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Darmstadt in the beginning of 2013. It is planned that a small group from GSI will be invited
by MSL to spend some months in Stockholm during the autumn 2012 to participate in the
final disassembly and packing of the CRYRING in order to gain experience about the configuration
of CRYRING before the disassembly. This experience would help considerably for an
optimal reassembly of the ring at GSI. It should be remarked that the fact that the CRYRING
is available intact and properly modified according to the requirements defined by the FLAIR
collaboration has been accomplished by a large grant from the Swedish Research Council and by
generous support from Stockholm University, both acknowledging the high scientific potential
of the future use of the CRYRING at GSI/FAIR. The leader of the MSL team is the accelerator
physicist Anders Källberg, who through the years has been responsible for the operation of the
CRYRING at MSL. In addition to the CRYRING hardware described in the TDR, Stockholm
University has recently offered an advanced internal gas target system for CRYRING experiments
to be delivered with a ring. This opens new scientific opportunities which have attracted
a substantial interest from physicists planning future experiments at CRYRING@ESR. After
the transportation of CRYRING to Darmstadt, there are hitherto no formal commitments for
a Swedish participation in its installation at the ESR. However Stockholm University offers
that two experienced accelerator physicists, a highly qualified engineer, expert on the CRY-
RING Control System and a mechanical engineer will spend up to in total two person-years
at GSI/FAIR. Dependent on the success of applications of further financial support from the
Swedish Research Council (application sent to the Council for Research Infrastructures in April
2012 by the board of SFAIR, the “umbrella organization” of Swedish scientists aiming for using
FAIR) and the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (see below), Swedish presence in the
installation and commissioning work might be increased.
7.6 Swedish Participation in Experiments at FAIR: CRYRING@ESR
The new exciting scientific opportunities that can be offered soon with an early installation
of the CRYRING@ESR have stimulated Swedish scientists to plan for experiments at the new
facility. A team of Atomic Physicists from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg and
Stockholm University, as well as Nuclear Physicists from Chalmers and Lund University and
Accelerator Physicists from Stockholm University and ESS, Lund are preparing an application
to the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation for travel costs and stationing of personnel for
extended periods of time at GSI/FAIR. Scientific issues that are planned to be addressed are
within the areas: Atomic-ion collisions, Ion-photon collisions and nuclear and nuclear astrophysics
experiments. An important part of the application is also positions for two postdoctoral
researchers, who should work on
1. starting up research development on experiments and detectors with a focus on nuclear
reactions and nuclear astrophysics and
2. ion-optical problems, in particular optimization of the transmission of radioactive beams
into the ESR.
The main applicant, PI, for the application to the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation is
Andreas Heinz, nuclear physicist at Chalmers University of Technology.