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Institute for Space Sciences

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER, PLASMA AND RADIATION PHYSICS 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. Institute for Space Sciences. Main directions for R & D activity Cosmic physics

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Institute for Space Sciences

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  1. NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER, PLASMA AND RADIATION PHYSICS 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 Institute for Space Sciences D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  2. Main directions for R & D activity • Cosmic physics • - cosmic rays and particles • - space plasma and magnetometry • - astrophysics • Cosmology • General theoretical and mathematics physics • Gravitation and Microgravitation • Space technology • (engineering for space research and applications) D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  3. Personnel structure - 2002 • Total =86 • academic training:73 • Ph.D. 23 • Ph.D. students 21 1 - senior researchers 2 - scientific researchers 3 - assistant researchers (academic training) 4 - assistants 5 - services and workers Average age = 36 years D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  4. STRUCTURE Laboratories 1. Space Research Laboratory 2. Space Engineering Laboratory 3. Gravitation Laboratory Administration D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  5. 1. Space Research Laboratory Research Directions - Cosmic rays and nuclear astrophysics. - Theoretical physics and astrophysics. - Cosmology. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  6. 2. Space Engineering Laboratory • Research Directions • - Space magnetometry and plasma physics. • - On-Board data acquisition devices design • and manufacturing. • - Experimental data processing and analyzing. • - Applications of space communications. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  7. 3. Gravitation Laboratory • Research Directions • Gravitation • Microgravity • Celestial mechanics D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  8. International R & D partners (1) • Belgium • Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Bruxelles. • Czech Republic • Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Czech Academy, Prague; • Karlovo University, Prague. • France • Laboratoire de Physique des Atomes, Lasers, Molecules et Surfaces, CNRS; • Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moleculaires, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay; • Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Universite Paris Sud, Orsay; • University of Cergy Pontoise, Pontoise • Germany • Max Plank Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Berlin. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  9. International R & D partners (2) • Italy • Istituto di Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni Extraterrestri, Bologna; • Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita di Bologna; • Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita, Gran Sasso; • Laboratorio per lo Studio degli Effetti delle Radiazioni sui Materiali Speciali (SERMS), Terni. • Russia • Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna. • Turkey • Cankaya University, Ankara. • USA • EMBRY - RIDDLE Aeronautical University, Florida. • Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

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

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

  12. Space experiments D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  13. Apparata realized 1991 – 1999 • Magnetometers SG-R for space missions: 1. AKTIVNYI- satelliteMAGION 2 • 2. APEX - satellite MAGION 3 • 3. INTERBALL • - satellite MAGION 4 - INTERBALL AURORAL • - satellite MAGION 5 - INTERBALL TAIL • Onboard Computing Device ProjectISTOK - PRIRODA - space station MIR; • Prototype for data acquisition and command processing system for unmanned flying micro-objects; • Accelerometers for static and dynamic motions; • Automated Pointing System for space and airborne experiments (in cooperation with National Institute for Aero-Space Research -INCAS, Bucharest); D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  14. MAGION 2 – AKTIVNYI satellite MAGION 4 - INTERBALL TAIL satellite 500 km x 2.500 km 820 1989 315 km X 200.000 km 650 1995 D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  15. INTERBALL Project Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Rep., Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, Hungary, ESA/ESTEC AURORAL TAIL INTERBALL - AURORAL 770 x 20.000 km INTERBALL - TAIL 315 x 200.000 km Auroral Probe Tail Probe D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  16. ISTOK - 1 Project Module PRIRODA Space Station MIR Experiment ISTOK 1 Remote Sensing Complex PRIRODA Space Station MIR D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

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

  18. Future Space Missions D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

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

  20. Institute for Space Sciencesis involved in electronic design for thetracker and works to qualify the components for operating in a cosmic radiation environment by activities at: * INFN Perugia, Italy: - The testing installation under an equivalent laser flux programs for testing the apparition of the SEU (Single Event Upset) events for ADSP2187,89 microcomputers operating in a flux of radiation. - The study and the construction of the tracker. - The study of radiation hardness of the components. - The study of montage accuracy. - The detection elements characteristics. * GSI installation, Darmstadt, Germany: - The testing of components under a radiation flux with heavy ions of: Xe, Au and U. - Programs for checking the components status after the flux irradiation: MAX1281 converter, ADSP2187,89 microcomputers. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  21. Institute for Space Sciences is involved in the investigations of the implications of the CMB measurements on the structure formation models, addressing the following 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. PLANCK Mission European Space Agency D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  22. On-Ground Astrophysics Experiments MACRO – Gran Sasso, Italy NOTTE – Parang, Romania + 2.200 m - 3.500 m D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  23. Heavy ion experiments in nuclear emulsions D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  24. On-Ground Astrophysics Experiments (1) Large Hadrons Collider - CERN ALICE ALarge Ion Collider Experiment CMS Compact Muon Solenoid D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  25. Contributions of ISSin ALICE collaboration • (MoU between ISS-Bucharest and JINR-Dubna) • Common activities within ALICE off-line on the development of the simulation framework and analysis tools: • Simulation of Muon Arm Spectrometer; • Development of the simulation interface based on Geant4 toolkit; • Geometrical modeling of ALICE geometry. • Current status : • Full ALICE geometry supported. • Visualization tools working, still to be improved. • Algorithms to allow tracking implemented and currently being tested for several geometries. The speed performance of the code is 2-3 times better compared to the Geant3 modeler. • Geometry objects browsable and geometry debugging tools under development. • Input/Output and geometry database formats to be discussed. • Interface to Geant3, Geant4 and Fluka tracking to be designed. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  26. Compact Muon Solenoid - CMS experiment at CERN (1) • An experiment arround the interaction point of • Large Hadron Collider at CERN. • Physical goalsof this experiment are: • to discover the Higgs particle in the full expected mass range 0.08 TeV < MH < 1 TeV; • to see if Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a true symmetry of Nature and if it is realized at the TeV scale; • to study some aspects of the formation of the “quark-gluon plasma (QGP)” through the detection of muons and jets. • The Silicon Strip Tracker (SST)= component part of CMS for tracking of charged particles. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  27. Compact Muon Solenoid - CMS experiment at CERN (2) • Institute for Space Sciencesis involved through collaboration with CMS group from Perugia since 1997(one of the Quality Test Centres where the quality tests will be carried out) • the electrical characterization of silicon sensors that have been used in the assembly of one CMS Milestone prototype in 1997. • Participation at the electrical characterization of silicon detectors used for studies of radiation hardness under neutron irradiation. • In the present: the pre-production phase. all the silicon sensors are fully electrical characterized by the CMS Quality Test Centres to assure that the sensor production is both homogeneous and stable over the entire production run. • Starting from march 2001 - the quality control, inspection, acceptance testing and documentation of the CMS silicon sensors in Perugia test centre. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  28. On-Ground Astrophysics Experiments (2) • 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 D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  29. Personnel with academic training and scientific publications D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  30. Personnel mobility D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  31. Available data bases • Auroral magnetic events catalogue • instrument:triaxial fluxgate magnetometer(Romania) • satellite MAGION-2 AKTIVNYI(500 x 2.500 km, 820) • Complex Plasma data-base • with Max Plank Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany • satelliteMAGION-3 APEX(400 x 3.500 km, 820) • instruments: • - triaxial fluxgate magnetometer (Romania) • - high-energy spectrometer ( Slovak Republic) • - Langmuir probe (Germany) • - radiospectrometer (Poland) • 3. Row magnetic data at high altitudes • satellite MAGION-4 INTERBALL TAIL (315 x 200.000 km, 650) • 4. Row magnetic data at high altitudes • satellite MAGION-5 INTERBALL AURORAL (770 x 20.000 km, 650) D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  32. MAGION 4 - INTERBALL TAIL satellite Magnetic field, medium energy particles, low-energy particles, and current in plasma (April 12, 1997) ISS Slovakia Germany Poland D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  33. Main projects D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  34. National Research and • Development Programmes • National Programme Horizon 2000 • Technologies in Aeronautics and Space - AEROSPATIAL • Fundamental Researches - CERES • Research and Innovation for the Economy –RELANSIN D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  35. Technologies in Aeronautics and Space • - AEROSPATIAL – • Theoretical models for the local and global processes in intense fields. • Tracker for space experiment AMS • (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer). • Background Cosmic Radiation - Planck mission. • Space plasma physics by satellite data. • Study of the body motion with potential perturbations – circumterrestrial orbits. • Models and mechanisms of gravitational waves production and detection. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  36. Technologies in Aeronautics and Space • - AEROSPATIAL – • NOTTE2 – Search for signals of the solar neutrino disintegration. • Studies for magnetically fluids in variable magnetic fields. • Study of the space debris in circumterrestrial medium. • Technology & Science Park for aero-space technologies. • Telemedicine Demonstrative Pilot with Diagnostic, Clinic and Educational Applications. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  37. Telemedicine -Space Technologies Spin-off • is a highly skill interdependent field: • medicine, education, imaging, remote control, information and communication technologies, etc. • The partnership for the implementation of the Telemedicine Pilot Project • FUNDENI Clinical Institute, • Hepatic Transplant Clinic, • Medical Imaging Clinic; • Institute for Space Science; • InterNET srl private company. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  38. Medical units abroad Medical units in Romania Internet barebone Fundeni The Fundeni Telemedicine Pilot Links D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  39. Fundamental Researches • - CERES – • Cosmic radiation – origin, composition and interactions. • Study of the nuclear matter in extreme conditions of energy density by relativistic heavy ions. • Fundamental physical processes in space plasma. • Researches of elementary particles astrophysics for cosmology. D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  40. Research and Innovation for Economy - RELANSIN – Centre of Excellence “Centre for Experimental and Theoretical Astrophysics and Applications” D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

  41. 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 D.Hasegan Institute for Space Sciences

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