NUSTAR Week 2013

11.10.2013 | 

The NUSTAR Collaboration met in Helsinki, Finland, from October 7-11 to hold the NUSTAR Week 2013. This was the fifth meeting in a series, taking place before in Dubna (2009), Lund (2010), Bucharest (2011), and Kolkata (2012), this time hosted by the Helsinki Institute of Physics at the Helsinki University.

The aim of the NUSTAR Week meeting is to discuss within the collaboration research and development issues, hold working group meetings of the NUSTAR projects, present new technical results, plan common activities, and discuss perspective instrumentation ideas. The meeting comprised reports from sub-collaborations and common working groups, discussions on technical designs and plenary physics presentations.

More than 80 members of the FAIR scientific collaboration attended the NUSTAR Week 2013 and made it a very lively meeting. This time the focus was put on the Finnish contributions to NUSTAR, especially to work packages related to the Super-FRS. In addition, the HISPEC/DESPEC collaboration discussed the present status of experimental components and upcoming beam times and tests at GSI.