DESIR

DESIR - DECA

Bertram Blank — 2013-04-09T16:35:28Z

The DESIR COllaboration Agremment (DECA) was signed by 14 French and European partners in January 2012. It sets up the management scheme for the DESIR construction and commissioning phases and defines the contributions of the different partners. It is meant to stop with the start of routinely operation of the DESIR facility.

The full text of the DECA can be found here.

The photo below was taken after the signature of the DECA and other collaboration agreements during the SPIRAL2 week 2012.

DESIR - EQUIPEX

Bertram Blank — 2013-04-09T15:48:29Z

The DESIR-EQUIPEX Program

In December 2011, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research allocated 9 M€ to the DESIR-EQUIPEX program within the “http://investissement-avenir.gouvernement.fr/” call. 8 M€ will be devoted from July 2012 to December 2017 to the construction of the DESIR beam transport tunnels, to an experimental hall of about 900 m2 built on top of a basement of the same size, and to the implementation of a beam line between the S3 Low-energy branch facility (S3-LEB) and the DESIR General Purpose Ion Buncher and cooler (GPIB) inside the DESIR hall. 1 M€ will be devoted from October 2017 to December 2019 to the operation of the facility.

Management

The DESIR-EQUIPEX program objectives were defined in March 2013 in an agreement signed by GANIL, coordinating the program, and the French National Research Agency (ANR). The program involves six French laboratories belonging to the CNRS-IN2P3 and the CEA-DSM institutes:

- CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan, CNRS-IN2P3 and University of Bordeaux 1

Scientific coordinator: B. Blank

- GANIL, CNRS-IN2P3/CEA-DSM

Scientific coordinator: J.-C. Thomas

- CIMAP, CEA, CNRS, ENSICAEN and University of Caen Basse-Normandie

Scientific coordinator: E. Balanzat

- IPHC Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3 and University of Strasbourg

Scientific coordinator: Ph. Dessagne

- IPN Orsay, CNRS-IN2P3 and University of Paris-Sud 11

Scientific coordinator: L. Perrot

- LPC Caen, CNRS-IN2P3, ENSICAEN and University of Caen Basse-Normandie

Scientific coordinator: X. Fléchard

The DESIR-EQUIPEX program will be managed within the framework of a consortium agreement signed by the six partners of the program. The connexion of the program to the DESIR Collaboration Council and to the DESIR Steering committee will be defined in the DEsir Collaboration Agreement (DECA), signed in January 2012. Figure 1 shows the DESIR management structure.

Figure 1: DESIR Management Scheme.

Work package breakdown structure

The DESIR-EQUIPEX program is divided into 7 work packages, managed by the different partners. A presentation of the different work packages was given at the DESIR-EQUIPEX kick-off meeting, held at IPN Orsay on March 29, 2013.

WP0: Program coordination - GANIL

Ø Coordination of the different tasks, organization of collaboration meetings

WP1: Infrastructure - GANIL

Ø Phase 1: Design and construction of the DESIR beam transport tunnels and of the DESIR building (experimental hall + basement)

Ø Phase 2: Facility operation

WP2: Beam lines – IPN Orsay

Ø in collaboration with GANIL and CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan

Ø Phase 1: Design of the DESIR beam lines, construction and test of a prototype section, implementation of the beam line from S3-LEB to the DESIR experimental hall

Ø Phase 2: Operation of the DESIR beam lines (GANIL)

WP3: Identification station – IPHC Strasbourg

Ø in collaboration with GANIL and LPC Caen

Ø Phase 1: Design and construction of the DESIR identification station.

Ø Phase 2: Operation of the DESIR identification station.

WP4: General purpose Ion Buncher – GANIL + LPC Caen

Ø Installation and operation of the GPIB developed at CENBG.

WP5: Beam line equipment remote control – CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan

Ø Design, implementation and maintenance of the beam line equipment remote control

Ø in collaboration with GANIL and IPN Orsay

WP6: Applications – GANIL + CIMAP

Ø search for industrial and medical applications, pluridisciplinary researches

Timeline

The timeline of the DESIR EQUIPEX Program is displayed in Figure 2. The Program is divided in two phases, from July 2012 to December 2017 for the first one and from October 2017 to December 2019 for the second one.

The phase 1 of the DESIR EQUIPEX program consists in (July 2012 -> December 2017):

- The design study of the DESIR beam lines, including the construction and the test of a prototype section: From July 2012 to November 2014,

- the construction of the DESIR beam transport tunnels: From April 2016 to May 2017,

- The construction of the DESIR experimental hall and its basement: From September 2016 to May 2017,

- The implementation of the beam line between the S3-LEB and the DESIR experimental hall: From October 2016 to October 2017,

- The implementation of the main beam line and of the experimental setups inside the DESIR hall: From June 2016 to December 2017.

The phase 2 of the DESIR EQUIPEX program consists in (October 2017 -> December 2019):

- The commissioning of the beam line between S3-LEB and the DESIR hall: From October 2017 to April 2018,

- The commissioning of the main beam line in the DESIR experimental hall and of the experimental setups: From December 2017 to June 2018,

- The operation of the DESIR facility: From June 2018 to December 2019.

Figure 2: Timeline of the DESIR EQUIPEX Program.

Manpower involvement

The manpower contribution of the different partners to the DESIR EQUIPEX Program is detailed in Table 1. It amounts in total to about 364 men.months over 90 months, corresponding to about 4.2 M€ of manpower costs.

In summary, the individual contributions of the partners are the following:

GANIL:	204.3 m.m
IPNO:	84.8 m.m
CENBG:	29.2 m.m
IPHC:	24.1 m.m
LPC Caen:	17.0 m.m
CIMAP:	4.1 m.m

Table 1: Manpower contribution of the partners in the DESIR-EQUIPEX Program.

Kick-off meeting

Bertram Blank — 2013-04-02T15:04:30Z

The DESIR-EQUIPEX kick-off meeting took place at IPN Orsay in the morning of March 29, 2013. It was coupled with the first meeting of the DESIR Steering Committee and the DESIR Collaboration Council being respectively the political and the scientific body of the DESIR collaboration.

The programme of the day can be found in the following. A click on the different talks allows to get a PDF version of the slides presented. The list of participants is attached here. The minutes for the meeting of the DESIR Steering Committee and the DESIR Collaboration Council can be found here.

Réunion de lancement DESIR EQUIPEX

and

DESIR Steering Committee / DESIR Collaboration Council meeting

Friday, March 29, 2013 - IPN Orsay

10h-10h15 : accueil

Réunion de lancement EQUIPEX DESIR

Chair : S. Gales, IPNO

10h15 - Mot de bienvenue à l'IPNO : F. Azaiez, IPNO

10h20 - Mot d'introduction : F. Staley, GANIL

10h25 – 12h30

Etat du projet SPIRAL2 (planning) : M. Jacquemet, GANIL

Etat de la collaboration DESIR (organisation, avancement) : B. Blank, CENBG

Etat du projet EQUIPEX-DESIR (organisation, lots) : J.C. Thomas, GANIL

Modalités de suivi de projet : Laura Lallement, ANR

Présentation des partenaires (lots, budget, manpower)

o GANIL-CIMAP : J.C Thomas, GANIL

o CENBG : B. Blank

o IPHC : Ph. Dessagne

o IPNO : L. Perrot

o LPCC : D. Durand

12h30 – 13h

Financement complémentaire :

o Tutelles, ANR, FEDER, Collaborations internationales

13h00 – 14h30 Déjeuner – Salle A015

Steering Committee and Collaboration Council meeting

Chair: B. Blank, CENBG

14h30 – 16h00

Introduction: F. Staley, GANIL

DESIR Management structure, B. Blank

Creation of DESIR Steering Committee:

o Election of chair and vice-chair

o Discussion about the DESIR Management Board

Creation of DESIR Collaboration Council:

o Election of DESIR spokes-person

16h00-17h00

Coffee break

Visit of the ALTO facility

Letters of intent

Bertram Blank — 2013-01-25T11:03:12Z

In December 2010, the SPIRAL2 Scientific Council asked for submission of Letters of intent for experiments at the future DESIR facility. In total, 21 LOIs were submitted by the DESIR community in the context of decay studies, laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and fundamental-interaction studies. All of them were judged very unenthusiastically by the SAC. They are listed below.

LoI_SP2_Ph2 1: Precision mass measurements of nuclei with Z 104 from S3 with MLLTRAP at DESIR - P. G. Thirolf

LoI_SP2_Ph2 2: High-precision determination of the half-lives, branching ratios, and Q values of superallowed decays in ⁶⁶As and ⁷⁰Br with BESTIOL and MLLTRAP at DESIR - C. Weber

LoI_SP2_Ph2 3: Search for cluster radioactivity in the region above ¹⁰⁰Sn - B. Blank

LoI_SP2_Ph2 4: The mass of ¹⁰⁰Sn and the extraordinary binding of N = Z nuclides - D. Lunney

LoI_SP2_Ph2 5: Nuclear structure and electron shake-off in strontium, yttrium and zirconium - P. Campbell

LoI_SP2_Ph2 6: Charge radius change and nuclear moment measurement in the N=50 and N=104 region using the LUMIERE setup at the DESIR facility - F. Le Blanc

LoI_SP2_Ph2 7: Neutron monopole drift towards ⁷⁸Ni investigated by gamma spectroscopy following ⁸¹Cu beta decay - D. Verney

LoI_SP2_Ph2 8: High precision measurements in mirror beta decays to test the CVC hypothesis and the CKM unitarity - E. Lienard

LoI_SP2_Ph2 9: Half-life and binding - energy measurements for rapid-neutron capture nucleosynthesis - T. Kurtukian-Nieto

LoI_SP2_Ph2 10: Study of quantum phase transitions around A = 100 from the nuclear mass surface - D. Lunney

LoI_SP2_Ph2 11: Collinear laser spectroscopy of neutron deficient isotopes of Ag and Sn across the N=50 shell closure - M. L. Bissell

LoI_SP2_Ph2 12: Beta-delayed spectroscopy of laser-polarized beams - D. T. Yordanov

LoI_SP2_Ph2 13: Beta-delayed two-proton emission studies - J. Giovinazzo

LoI_SP2_Ph2 14: Study of intruder configurations in the neutron-rich Co isotopes - T. E. Cocolios

LoI_SP2_Ph2 15: Decay spectroscopy of the very neutron-rich Kr isotopes at SPIRAL2-DESIR - F. Delaunay

LoI_SP2_Ph2 16: Charge structure of manganese and iron isotopes as proton separation energy approaches zero - P. Campbell

LoI_SP2_Ph2 17: Decay spectroscopy studies around ¹¹⁰Zr at DESIR - S. Grevy

LoI_SP2_Ph2 18: Exploring the transition from order to chaos in the neutron deficient nuclei from 28 ≤ Z < 50 - Maria Jose G. Borge

LoI_SP2_Ph2 19: Beta strength measurements in the ¹⁰⁰Sn region - A. Algora

LoI_SP2_Ph2 20: Beta strength measurements around the doubly-magic neutron rich ⁷⁸Ni - J. L. Tain

LoI_SP2_Ph2 52: Beta decay and the N = 82 waiting point nuclei - B. Rubio

PhD at IPN Orsay

Bertram Blank — 2012-12-14T08:19:24Z

A PhD thesis fellowship is open at IPN Orsay to work on the study of the DESIR beam lines. Details can be found in the following document.

Meeting Kolkota

Bertram Blank — 2012-10-18T14:21:08Z

Minutes

Talk by Bertram Blank

Talks 2012

Bertram Blank — 2012-06-05T15:41:48Z

- SAC -SC meeting, Caen, 25-26/01/2012:

J.-C. Thomas: DESIR Progress Report

- SAC -SC meeting, Paris, 7-8/06/2012:

B. Blank: DESIR Progress Report

Talks 2011

Bertram Blank — 2012-02-27T11:08:55Z

- BARC - GANIL meeting, Mumbai, 21-22/11/2011:

B. Blank: DESIR at SPIRAL2

DESIR equipment reports

Bertram Blank — 2012-02-07T21:45:08Z

HRS technical report January 2012

SAC reports

Bertram Blank — 2012-02-07T21:38:32Z

DESIR report November 2007

DESIR report June 2008

DESIR report September 2009

DESIR report January 2010

DESIR report September 2011

DESIR report January 2012

DESIR report June 2012