The department of Nuclear Physics

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Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and
Nuclear Engineering - IFIN HH
IFIN-HH departments and facilities
The department of Nuclear Physics The department
of Theoretical Physics The department of Particle
Physics The Department of Applied Nuclear
Physics The department of Life and Enviromental
Sciences Center of Computing and Information
Technology Radioisotope Production
Center Multipurpose Irradiation Facility Center
(IRASM) International Nuclear Information System
(INIS) Nuclear Training Center Radiation
Safety Tandem Cyclotron Reactor(in state of
conservation and it is developing a
decommissioning project )
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IFIN-HH International Cooperation
Projects with EU Framework ProgrammeFP7, FP6,
FP5 EURATOM PHARE
International Organizations CERN - European
Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneve JINR -
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna IAEA
- International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna
FAIR-GSI - Facility for Antiproton and Ion
Research, Darmstadt
National Organizations from abroad CEA -
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, France IN2P3
- Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de
Physique des Particules, France INFN - Instituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
International Experiments SPIRAL 2 GANIL,
France KASCADE - Grande - FZK, Germany LOPES -
FZK, Germany H1 - DESY, Hamburg, Germany Other
types of collaborations Bilateral
Collaborations Inter-academic Exchange
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IFIN-HH_at_CERNALICE - A Large Ion Collider
Experiment ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC
ApparatuS LHCb - A Large Hadron Collider beauty
experiment Proton Synchrotron DIRAC - DImeson
Relativistic Atom Complex WLCG - Worldwide LHC
Computing Grid Romania participates with a Tier
2 center in the organization's project in the
field of GRID networks with scientific
applications
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IFIN-HH _at_FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion
Research) Experiments NUSTAR (NUclear
STructure And Reactions) PANDA (Proton
ANtiproton DArmstadt) SPARC (Stored Particle
Atomic Physics Collaboration) CBM (Compressed
Baryonic Matter)
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IFIN_at_JINR - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Running grants and projects in 2008
A large number of projects and grants, based on
protocols, in the frame of romanian cash
contribution to JINR
Development of GRID and Parallel Computing
Facilities at LIT-JINR and Magurele
Campus Development of the Detection Facility for
New Experiments at Nuclotron Neutron scattering
investigations of superparamagnetic particles
produced by bio-engineering procedures Synthesis
and study of decay properties of the products of
complete fusion reaction with heavy ion Shape
Coexistence and Configuration Mixings in Nuclei
with A60-100 at the TANDEM Facility of
IFIN-HH Cosmological Models for an Anisotropic
Universe Environmental impact of selected
Phosphate Fertilizers plants in Russia and
Romania Structural investigations of asphaltene
aggregation concentration, temperature and
solvent effects Determination of the length of
neutron-electron scattering from the slow neutron
scattering on a mix of wolfram isotopes Statistic
al methods to describe general systems of
interacting particles, from condensed matter to
heavy ion collisions Neutron depolarization
investigations of ferrofluids and nanocomposites
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Department of Particle Physics
Staff
RD 25 people 10 Doctors in Physics, senior
researchers 3 researchers 4 researcher
assistant 6 high education graduates Other 3
secondary education
Participation in International Experiments ATLAS
LHCb PANDA (at FAIR) H1 (HERA) DEAR (DaFne
Exotic Atoms Research) SIDDHARTA (Silicon
Drift Detector for Hadronic Atom reasearch by
Timming Applications) , INFN Frascati
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Participation in LHCb

• Romanian group (spokesperson for IFIN-HH - Dr.
  Cornelia Coca up to Nov. 2004) consisting in
  particle physicists, PhD students, engineers and
  technicians of IFIN-HH has officially joined the
  LHCb Collaboration in February 1996.
• The Romanian group has been
• working on the Hadron Calorimeter project
• - contributed very strongly to the prototype
  construction and the beam tests by
• delivering approx 65 of the mechanics
  participating in (mechanics optic) assembling of
  the prototype Hcal modules
• developing a computer controlled High Voltage
  distribution system for individual setting of the
  HV on each PMT for gain adjustment, used during
  the beam tests data taking (1998-2001)
  developing a new HVPS experimental model, with
  control by CUN-bus, for parallel supplying PMTs
  for hadron calorimeter
• participating in beam test of Hcal prototype and
  offline analysis of the data taken.
• -later on producing a small part of the mechanics
  for hadron calorimeter detector.

• We also deal with LHCb optimization and physics
  studies, by using simulated data, as
• calibration of the calorimeters using MIPs
  signal
• contribution to b-baryons studies with LHCb
  detector
• This group has been co-author of the LHCb
  Technical Proposal (1998) and LHCb Calorimeters
  Technical Design Report (2000), basic documents
  for the approval of the LHCb experiment
  (September 1998) and the construction of the
  Calorimeter system.
• Other activity
• Study of the K--gt??? rare decay at CERN SPS
  (common project with JINR/LPP, 2008)

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The current members of the group who intends to
join the FCAL collaboration
Marius Ciprian Orlandea graduate Physics
Faculty, Bucharest, in 2001, IFIN-HH employee
Nov. 2001, Researcher from 2005, also PHD
student Eliza Teodorescu graduate student of
Physics Faculty, Bucharest, in 2006, IFIN-HH
employee Nov. 2006, Asistent Researcher from
2007, also Master student Laurentiu Dumitru
4-th year student of the Faculty of Science and
Information Technology in Bucharest, spent 1
year at the Faculty of Computer Engineering Univ.
of Southern Denmark, part-time employee of this
group Dr. Cornelia Coca Senior Researcher Dr.
Horia Petrascu Senior Researcher, experimental
nuclear physics and detector specialist (Dept. of
Nuclear Physics)
We expect the current group to increase over the
next few years
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Contributions to FCAL until now
Simulations regarding energy spectra (kinetic
energy and depositions) of electrons and
positrons in sensor layers of the BeamCal
photon density and energy spectra as a
function of the layer depth implementation of
the geometry for the front-end electronics and
for the support tube surrounding the BeamCal
neutron density and fluences in sensor layers
and in electronics
Future possible contributions

• Continue the simulation studies for the BeamCal
• Other needed simulations
• Participate with personnel in testbeams of sensor
  materials
• Other contributions according with discussions,
  maybe some engineering support

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Network Topology
Hardware resources of our group

• Computing system - general overview
• 2 segments for security reasons
• Private segmentworker-nodes and storage
• Public segmentrouter, CE, SE

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Hardware resources of our group

• 2 x Rack 44 U
• 20 Sistems - dual xeon
• 3 GHz (single core), 4 Gb RAM, 300 Gb Hdd
• 5 Sistems dual xeon 2 GHz (quad core), 8Gb RAM,
  200 Gb HDD
• 2 Storage sistems dual xeon
• 3 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, 12,8 Tb HDD
• 2 x Switch 24 ports Gigabit
• Ups 2 x 5000 VA, 2000 VA
• Link Gigabit
• Cold sistem 36000 BTU

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Software

• Linux installed SLC4 32bit version on each
  system, the gLite 3.1 package installed
• Storage has gLite 3.0 package installed
• Local installation of the LHCb platform Gaudi,
  DaVinci, Gauss, Brunel, LCGCMT packages
• Jobs of data analysis executed, locally, using
  the DaVinci package for observing the execution
  prior to the Grid launch of the jobs
• Work in progress the instalation of ILC platform
  software Geant4, Root, GuineaPig, Fluka, Mokka
  etc. (other needed software)