| Scientific Committee Paper | |
| Report number | CERN-SPSC-2019-033 ; SPSC-P-361 |
| Title | PUMA: antiprotons and radioactive nuclei |
| Project Manager/Technical Coordinator | Obertelli, Alexandre |
| Author(s) | Aumann, T (TU Darmstadt) ; Bartmann, W (CERN) ; Bouvard, A (CERN) ; Boine-Frankenheim, O (TU Darmstadt) ; Broche, A (CERN) ; Butin, F (CERN) ; Calvet, D (CEA) ; Carbonell, J (IPN Orsay) ; Chiggiato, P (CERN) ; De Gersem, H (TU Darmstadt) Mostrar todos os 48 autores |
| Corporate author(s) | CERN. Geneva. SPS and PS Experiments Committee ; SPSC |
| Series | (Proposal) |
| Submitted by | aobertelli@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de on 29 Sep 2019 |
| Subject category | Detectors and Experimental Techniques |
| Abstract | Antiprotons as a probe to study short-lived isotopes remain unexploited despite past pioneering works with stable nuclei. In particular, 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. Such studies with short-lived nuclei and low-energy antiprotons are the first motivation of the proposed antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation (PUMA) experiment. Today, no facility provides a collider of low-energy radioactive ions and low-energy antiprotons: PUMA aims at transporting one billion antiprotons from CERN/ELENA to CERN/ISOLDE to perform the capture of low-energy antiprotons by short-lived nuclei, and probe in this way the so-far unexplored isospin composition of the nuclear-radial-density tail of radioactive nuclei. |
Email contact(s) : aobertelli@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de ; francois.butin@cern.ch
Record created 2019-09-29, last modified 2019-09-30
