1. Head: Alfred Švarc, Ph.D.

2. Theory Particle accelerator Experiment 1960

3. Analytical methods Experiment Radioactive isotopes 1970 Particle accelerators Theory

4. Analytical methods Experiment Radioactive isotopes 1980 Particle accelerators Theory

5. Analytical methods Experiment Radioactive isotopes 1990 Particle accelerators Theory

6. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics 2008 Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Analytical methods Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I

7. Research activities Research activities Higgs search Supersymmetric particle search Quark gluon plasma properties proton proton, proton lead reaction mechanisms Experimental physics at LHC energies

8. Contracts/collaborations Contracts/collaborations Croatian Ministry of Science Switzerland- CERN NA49 (Large acceptance hadron detector) ALICE (A large ion collider experiment) CMS (Compact muon solenoid) Mikrotrend (Croatia) Projects and collaborations

9. Research activities Research activities in-medium dependence of hadron masses in Standard model understanding and determination of symmetry violation goal: CP and C violation HADRONIC PHYSICS AND QCD

10. Croatian Ministry of Science International Collaboration RBI -Mami International Collaboration RBI – University of Viginia on PIBETA experiment Projects and collaborations

11. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Analytical methods Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I II

12. Research activities Research activities Heavy-Ion Physics Low energies Properties of nuclear surface multi-nucleon transfer reaction exotic structures nuclear rainbow Reaction mechanism fusion-(quasi)fission & subbarrier fusion from quasi-elastic to deep inelastic Nuclear matter under extreme condition nuclear clusters and molecules structure towards neutron drip line 10Be

13. Intermediate energies, Fermi energy Nuclear matter properties In-medium effects Binary dissipative collisions interplay of the nuclear mean field and residual n-n collisions Intermediate energies, elementary collisions Proton virtual bremsstrahlung and g-g coincidences Pion-induced fusion Research activities (cnt.) Research activities (cnt.) Configuration space Impulse space pre-scissionpost-scission

14. Relativistic energies, heavy-ion reactions Mass asymmetric systems ordered motion of nucleons better participant / spectator resolution Isospin dependence production of charged pions entropy production Strange meson production strange mesons at threshold Relativistic energies, pion reactions Strange meson production Ultrarelativistic energies (GSI FAIR project) Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) Research activities (cnt.) Research activities (cnt.)

15. Contracts / collaborations Contracts / collaborations Croatian Ministry of Science Germany (Darmstadt - GSI, Berlin) France (Strasbourg, Nantes, Caen - GANIL) Italy (LNL Legnaro, LNS Catania, Universita di Padova and Torino) CRC Louvain-la-Neuve GB – University of Birmingham The Netherlands (Groningen - KVI) FP6 I3 EURONS and HADRON PHYSICS FP7 project – Zagreb - Catania – Birmingham coordination and support actions – REGPOT07 Projects and collaborations

16. Responsibilities in collaborations Responsibilities in collaborations Projects and collaborations Spokesperson of experiments in Legnaro – LNL Catania – LNS CRC Louvain-la-Neuve IReS Strasbourg ANU Canberra Co-spokesperson of an experiment in Groningen – KVI Responsibility for Plastic Wall of FOPI detector in GSI, Darmstadt Responsibility for PRISMA spectrometer focal plane – LNL Legnaro

17. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Analytical methods Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I II III

18. EXPERIMENT: -Neutrino oscillations ( CERN - Gran Sasso) OPERA - Solar axions ( CERN, RBI ) CAST - Large extra dimensions ( RBI ) THEORY: - Cosmology - Large extra dimensions Massive Neutrinos and Astroparticles: From particle physics to cosmology From particle physics to cosmology

19. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Analytical methods Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I II III

20. Theory – attached to experiments a. a.Hadron Spectroscopy b. b.Cosmology

21. Hadron spectroscopy (Baryon resonances ) Research activities: establishing a link between experiment and theory

22. (i) neutrino dark energy We have shown that a simple coupled system of a variable vacuum term and a gas of relic neutrinos may account not only for a right amount of dark energy at present, but also for a near coincidence between the matter and dark-energy densities to hold over a significant portion of the history of the universe [R. Horvat, JCAP 0601 (2006)015]. (ii) holographic dark energy (iii) renormalization-group running cosmology Cosmology Large extra dimensions

23. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Analytical methods Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I II III IV

24. Accelerator centre Accelerator centre Accelerator centre (the largest experimental facility in Croatia) Alphatross Ion source Sputtering Ion source Duoplasmatron Ion source Nuclear microprobe H.R. PIXE Nuclear reactions H.R. ERDA PIXE RBS 6.0 MV EN Tandem Van de Graaff 1.0 MV Tandetron External beam

25. Croatian Ministry of Science Core project, information technology projects IAEA Technical cooperation projects (aprox. 0.5 MEu) EU INCO FP6 Project – Upgrade of accelerator facility (aprox 0.25 MEu) Collaborations with Universita di Torino, ATOMKI Debrecen, IJS Ljubljana,... Projects and collaborations

26. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I II III V IV

27. 1.Gas proportional counter technique (preparation of CH 4 ) 2.Liquid scintillation technique 2.Liquid scintillation technique (benzene preparation method and CO 2 absorption method) 3.Acceleration mass spectroscopy (AMS) technique Laboratory for Measurements of Low-level Radioactivity Measurements of cosmogenic isotopes 3 H and 14 C

28. Experiment intermediate energy particle physics Tandem Van de Graaf Particle accelerators Analytical methods Theory Neutron generator nuclear physics of light nuclei heavy-ion physics electro-weak interactions; astroparticles high energy particle physics Radioactive isotopes I II III V IV VI

29. Our main results

30. Publications 2002 – 2006 Total: 262 in CC Journals (28 scientists + 18 assistants and novices)

31. Phys. Rev. Lett: 14

32. Phys. Lett B: 13

33. Phys. Rev. C: 39

34. Phys. Rev. D: 6

35. Nucl. Phys. A,B: 37

36. Nucl. Inst. Meth. A,B: 39

37. Journ. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.: 10

38. Head: Alfred Švarc, Ph.D.