ISOLDE
Ari Jokinen
Project Leader
tel.: +41 22 767 3696
fax: +41 22 767 9145

Overview

Nuclear Matter Programme at HIP was established in the beginning of 2002 in recognition of our long-term involvement in CERN based research. We are interested in the study of nuclear matter at the both extremes of the energy scale. In the keV range we have been revealing nuclear structure using ISOLDE facilities and for the highest energies that will become available at the new LHC collider in the Spring of 2007 we are preparing ALICE experiment.

ALICE is the only LHC experiment dedicated to the heavy ion physics. It will take the data both from the proton-proton and from the lead-lead collisions. Our contribution to ALICE is centered on the innermost parts of the detector: the Inner Tracking System (ITS) and T0 - the timing and trigger detector. In addition to detector construction we have interests in the theoretical and phenomenological studies of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.

Research at the PS-Booster ISOLDE focuses on studies of exotic nuclei far from the valley of beta-stability employing radioactive ion beams. This research includes nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and fundamental symmetries and interactions. Examples of these studies are the experiments on the validity of standard shell model for very neutron-rich nuclei, on the rapid proton capture in energetic stellar scenarios and the search for the violation of the standard model in the low-energy leptonic sector.


Last modified on May 20th 2005 by
Markku Oinonen
Helsinki Office:
P.O.Box 64
(Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
tel.: +358 9 191 50521
fax: +358 9 191 50553
Jyväskylä Office:
Department of Physics
University of Jyväskylä
P.O.Box 35 (Survontie 9)
FIN-40351 Jyväskylä
tel.: +358 14 260 2353
fax: +358 14 260 2351
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