1. PUMA, antiProton unstable matter annihilation
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Aumann, T., Bartmann, W., Boine-Frankenheim, O., Bouvard, A., Broche, A., Butin, F., Calvet, D., Carbonell, J., Chiggiato, P., de Gersem, H., de Oliveira, R., Dobers, T., Ehm, F., Somoza, J.Ferreira, Fischer, J., Fraser, M., Friedrich, E., Frotscher, A., Gomez-Ramos, M., Grenard, J.L., Hobl, A., Hupin, G., Husson, A., Indelicato, P., Johnston, K., Klink, C., Kubota, Y., Lazauskas, R., Malbrunot-Ettenauer, S., Marsic, N., O Müller, W.F., Naimi, S., Nakatsuka, N., Necca, R., Neidherr, D., Neyens, G., Obertelli, A., Ono, Y., Pasinelli, S., Paul, N., Pollacco, E.C., Rossi, D., Scheit, H., Schlaich, M., Schmidt, A., Schweikhard, L., Seki, R., Sels, S., Siesling, E., Uesaka, T., Vilén, M., Wada, M., Wienholtz, F., Wycech, S., Zacarias, S., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB [Collège de France]), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and PUMA
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CERN Lab ,experimental methods ,Nuclear Theory ,p: density ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,sensitivity ,annihilation ,nuclear physics ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Physics - Experiment ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det] ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,nucleus: density ,Detectors and Experimental Techniques ,nucleus: surface ,Nuclear Experiment ,activity report - Abstract
International audience; PUMA, antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation, is a nuclear-physics experiment at CERN aiming at probing the surface properties of stable and rare isotopes by use of low-energy antiprotons. Low-energy antiprotons offer a very unique sensitivity to the neutron and proton densities at the annihilation site, i.e. in the tail of the nuclear density. Today, no facility provides a collider of low-energy radioactive ions and low-energy antiprotons: while not being a collider experiment, PUMA aims at transporting one billion antiprotons from ELENA, the Extra-Low-ENergy Antiproton ring, to ISOLDE, the rare-isotope beam facility of CERN. PUMA will enable the capture of low-energy antiprotons by short-lived nuclei and the measurement of the emitted radiations. In this way, PUMA will give access to the so-far largely unexplored isospin composition of the nuclear-radial-density tail of radioactive nuclei. The motivations, concept and current status of the PUMA experiment are presented.
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- 2022
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