PUMA: a portable trap project for antiprotons and short-lived nuclei

by Dr Noritsugu Nakatsuka (TU Darmstadt)

Tuesday 10 Jul 2018, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Rome

501 (Dip.to di Fisica Univ. di Genova)

Antiprotons as probe for nuclear studies with short-lived isotopes remain unexploited despite past pioneer works at CERN/LEAR and Brookhaven. Antiprotons offer a very unique sensitivity, as a probe, to the ratio of neutron and proton densities at annihilation site, i.e. in the density tail of the nucleus. The project officially started on January 1st, 2018. Its motivations, concept will be presented, as well as its technical challenges and status.

Slides PUMA_Genoa.pdf