IPAC2011 - List of Keywords (heavy-ion)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
TUPC078	The Impact of the Duty Cycle on Gamma-particle Coincidence Measurements	target, background, ion, extraction	1183
	P.R. John, J. Leske, N. Pietralla TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: Supported by BMBF under 06DA9041I Radioactive ion beam facilities deliver a great variety of different nuclei and thus open new possibilities for gamma-ray spectroscopy with radioactive isotopes. One of the challenges for the experimentalist is the high gamma background. To obtain nearly background-free spectra a gamma-particle coincidence measurement in inverse kinematics is well suited. Also for stable beams this method offers a lot of advantages. A crucial point for experimentalists for such kind of experiments is the duty cycle and the beam structure of the accelerator. For a typical set-up, the effect of the duty cycle and beam structure, e.g. resulting from different ion-sources, on data acquisition and thus the experiment will be shown from the experimentalist's point of view. The results will be discussed for selected accelerators, i.e. UNILAC (GSI, Germany), REX-ISOLDE (CERN, Switzerland) and ATLAS (ANL, USA).

TUPC105	Improvement of Beam Current Monitor with High Tc Current Sensor and SQUID at the RIBF	ion, cyclotron, linac, ECR	1260
	T. Watanabe, N. Fukunishi, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, Y. Sasaki RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
	A highly sensitive beam current (position) monitor with a high Tc (Critical Temperature) current sensor and a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device), that is the HTc-SQUID monitor, has been developed for the RIBF (RI Beam Factory) in RIKEN. The purpose of our work is to measure the DC of high-energy heavy-ion beams nondestructively in such a way that the beams are diagnosed in real time and the beam current extracted from the cyclotron can be recorded without interrupting the beam user's experiments. Both the HTc magnetic shield and the HTc current sensor were dip-coated by thin layer of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O (2223-phase, Tc=10⁶ K) on 99.9 % MgO ceramic substrates. Unlike other existing facilities, all these HTS fabrications are cooled by a low-vibration pulse-tube refrigerator. These technologies enable us to downsize the system. As a result, 1 uA Xe beam intensity (50 MeV/u) was successfully measured with a 10⁰ nA resolution. From last year, aiming at the higher resolution, improvement of the new HTc current sensor with two turn coils has been started. We will report the present status and the measurement results of the HTc-SQUID monitor.

TUPC153	Study of the Response of Silicon Photomultipliers in Presence of Strong Cross-talk Noise	photon, beam-losses, radiation, positron	1389
	M. Putignano, A. Intermite The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom M. Putignano, C.P. Welsch Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Funding: Work supported by STFC, the EU under GA-ITN-215080, the Helmholtz Association and GSI under VH-NG-328. Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) are interesting detectors for beam diagnostics applications where they could replace photomultiplier tubes as large dynamic range photon counting devices due to their reduced dimensions and costs, higher photon detection efficiency, immunity to magnetic fields and low operation voltage. Possible applications include longitudinal beam profile measurements by synchrotron light imaging, detection of optical transition radiation for energy spectrum measurements and medical imaging. However, quantitative measurement with SiPMs are jeopardized by the systematic reading error due to Optical Cross-talk (OC), i.e. optical coupling between neighboring diodes in the array. OC results in overestimation of the impinging light level, and reflects the probability of a triggered avalanche creating a photon of suitable energy and direction to fire a second avalanche in another diode. In this paper, we derive a generalized response distribution for SiPM in presence of cross-talk noise, which overcomes the limitations of assumptions currently made in literature and provides a correction of the SiPM response distribution valid for arbitrary large levels of cross-talk.

TUPS007	Construction and Test of a Cryocatcher Prototype for SIS100*	ion, vacuum, controls, beam-losses	1527
	L.H.J. Bozyk, D.H.H. Hoffmann TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany H. Kollmus, P.J. Spiller, M. Wengenroth GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: EU-FP-7 project COLMAT, FIAS The main accelerator, SIS100, of the FAIR-facility will provide heavy ion beams of highest intensities. Ionization beam loss is the most important loss mechanism at operation with high intensity, intermediate charge state heavy ions. A special synchrotron design has been developed for SIS100, aiming for hundred percent control of ionization beam loss by means of a dedicated cold ion catcher system. To suppress dynamic vacuum effects, the cryo catcher system shall also provide a significantly reduced effective desorption yield. The construction and tests of a prototype cryo ion catcher is a workpackage of the EU-FP-7 project COLMAT. A prototype test setup including cryostat has been constructed, manufactured and tested at GSI under realistic conditions with heavy ion beams of the of the heavy ion synchrotron SIS18. The design and results are presented.

TUPS032	Overview of EuCARD Accelerator and Material Research at GSI	ion, collimation, radiation, quadrupole	1602
	J. Stadlmann, H. Kollmus, E. Mustafin, N. Pyka, P.J. Spiller, I. Strašík, N.A. Tahir, M. Tomut, C. Trautmann GSI, Darmstadt, Germany L.H.J. Bozyk TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: EuCARD is co-funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 227579 EuCARD is a joined accelerator R&D initiative funded by the EU. Within this program, GSI Darmstadt is performing R&D on materials for accelerators and collimators in WP8(ColMat). GSI covers prototyping and testing of a cryogenic ion catcher for FAIR's main synchrotron SIS100, simulations and studies on activation of accelerator components e.g. halo collimatiors as well as irradiation experiments on materials foreseen to be used in FAIR accelerators and the LHC upgrade program. Carbon-carbon composites, silicon carbide and copper-diamond composite samples have been irradiated with heavy ions at various GSI beamlines and their radiation induced property changes were characterized. Numerical simulations on the possible damage by LHC and SPS beams to different targets have been performed. Simulations and modelling of activation and long term radiation induced damage to accelerator components have started. A prototype ion catcher has been built and first experiments have been performed in 2011. New collaborations with other institutes and industry in the EuCARD framework have been established and findings of the joined R&D effort influence decisions in the FAIR project and LHC upgrade.

TUPZ016	First Run of the LHC as a Heavy-ion Collider	ion, luminosity, proton, injection	1837
	J.M. Jowett, G. Arduini, R.W. Assmann, P. Baudrenghien, C. Carli, M. Lamont, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, J.A. Uythoven, W. Venturini Delsolaro, J. Wenninger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	A year of LHC operation typically consists of an extended run with colliding protons, ending with a month in which the LHC has to switch to its second role as a heavy ion collider and provide a useful integrated luminosity to three experiments. The first such run in November 2010 demonstrated that this is feasible. Commissioning was extremely rapid, with collisions of Pb nuclei achieved within 55 h of first injection. Stable beams for physics data-taking were declared a little over one day later and the final integrated luminosity substantially exceeded expectations.

TUPZ017	Luminosity and Beam Parameter Evolution for Lead Ion Beams in the LHC	luminosity, emittance, simulation, ion	1840
	J.M. Jowett, R. Bruce, T. Mertens CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Heavy ion beams in the LHC are subject to strong blow-up and debunching effects from intra-beam scattering and luminosity-driven beam losses. The large nuclear charge is at the origin of these effects, both in the cross sections for simple Coulomb scattering and the ultraperipheral interactions occurring in the collisions. We compare predictions from our models with data on luminosity, beam size and intensity evolution from the first heavy ion run of the LHC. This analysis has to take account of the varying capabilities of the LHC beam instrumentation between injection and collision energies.

TUPZ037	Momentum Aperture for the Low Beta* Lattices in RHIC Au-Au Runs	lattice, dynamic-aperture, ion, beam-losses	1891
	Y. Luo, K.A. Brown, W. Fischer, X. Gu, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, V. Schoefer, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. In this article we calculate the momentum apertures with the low beta* lattices of 100 GeV RHIC Au-Au run. With RF re-bucketing, the maximum off-momentum spread reaches 1.7 ·10^-03 at store. To improve the momentum aperture, we need to reduce the nonlinear chromaticities. The methods to correct second order chromaticities in RHIC rings are presented. We also scan beta* at IP6 and IP8 and working point. The challenges to further reduce beta* in the RHIC Au-Au operation are discussed.

TUPZ038	RHIC Performance for FY2011 Au+Au Heavy Ion Run	luminosity, cavity, ion, feedback	1894
	G.J. Marr, L. A. Ahrens, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, J.J. Butler, C. Carlson, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, K.A. Drees, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, W. Fu, C.J. Gardner, D.M. Gassner, J.W. Glenn, X. Gu, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, L.T. Hoff, H. Huang, P.F. Ingrassia, J.P. Jamilkowski, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, J.S. Laster, C. Liu, Y. Luo, M. Mapes, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, S. Polizzo, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, P. Sampson, J. Sandberg, V. Schoefer, C. Schultheiss, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, D. Steski, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, B. Van Kuik, G. Wang, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. Following the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 (Run-10) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Au+Au run [1], RHIC experiment upgrades sought to improve detector capabilities. In turn, accelerator improvements were made to improve the luminosity available to the experiments for this run (Run-11). These improvements included: a redesign of the stochastic cooling systems for improved reliability; a relocation of “common” RF cavities to alleviate intensity limits due to beam loading; and an improved usage of feedback systems to control orbit, tune and coupling during energy ramps as well as while colliding at top energy. We present an overview of changes to the Collider and review the performance of the collider with respect to instantaneous and integrated luminosity goals.

WEPC116	A Matrix Presentation for a Beam Propagator including Particles Spin	collider, storage-ring, controls, scattering	2283
	M. Kosovtsov, S.N. Andrianov, A.N. Ivanov St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
	Particles beam dynamics in magnetic and electrical fields with spin is discussed. This approach provides a constructive method of matrix presentation derivation for a beam propagator in magnetic and electrical fields. The beam propagator is evaluated in according to the well-known Lie algebraic tools. But in contrast to traditional approaches matrix presentation for Lie propagators bases on two-indexes matrices. This approach permit to apply all of matrix algebra opportunities and advantages in contrast with the tenzor presentation based on multi-indexes description. The necessary computation can be realized in symbolic (using computer algebra codes as Mathematica, Maple, Maxima and so on). The corresponding symbolic objects itself can be stored in special databases and used then in numerical computing. Parallel and distributed conception is well acceptable with the suggested matrix formalism. Some symbolic and numerical results are discussed for problems of long term evolution of particles with spin.

WEPS003	SIS18 – Intensity Record with Intermediate Charge State Heavy Ions	ion, beam-losses, injection, acceleration	2484
	P.J. Spiller GSI, Darmstadt, Germany L.H.J. Bozyk FIAS, Frankfurt am Main, Germany P. Puppel HIC for FAIR, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
	Funding: Project partly funded by the European Community DIRAC-PHASE-1 / Contract number: 515876 In order to reach the desired intensities of heavy ion beams for the experiments at FAIR, SIS18 and SIS100 have to be operated with intermediate charge states. Operation with intermediate charge state heavy ions at the intensity level of about 10¹¹ ions per cycle has never been demonstrated elsewhere and requires a dedicated upgrade program for SIS18 and a dedicated machine design for SIS100. The specific problems coming along with the intermediate charge state operation in terms of charge exchange processes at collisions with residual gas atoms, pressure bumps by ion induced desorption and corresponding beam loss appears far below the typical space charge limits. Thus, new design concepts and new technical equipment addressing these issues are developed and realized with highest priority. The upgrade program of SIS18 addressing the goal of minimum ionization beam loss and stable residual gas pressure conditions has been defined in 2005. A major part of this upgrade program has been successfully realized, with the result of a world record in accelerated number of intermediate charge state heavy ions.

WEPS013	Results of the Nuclotron Upgrade Program	ion, vacuum, power-supply, acceleration	2508
	A.V. Eliseev, N.N. Agapov, A.V. Alfeev, V. Andreev, V. Batin, D.E. Donets, E.D. Donets, E.E. Donets, E.V. Gorbachev, A. Govorov, V. Karpinsky, V.D. Kekelidze, H.G. Khodzhibagiyan, A. Kirichenko, A.D. Kovalenko, O.S. Kozlov, N.I. Lebedev, I.N. Meshkov, V.A. Mikhailov, V. Monchinsky, S. Romanov, T.V. Rukoyatkina, A.O. Sidorin, I. Slepnev, V. Slepnev, A.V. Smirnov, A. Sorin, G.V. Trubnikov, B. Vasilishin JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia O.I. Brovko, A.V. Butenko, N.V. Semin, V. Volkov JINR/VBLHEP, Moscow, Russia
	The Nuclotron upgrade – the Nuclotron-M project, which had been started in 2007, involved the modernization of almost all of the accelerator systems, using beam time during seven runs devoted to testing newly installed equipment. Following the project goals, in March 2010 Xe ions were accelerated to about 1.5 GeV/u. In December 2010, the stable and safe operation of the magnetic system was achieved with a main field of 2 T. The successful completion of the project paves the way for further development of the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA).

WEPS031	Future Heavy Ion Linacs at GSI	linac, ion, rfq, cavity	2550
	W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, L.A. Dahl, S. Mickat, B. Schlitt, W. Vinzenz GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	The UNILAC-upgrade program for FAIR will be realized in the next three years; the required U²⁸⁺-beam intensity of 15 emA (for SIS 18 injection). The replacement of the Alvarez-DTL by a new high energy linac is advised to provide a stable operation for the next decades. An additional linac-upgrade option sufficient to boost the beam energy up to 150 MeV/u may help to reach the desired heavy ion intensities in the SIS 100. The SHIP-upgrade program has also to be realized until 2011, such that an enhanced primary beam intensity at the target is available. It is planned to build a new cw-heavy ion-linac behind the present high charge state injector. This linac should feed the GSI flagship experiments SHIP and TASCA, as well as material research, biophysics and plasma physics experiments in the MeV/u-area. The whole injector family is housed by the existing constructions. Different layout scenarios of a multipurpose high intensity heavy ion facility will be presented.

WEPS083	DC280 Cyclotron Central Region with Independent Flat-Top System	cyclotron, acceleration, ion, injection	2703
	I.A. Ivanenko, B. Gikal, G.G. Gulbekyan, N.Yu. Kazarinov JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
	At the present time, the activities on creation of the new isochronous cyclotron DC280 are carried out at the FLNR, JINR. The cyclotron DC280 is intended for accelerating the wide range of ion beams with A/Z= 4 - 7 to energy W= 4 - 8MeV/u and intensity up to 10pmcA. To achieve high-intensity ion beams the cyclotron is equipped with Flat-Top system. At the cyclotron DC280 the Flat-Top system is physically separated from main resonators. The investigation of the cyclotron centre region with independent Flat-Top is presented. The simulation of the beams acceleration is carried out by means of the computer code CENTR.

THOAB03	Commissioning of the Ion Beam Gantry at HIT	ion, proton, dipole, quadrupole	2874
	M. Galonska, R. Cee, Th. Haberer, K. Höppner, A. Peters, S. Scheloske, T. Winkelmann HIT, Heidelberg, Germany
	The Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Facility (HIT) is the first dedicated proton and carbon cancer therapy facility in Europe. It uses a full 3D intensity controlled raster scanning dose delivering method. The ion energy ranges from ca. 50 to 430 MeV/u corresponding to ion penetration depths of 20 to 300 mm in water. The HIT facility comprises the only heavy ion gantry worldwide designed for the beam transport of beams demanding a magnetic rigidity from 1 to 6.6 Tm. The gantry rotation of 360° enables beam scanning patient treatment from arbitrary directions. The libraries of carbon and proton pencil beams at the gantry are now offered with the whole variety of ion beam properties, i.e. 255 energy steps, 4 beam foci, 360°, and 10 intensities (10⁶-1010/spill). The beam has to be adjusted only for a fraction of possible combinations of energy, focus, and gantry angle. These are taken as base points for a calculation of an overall number of about 37,000 different set values per ion type, and one intensity step according to the data supply model. This paper gives an outline on the practical concepts and results of adjusting the required beam properties independent of the gantry angle.
	Slides THOAB03 [4.526 MB]

THPO006	A Digital Power Supply Control Model in Heavy-ion Accelerator based on Dual Nios Cores	power-supply, controls, ion, pick-up	3346
	R.K. Wang, Y.X. Chen, D.Q. Gao, Y.Z. Huang, H.B. Yan, H.H. Yan, Z.Z. Zhou IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China R.K. Wang Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	According to the features of digital power supply and the requirements of pulse mode,this paper introduces a Digital Power Supply Control Mode(DPSCM) in Heavy-Ion Accelerator based on dual Nios cores,which meets the requirements of two basic running modes. The new method develops a system on-chip based on dual Nios cores by using SOPC technology in the Altera EP2C70 FPGA. Compared with traditional DPSCM,the dual Nios cores run simultaneously and cooperate well. As a result,the efficiency of the system is remarkably improved. Further,cores in parallel can realize reference waveforms switch in pulse mode effectively. We choose a 1150A/185V power supply as test bench. The Experimental result indicates that the system can realize the function of pulse mode,and the stability and tracking error meet the design requirements.

THPS036	Development of Thin NCS-foils by N+ Ion Beam Sputtering and Their Characteristics	ion, target, scattering	3499
	I. Sugai, H. Kawakami, M. Oyaizu, Y. Takeda KEK, Ibaraki, Japan T. Hattori, K.K. Kawasaki RLNR, Tokyo, Japan
	We have developed thin Nitride Carbon Stripper foils (NCS-foil) with a higher nitrogen content by ion beam sputtering　method with reactive nitrogen gas. Such NCS-foils have been demonstrated that the foils in range of 10^-25 ug/m2 have shown long-lifetime as stripper foil against high intensity heavy ion beam bombardment. From the results, we found that the nitrogen element in the carbon foils plays very important role of the foil lifetime. Therefore, in order to investigate further influence of the lifetime on the nitrogen amount in the NCS-foils, we measured the sputtering yield at the different sputtering angles and carbon source materials. We also measured the ratio of nitrogen in carbon foil made at the different sputtering angles, target materials and the sputtering voltages of 4-15 kV by means of RBS method. The foil-lifetime made in above different conditions was measured with a 3.2 MeV Ne⁺ ion beam. The lifetime does not essentially depend on the sputtering angles and the target materials, and the maximum and average lifetimes showed 240 and 40 times longer than that of the CM-best foils.

THPS037	Performance Characteristics of HBC-foils by 650 KeV H⁻ and DC High Intensity Ion Beam Irradiation	ion, target, cathode, light-ion	3502
	I. Sugai, Y. Irie, H. Kawakami, M. Oyaizu, A. Takagi, Y. Takeda KEK, Ibaraki, Japan M. Kinsho, Y. Yamazaki, M. Yoshimoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
	Newly developed Hybrid type Boron mixed Carbon stripper foils (HBC-stripper foil) are extensively used for not only J-PARC, for but also LANL-PSR since September of 2007. In order to know further characteristics of the HBC-stripper foils, we measured following parameters; foil lifetimes, thickness reduction, uniformity before and after beam irradiation and foil shrinkage, using 3.2 MeV Ne⁺ DC beam from TIT-Van de Grraff and 650 keV DC proton beam at KEK Cock-Croft accelerators, which are almost the same energy deposition as well as the J-PARC. We also investigated sputtering yield by hydrogen ion beam, thermal conductivity, weight change in heating and density of the HBC-stripper foils. We compared these values with other tested carbon stripper foils such as commercially available carbon foils (CM-foil), synthetic diamond (DM-foil) and nano-tube carbon foils (NTC-foil). Through these experiments, the　HBC-stripper foils showed superior performance characteristics, in especially, on the lifetime at temperature higher than 1800K compared with other tested CM-, DM- and NTC-foils.

THPS074	Design of Superconducting Rotating-gantry for Heavy-ion Therapy	quadrupole, superconducting-magnet, ion, dipole	3601
	Y. Iwata, T. Furukawa, A. I. Itano, K. Mizushima, K. Noda, T. Shirai NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan N. Amemiya KUEE, Kyoto, Japan T. Obana NIFS, Gifu, Japan T. Ogitsu KEK, Ibaraki, Japan T. Tosaka, I. Watanabe Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan M. Yoshimoto JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan
	Tumor therapy using energetic carbon ions, as provided by the HIMAC, has been performed since June 1994, and more than 5000 patients were treated until now. With the successful clinical results, we constructed a new treatment facility. The new facility has three treatment rooms; two of them have both horizontal and vertical fixed-irradiation-ports, and the other has a rotating-gantry-port. For all the ports, a scanning-irradiation method is applied. The fixed-irradiation-ports were constructed and commissioned, and we are now designing the rotating gantry. This isocentric rotating-gantry can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter with irradiation angles of 0-360 degrees. For the magnets, combined-function superconducting-magnets will be employed. The use of the superconducting magnets allowed us to design the compact gantry; the length and radius of the gantry would be approximately 12m and 5m, which are comparable to those of the existing proton gantries. A part of the superconducting magnets will be constructed within this fiscal year. The design of the rotating gantry, including the beam optics as well as details of the superconducting magnets, will be presented.

THPS075	Recent Progress of New Cancer Therapy Facility at HIMAC	synchrotron, ion, target, controls	3604
	T. Shirai, T. Furukawa, T. Inaniwa, Y. Iwata, K. Katagiri, K. Mizushima, S. Sato, E. Takada, Y. Takei, E. Takeshita NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan T. Fujimoto, T. Kadowaki, T. Miyoshi, Y. Sano AEC, Chiba, Japan
	Since 1994, the carbon beam treatment has been continued at Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). The total number of patients treated is more than 5,000 in 2010. Based on more than ten years of experience with HIMAC, we have developed new treatment equipments toward adaptive cancer therapy with heavy ion at New Particle Therapy Research Facility in NIRS.

THPS089	Application of Particle Accelerators to Study High Energy Density Physics in the Laboratory	ion, target, simulation, plasma	3642
	N.A. Tahir, T. Stöhlker GSI, Darmstadt, Germany R. Piriz Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain A. Shutov IPCP, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia A.A. Zharikov BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
	High Energy Density (HED) Physics spans over wide areas of basic and applied physics. Strongly bunched high quality intense particle beams are an excellent tool to generate HED matter in the laboratory. Over the past decade, we have carried out extensive theoretical work to design HED physics experiments for the future FAIR facility at Darmstadt. These experiments will be carried out to study the equation-of-state properties of HED matter, interiors of the Giant planets, growth of hydrodynamic instabilities in solids and ideal fluids in the linear and the non-linear regimes** as well as the solid constitutive properties of materials of interest under dynamic conditions. * N.A. Tahir et al., PRL 95 (2005) 135004. N.A. Tahir et al., New J. Phys. 12 (2010) 073022. * N.A. Tahir et al., Phys. Plasmas 18 (2011) 032704.

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TUPC078

The Impact of the Duty Cycle on Gamma-particle Coincidence Measurements

target, background, ion, extraction

1183

P.R. John, J. Leske, N. Pietralla
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: Supported by BMBF under 06DA9041I
Radioactive ion beam facilities deliver a great variety of different nuclei and thus open new possibilities for gamma-ray spectroscopy with radioactive isotopes. One of the challenges for the experimentalist is the high gamma background. To obtain nearly background-free spectra a gamma-particle coincidence measurement in inverse kinematics is well suited. Also for stable beams this method offers a lot of advantages. A crucial point for experimentalists for such kind of experiments is the duty cycle and the beam structure of the accelerator. For a typical set-up, the effect of the duty cycle and beam structure, e.g. resulting from different ion-sources, on data acquisition and thus the experiment will be shown from the experimentalist's point of view. The results will be discussed for selected accelerators, i.e. UNILAC (GSI, Germany), REX-ISOLDE (CERN, Switzerland) and ATLAS (ANL, USA).

TUPC105

Improvement of Beam Current Monitor with High Tc Current Sensor and SQUID at the RIBF

ion, cyclotron, linac, ECR

1260

T. Watanabe, N. Fukunishi, O. Kamigaito, M. Kase, Y. Sasaki
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan

A highly sensitive beam current (position) monitor with a high Tc (Critical Temperature) current sensor and a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device), that is the HTc-SQUID monitor, has been developed for the RIBF (RI Beam Factory) in RIKEN. The purpose of our work is to measure the DC of high-energy heavy-ion beams nondestructively in such a way that the beams are diagnosed in real time and the beam current extracted from the cyclotron can be recorded without interrupting the beam user's experiments. Both the HTc magnetic shield and the HTc current sensor were dip-coated by thin layer of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O (2223-phase, Tc=10⁶ K) on 99.9 % MgO ceramic substrates. Unlike other existing facilities, all these HTS fabrications are cooled by a low-vibration pulse-tube refrigerator. These technologies enable us to downsize the system. As a result, 1 uA Xe beam intensity (50 MeV/u) was successfully measured with a 10⁰ nA resolution. From last year, aiming at the higher resolution, improvement of the new HTc current sensor with two turn coils has been started. We will report the present status and the measurement results of the HTc-SQUID monitor.

TUPC153

Study of the Response of Silicon Photomultipliers in Presence of Strong Cross-talk Noise

photon, beam-losses, radiation, positron

1389

M. Putignano, A. Intermite
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
M. Putignano, C.P. Welsch
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Funding: Work supported by STFC, the EU under GA-ITN-215080, the Helmholtz Association and GSI under VH-NG-328.
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) are interesting detectors for beam diagnostics applications where they could replace photomultiplier tubes as large dynamic range photon counting devices due to their reduced dimensions and costs, higher photon detection efficiency, immunity to magnetic fields and low operation voltage. Possible applications include longitudinal beam profile measurements by synchrotron light imaging, detection of optical transition radiation for energy spectrum measurements and medical imaging. However, quantitative measurement with SiPMs are jeopardized by the systematic reading error due to Optical Cross-talk (OC), i.e. optical coupling between neighboring diodes in the array. OC results in overestimation of the impinging light level, and reflects the probability of a triggered avalanche creating a photon of suitable energy and direction to fire a second avalanche in another diode. In this paper, we derive a generalized response distribution for SiPM in presence of cross-talk noise, which overcomes the limitations of assumptions currently made in literature and provides a correction of the SiPM response distribution valid for arbitrary large levels of cross-talk.

TUPS007

Construction and Test of a Cryocatcher Prototype for SIS100*

ion, vacuum, controls, beam-losses

1527

L.H.J. Bozyk, D.H.H. Hoffmann
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
H. Kollmus, P.J. Spiller, M. Wengenroth
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: EU-FP-7 project COLMAT, FIAS
The main accelerator, SIS100, of the FAIR-facility will provide heavy ion beams of highest intensities. Ionization beam loss is the most important loss mechanism at operation with high intensity, intermediate charge state heavy ions. A special synchrotron design has been developed for SIS100, aiming for hundred percent control of ionization beam loss by means of a dedicated cold ion catcher system. To suppress dynamic vacuum effects, the cryo catcher system shall also provide a significantly reduced effective desorption yield. The construction and tests of a prototype cryo ion catcher is a workpackage of the EU-FP-7 project COLMAT. A prototype test setup including cryostat has been constructed, manufactured and tested at GSI under realistic conditions with heavy ion beams of the of the heavy ion synchrotron SIS18. The design and results are presented.

TUPS032

Overview of EuCARD Accelerator and Material Research at GSI

ion, collimation, radiation, quadrupole

1602

J. Stadlmann, H. Kollmus, E. Mustafin, N. Pyka, P.J. Spiller, I. Strašík, N.A. Tahir, M. Tomut, C. Trautmann
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
L.H.J. Bozyk
TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: EuCARD is co-funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 227579
EuCARD is a joined accelerator R&D initiative funded by the EU. Within this program, GSI Darmstadt is performing R&D on materials for accelerators and collimators in WP8(ColMat). GSI covers prototyping and testing of a cryogenic ion catcher for FAIR's main synchrotron SIS100, simulations and studies on activation of accelerator components e.g. halo collimatiors as well as irradiation experiments on materials foreseen to be used in FAIR accelerators and the LHC upgrade program. Carbon-carbon composites, silicon carbide and copper-diamond composite samples have been irradiated with heavy ions at various GSI beamlines and their radiation induced property changes were characterized. Numerical simulations on the possible damage by LHC and SPS beams to different targets have been performed. Simulations and modelling of activation and long term radiation induced damage to accelerator components have started. A prototype ion catcher has been built and first experiments have been performed in 2011. New collaborations with other institutes and industry in the EuCARD framework have been established and findings of the joined R&D effort influence decisions in the FAIR project and LHC upgrade.

TUPZ016

First Run of the LHC as a Heavy-ion Collider

ion, luminosity, proton, injection

1837

J.M. Jowett, G. Arduini, R.W. Assmann, P. Baudrenghien, C. Carli, M. Lamont, M. Solfaroli Camillocci, J.A. Uythoven, W. Venturini Delsolaro, J. Wenninger
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

A year of LHC operation typically consists of an extended run with colliding protons, ending with a month in which the LHC has to switch to its second role as a heavy ion collider and provide a useful integrated luminosity to three experiments. The first such run in November 2010 demonstrated that this is feasible. Commissioning was extremely rapid, with collisions of Pb nuclei achieved within 55 h of first injection. Stable beams for physics data-taking were declared a little over one day later and the final integrated luminosity substantially exceeded expectations.

TUPZ017

Luminosity and Beam Parameter Evolution for Lead Ion Beams in the LHC

luminosity, emittance, simulation, ion

1840

J.M. Jowett, R. Bruce, T. Mertens
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Heavy ion beams in the LHC are subject to strong blow-up and debunching effects from intra-beam scattering and luminosity-driven beam losses. The large nuclear charge is at the origin of these effects, both in the cross sections for simple Coulomb scattering and the ultraperipheral interactions occurring in the collisions. We compare predictions from our models with data on luminosity, beam size and intensity evolution from the first heavy ion run of the LHC. This analysis has to take account of the varying capabilities of the LHC beam instrumentation between injection and collision energies.

TUPZ037

Momentum Aperture for the Low Beta* Lattices in RHIC Au-Au Runs

lattice, dynamic-aperture, ion, beam-losses

1891

Y. Luo, K.A. Brown, W. Fischer, X. Gu, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, V. Schoefer, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
In this article we calculate the momentum apertures with the low beta* lattices of 100 GeV RHIC Au-Au run. With RF re-bucketing, the maximum off-momentum spread reaches 1.7 ·10^-03 at store. To improve the momentum aperture, we need to reduce the nonlinear chromaticities. The methods to correct second order chromaticities in RHIC rings are presented. We also scan beta* at IP6 and IP8 and working point. The challenges to further reduce beta* in the RHIC Au-Au operation are discussed.

TUPZ038

RHIC Performance for FY2011 Au+Au Heavy Ion Run

luminosity, cavity, ion, feedback

1894

G.J. Marr, L. A. Ahrens, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, J.J. Butler, C. Carlson, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, K.A. Drees, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, W. Fu, C.J. Gardner, D.M. Gassner, J.W. Glenn, X. Gu, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, L.T. Hoff, H. Huang, P.F. Ingrassia, J.P. Jamilkowski, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, J.S. Laster, C. Liu, Y. Luo, M. Mapes, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, S. Polizzo, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, P. Sampson, J. Sandberg, V. Schoefer, C. Schultheiss, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, D. Steski, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, B. Van Kuik, G. Wang, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Following the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 (Run-10) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Au+Au run [1], RHIC experiment upgrades sought to improve detector capabilities. In turn, accelerator improvements were made to improve the luminosity available to the experiments for this run (Run-11). These improvements included: a redesign of the stochastic cooling systems for improved reliability; a relocation of “common” RF cavities to alleviate intensity limits due to beam loading; and an improved usage of feedback systems to control orbit, tune and coupling during energy ramps as well as while colliding at top energy. We present an overview of changes to the Collider and review the performance of the collider with respect to instantaneous and integrated luminosity goals.

WEPC116

A Matrix Presentation for a Beam Propagator including Particles Spin

collider, storage-ring, controls, scattering

2283

M. Kosovtsov, S.N. Andrianov, A.N. Ivanov
St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Particles beam dynamics in magnetic and electrical fields with spin is discussed. This approach provides a constructive method of matrix presentation derivation for a beam propagator in magnetic and electrical fields. The beam propagator is evaluated in according to the well-known Lie algebraic tools. But in contrast to traditional approaches matrix presentation for Lie propagators bases on two-indexes matrices. This approach permit to apply all of matrix algebra opportunities and advantages in contrast with the tenzor presentation based on multi-indexes description. The necessary computation can be realized in symbolic (using computer algebra codes as Mathematica, Maple, Maxima and so on). The corresponding symbolic objects itself can be stored in special databases and used then in numerical computing. Parallel and distributed conception is well acceptable with the suggested matrix formalism. Some symbolic and numerical results are discussed for problems of long term evolution of particles with spin.

WEPS003

SIS18 – Intensity Record with Intermediate Charge State Heavy Ions

ion, beam-losses, injection, acceleration

2484

P.J. Spiller
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
L.H.J. Bozyk
FIAS, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
P. Puppel
HIC for FAIR, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Funding: Project partly funded by the European Community DIRAC-PHASE-1 / Contract number: 515876
In order to reach the desired intensities of heavy ion beams for the experiments at FAIR, SIS18 and SIS100 have to be operated with intermediate charge states. Operation with intermediate charge state heavy ions at the intensity level of about 10¹¹ ions per cycle has never been demonstrated elsewhere and requires a dedicated upgrade program for SIS18 and a dedicated machine design for SIS100. The specific problems coming along with the intermediate charge state operation in terms of charge exchange processes at collisions with residual gas atoms, pressure bumps by ion induced desorption and corresponding beam loss appears far below the typical space charge limits. Thus, new design concepts and new technical equipment addressing these issues are developed and realized with highest priority. The upgrade program of SIS18 addressing the goal of minimum ionization beam loss and stable residual gas pressure conditions has been defined in 2005. A major part of this upgrade program has been successfully realized, with the result of a world record in accelerated number of intermediate charge state heavy ions.

WEPS013

Results of the Nuclotron Upgrade Program

ion, vacuum, power-supply, acceleration

2508

A.V. Eliseev, N.N. Agapov, A.V. Alfeev, V. Andreev, V. Batin, D.E. Donets, E.D. Donets, E.E. Donets, E.V. Gorbachev, A. Govorov, V. Karpinsky, V.D. Kekelidze, H.G. Khodzhibagiyan, A. Kirichenko, A.D. Kovalenko, O.S. Kozlov, N.I. Lebedev, I.N. Meshkov, V.A. Mikhailov, V. Monchinsky, S. Romanov, T.V. Rukoyatkina, A.O. Sidorin, I. Slepnev, V. Slepnev, A.V. Smirnov, A. Sorin, G.V. Trubnikov, B. Vasilishin
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
O.I. Brovko, A.V. Butenko, N.V. Semin, V. Volkov
JINR/VBLHEP, Moscow, Russia

The Nuclotron upgrade – the Nuclotron-M project, which had been started in 2007, involved the modernization of almost all of the accelerator systems, using beam time during seven runs devoted to testing newly installed equipment. Following the project goals, in March 2010 Xe ions were accelerated to about 1.5 GeV/u. In December 2010, the stable and safe operation of the magnetic system was achieved with a main field of 2 T. The successful completion of the project paves the way for further development of the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA).

WEPS031

Future Heavy Ion Linacs at GSI

linac, ion, rfq, cavity

2550

W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, L.A. Dahl, S. Mickat, B. Schlitt, W. Vinzenz
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

The UNILAC-upgrade program for FAIR will be realized in the next three years; the required U²⁸⁺-beam intensity of 15 emA (for SIS 18 injection). The replacement of the Alvarez-DTL by a new high energy linac is advised to provide a stable operation for the next decades. An additional linac-upgrade option sufficient to boost the beam energy up to 150 MeV/u may help to reach the desired heavy ion intensities in the SIS 100. The SHIP-upgrade program has also to be realized until 2011, such that an enhanced primary beam intensity at the target is available. It is planned to build a new cw-heavy ion-linac behind the present high charge state injector. This linac should feed the GSI flagship experiments SHIP and TASCA, as well as material research, biophysics and plasma physics experiments in the MeV/u-area. The whole injector family is housed by the existing constructions. Different layout scenarios of a multipurpose high intensity heavy ion facility will be presented.

WEPS083

DC280 Cyclotron Central Region with Independent Flat-Top System

cyclotron, acceleration, ion, injection

2703

I.A. Ivanenko, B. Gikal, G.G. Gulbekyan, N.Yu. Kazarinov
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

At the present time, the activities on creation of the new isochronous cyclotron DC280 are carried out at the FLNR, JINR. The cyclotron DC280 is intended for accelerating the wide range of ion beams with A/Z= 4 - 7 to energy W= 4 - 8MeV/u and intensity up to 10pmcA. To achieve high-intensity ion beams the cyclotron is equipped with Flat-Top system. At the cyclotron DC280 the Flat-Top system is physically separated from main resonators. The investigation of the cyclotron centre region with independent Flat-Top is presented. The simulation of the beams acceleration is carried out by means of the computer code CENTR.

THOAB03

Commissioning of the Ion Beam Gantry at HIT

ion, proton, dipole, quadrupole

2874

M. Galonska, R. Cee, Th. Haberer, K. Höppner, A. Peters, S. Scheloske, T. Winkelmann
HIT, Heidelberg, Germany

The Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Facility (HIT) is the first dedicated proton and carbon cancer therapy facility in Europe. It uses a full 3D intensity controlled raster scanning dose delivering method. The ion energy ranges from ca. 50 to 430 MeV/u corresponding to ion penetration depths of 20 to 300 mm in water. The HIT facility comprises the only heavy ion gantry worldwide designed for the beam transport of beams demanding a magnetic rigidity from 1 to 6.6 Tm. The gantry rotation of 360° enables beam scanning patient treatment from arbitrary directions. The libraries of carbon and proton pencil beams at the gantry are now offered with the whole variety of ion beam properties, i.e. 255 energy steps, 4 beam foci, 360°, and 10 intensities (10⁶-1010/spill). The beam has to be adjusted only for a fraction of possible combinations of energy, focus, and gantry angle. These are taken as base points for a calculation of an overall number of about 37,000 different set values per ion type, and one intensity step according to the data supply model. This paper gives an outline on the practical concepts and results of adjusting the required beam properties independent of the gantry angle.

Slides THOAB03 [4.526 MB]

THPO006

A Digital Power Supply Control Model in Heavy-ion Accelerator based on Dual Nios Cores

power-supply, controls, ion, pick-up

3346

R.K. Wang, Y.X. Chen, D.Q. Gao, Y.Z. Huang, H.B. Yan, H.H. Yan, Z.Z. Zhou
IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
R.K. Wang
Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

According to the features of digital power supply and the requirements of pulse mode,this paper introduces a Digital Power Supply Control Mode(DPSCM) in Heavy-Ion Accelerator based on dual Nios cores,which meets the requirements of two basic running modes. The new method develops a system on-chip based on dual Nios cores by using SOPC technology in the Altera EP2C70 FPGA. Compared with traditional DPSCM,the dual Nios cores run simultaneously and cooperate well. As a result,the efficiency of the system is remarkably improved. Further,cores in parallel can realize reference waveforms switch in pulse mode effectively. We choose a 1150A/185V power supply as test bench. The Experimental result indicates that the system can realize the function of pulse mode,and the stability and tracking error meet the design requirements.

THPS036

Development of Thin NCS-foils by N+ Ion Beam Sputtering and Their Characteristics

ion, target, scattering

3499

I. Sugai, H. Kawakami, M. Oyaizu, Y. Takeda
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Hattori, K.K. Kawasaki
RLNR, Tokyo, Japan

We have developed thin Nitride Carbon Stripper foils (NCS-foil) with a higher nitrogen content by ion beam sputtering　method with reactive nitrogen gas. Such NCS-foils have been demonstrated that the foils in range of 10^-25 ug/m2 have shown long-lifetime as stripper foil against high intensity heavy ion beam bombardment. From the results, we found that the nitrogen element in the carbon foils plays very important role of the foil lifetime. Therefore, in order to investigate further influence of the lifetime on the nitrogen amount in the NCS-foils, we measured the sputtering yield at the different sputtering angles and carbon source materials. We also measured the ratio of nitrogen in carbon foil made at the different sputtering angles, target materials and the sputtering voltages of 4-15 kV by means of RBS method. The foil-lifetime made in above different conditions was measured with a 3.2 MeV Ne⁺ ion beam. The lifetime does not essentially depend on the sputtering angles and the target materials, and the maximum and average lifetimes showed 240 and 40 times longer than that of the CM-best foils.

THPS037

Performance Characteristics of HBC-foils by 650 KeV H⁻ and DC High Intensity Ion Beam Irradiation

ion, target, cathode, light-ion

3502

I. Sugai, Y. Irie, H. Kawakami, M. Oyaizu, A. Takagi, Y. Takeda
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
M. Kinsho, Y. Yamazaki, M. Yoshimoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan

Newly developed Hybrid type Boron mixed Carbon stripper foils (HBC-stripper foil) are extensively used for not only J-PARC, for but also LANL-PSR since September of 2007. In order to know further characteristics of the HBC-stripper foils, we measured following parameters; foil lifetimes, thickness reduction, uniformity before and after beam irradiation and foil shrinkage, using 3.2 MeV Ne⁺ DC beam from TIT-Van de Grraff and 650 keV DC proton beam at KEK Cock-Croft accelerators, which are almost the same energy deposition as well as the J-PARC. We also investigated sputtering yield by hydrogen ion beam, thermal conductivity, weight change in heating and density of the HBC-stripper foils. We compared these values with other tested carbon stripper foils such as commercially available carbon foils (CM-foil), synthetic diamond (DM-foil) and nano-tube carbon foils (NTC-foil). Through these experiments, the　HBC-stripper foils showed superior performance characteristics, in especially, on the lifetime at temperature higher than 1800K compared with other tested CM-, DM- and NTC-foils.

THPS074

Design of Superconducting Rotating-gantry for Heavy-ion Therapy

quadrupole, superconducting-magnet, ion, dipole

3601

Y. Iwata, T. Furukawa, A. I. Itano, K. Mizushima, K. Noda, T. Shirai
NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan
N. Amemiya
KUEE, Kyoto, Japan
T. Obana
NIFS, Gifu, Japan
T. Ogitsu
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Tosaka, I. Watanabe
Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan
M. Yoshimoto
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan

Tumor therapy using energetic carbon ions, as provided by the HIMAC, has been performed since June 1994, and more than 5000 patients were treated until now. With the successful clinical results, we constructed a new treatment facility. The new facility has three treatment rooms; two of them have both horizontal and vertical fixed-irradiation-ports, and the other has a rotating-gantry-port. For all the ports, a scanning-irradiation method is applied. The fixed-irradiation-ports were constructed and commissioned, and we are now designing the rotating gantry. This isocentric rotating-gantry can transport heavy ions having 430 MeV/u to the isocenter with irradiation angles of 0-360 degrees. For the magnets, combined-function superconducting-magnets will be employed. The use of the superconducting magnets allowed us to design the compact gantry; the length and radius of the gantry would be approximately 12m and 5m, which are comparable to those of the existing proton gantries. A part of the superconducting magnets will be constructed within this fiscal year. The design of the rotating gantry, including the beam optics as well as details of the superconducting magnets, will be presented.

THPS075

Recent Progress of New Cancer Therapy Facility at HIMAC

synchrotron, ion, target, controls

3604

T. Shirai, T. Furukawa, T. Inaniwa, Y. Iwata, K. Katagiri, K. Mizushima, S. Sato, E. Takada, Y. Takei, E. Takeshita
NIRS, Chiba-shi, Japan
T. Fujimoto, T. Kadowaki, T. Miyoshi, Y. Sano
AEC, Chiba, Japan

Since 1994, the carbon beam treatment has been continued at Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). The total number of patients treated is more than 5,000 in 2010. Based on more than ten years of experience with HIMAC, we have developed new treatment equipments toward adaptive cancer therapy with heavy ion at New Particle Therapy Research Facility in NIRS.

THPS089

Application of Particle Accelerators to Study High Energy Density Physics in the Laboratory

ion, target, simulation, plasma

3642

N.A. Tahir, T. Stöhlker
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
R. Piriz
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
A. Shutov
IPCP, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia
A.A. Zharikov
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

High Energy Density (HED) Physics spans over wide areas of basic and applied physics. Strongly bunched high quality intense particle beams are an excellent tool to generate HED matter in the laboratory. Over the past decade, we have carried out extensive theoretical work to design HED physics experiments for the future FAIR facility at Darmstadt. These experiments will be carried out to study the equation-of-state properties of HED matter*, interiors of the Giant planets**, growth of hydrodynamic instabilities in solids and ideal fluids in the linear and the non-linear regimes*** as well as the solid constitutive properties of materials of interest under dynamic conditions.
* N.A. Tahir et al., PRL 95 (2005) 135004.
** N.A. Tahir et al., New J. Phys. 12 (2010) 073022.
*** N.A. Tahir et al., Phys. Plasmas 18 (2011) 032704.