The Wigner Research Centre

for PhysicsShort introduction

Péter Lévai, director general

November 2017

http://wigner.mta.hu

Wigner Research Centre for Physics

of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Institute for Particle and Institute for Solid State

and Nuclear Physics Physics and OpticsParticle and nuclear physics Solid state physics, crystals

Plasma physics, Brain research Laserphysics, optics

Space science and technology Neutronphysics, plasmaphysics

Information technology Complex system, fluids

KFKICentral

Research

Institute

for

Physics

KFKI RMKIRes. Inst. for Particle

and Nuclear Phys.

SZFKIRes. Inst. for Solid

State Physics &Optics

KFKI AEKIRes. Inst. for Atomic

Energy

IKI Res. Inst.for Isotops

WIGNER Research

Centre for Physics

Centre for Energy

Research

1952 (1972) 1992 2012 (14)

History of WIGNER RCP (5y)

Successor of KFKI, Budapest (65y)Eugene Paul

Wigner

1902 – 1995

MFA Res. Inst. for Technical Physics

and Material Sciences

WIGNER Research Centre

for Physics, HAS

By October 2017:

160 researcher[PhD] (7 FIKU)

51 young res. (19 FIKU)

157 technical +

administ. staff____________________________________________________________________

368 employees + 21 Prof. Emer.

2016 Budget: 16.5M€ 9 % of HAS (4100)

<30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 év

Res. Prof.

Res. Advisor

Sen. Res.Fellow

Res. Fellow

Res. Assist.

PhD. Stud.

Researchers age distribution – 1 October 2017

Institutes of Basic Research

Research Groups

Table top exp.

National Laboratory

Long term commitments

International large scale RIs

Education

Training center

Knowledge transfer

Applications in industry

Innovation center

Technology transfer

The missions of the MTA Wigner RCP

Annual reports: the summary of our yearly activities

https://wigner.mta.hu/en/yearbook

Circumstances in Innovation:

Partners in Research and R&D Activities in Hungary (2016)

Academy Network:

15 research centres and

research institutes of

the Hungarian Academy

of Sciences (MTA)

Education Network:

15 Universities

(National Excellence centres)

15 Colleges

Public & Private Network:

Public and private

research, R&D,

innovation centers

and enterprises

Industry:

Industrial excellence

S3 Strategic partners

Industr. innovation centers

EU and HU strategy: enhanced financing of R & D & I projects

Recent activities are driven by HORIZON 2020 preferencies:

- Excellent Research

- Excellent Industry

- Well-being of the tax payers

Hungarian Smart Specialization Strategy (S3):

(NIH/NRDIO Report, 4 November 2014)

- Healthy Society and Well-being

- Advanced technologies in the vehicle and other machine industries

- Clean and renewable energies

- Sustainable Environment

- Healthy Local Foods

- Agriculture Innovations

- Smart Technologies

Fine-tuning the strategy and operation of (Fundamental) Research Institutes

Medium-scale Scientific Enterprise with innovative management

Example: Wigner RCP (with 150 experts)

Medium-scale Scientific Enterprise:

Complex structure and complicated connection system with the demand of

--- trustworthy operation for all aspects (research, R&D, innovation)

--- reliable management activity for scientists and research & innovation partners

--- optimal conditions for research, R&D and innovation

--- financial stability (trustful and lawful)

--- sustainable and innovation-friendly operation

--- transparent activities and lawful connections

--- flexibility in all fields

--- generating WIN-WIN situations with strategic and innovation partners

--- profitable activities (at least in long term)

secure extra financial and infrastructure resources for fundamental research

renew human resources and enhance resupply of knowledge and intelligence

Medium-scale Scientific Enterprise:

Candidates for innovative results in the new setup:

--- HEP detectors for earth science applications (e.g. muontomograph)

--- neutron detectors for investigations in material science

--- Low-E accelerators and neutron sources for cultural and natural heritage

--- ultrashort laser impulses for molecules in pharmaceutical application

--- laser applications for air pollutions (daily routine or accidents)

--- laser applications for air spray in medical practice (lung, respiration)

--- semiconductor nanoparticles for solar cells and bioimaging (silicon carbide)

--- ferroelectric liquid crystal shutter and display

--- HEP big data methods for medical use (e.g. genomics)

application oriented (programed) R&D and I activities support

fundamental research activities and resupply knowledge and intelligence

Flagship projects on Large Scale Research Infrastructures: 1. High Energy Physics

2. Fusion Energy Research (EURATOM, F4E) [Plasmadiagnostics]

MAST, Culham EAST, Hefei KSTAR, South Korea ITER, Chadarache

3. Space Science & Technology

Comet Halley: Vega 1/2 (1986) Saturn&Titan: Cassini (2004-17) Earth: CLUSTER Mission (2001-14)

Rosetta – Philae probe (2004-17) Mercury: BepiColombo (2014) ISS: Plasma Wave Complex (2011)

Venus Express (2006)

Saturn’s

Magnetosphere

CASSINI SATURN

ESA BNP, BIC; NASA

2014: The Rosetta probe approached the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The PHILEA-unit landed on the Comet and first data were transmitted.

HU Group (Wigner RCP, ER, BME) prepared the DAQ of PHILEA.

EGO VIRGO: Cascina (Pisa, Italy)

4. The nature of gravitation

Gravitation Waves – VIRGO Collaboration (2005-)

LIGO: Hanford (USA) Livingston (USA)

LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration (2007):

integrated common data analysis

GW-150914: 50 Million CPU-hour

ELTE-ATOMKI-Szeged and WIGNER RCP partic

Contribution from Wigner RCP:

- Theoretical studies

- Data analysis

- IT: VIRGO Cluster in the Wigner Cloud

- MATRA Gravitation and Seizmology

Laboratory, Gyöngyösoroszi

(Test period started: 25 Febr. 2016)

5. Budapest Neutron Center (BNC) [Experience in infrastructure management]

GINA polarized neutron

reflectometer

BUDAPEST Reactor (10 MW)

Cold Neutron Laboratory

MTEST diffractometer

5. Laser Physics and Quantum Optics [femtosecond lasers → attosecond ]

Szeged2017/05/23

InaugurationPrag, Bucharest

Plan: CERN - PDPWAProton Driven

Plasma Wave

Accelerator research

Wigner Laser Lab.

Scientific & Financial Management

ScientificInstitute1

ResearchGroups

ScientificInstitute2

Research Groups

Scientific& AdminSupports

Scientific LaboratoriesTechnology

TransferOffice

MTA WIGNER RC for Physics

MTA

Locations

Univ.

Locations

MTA and ForeignResearch Institutes

University Research Dept. & Groups

Industrial Park Locations

Industrial ConnectionsStrategy & Innovative Partners

TechnologyTransfer & KnowledgeCenter:

BIC: Business Incubation

Centers[ESA BIC,

CERN BIC]

Outreachactivities,

media

Educationreeducation

Special fields and competences:

1. CERN: DAQ and GEM-detectors

2. ELI: attosecond laser pulses and plasma acceleration

3. Neutron diagnostics

4. Applied material science

5. Enviromental physics

CERN LHC: the largest machine on Earth

Hungary is full member of CERN from 1992 (23 years)

~1 % Hungarian „ownership”

L3

OPAL

NA49

ASACUSA

ALICE

CMS

ATLAS

TOTEM

50

-15

0 m

8.6 km

Mission: Studying

the primordial matter

of the Universe QGP

Tool: heavy ion collisions

Visualization of Pb+Pb collisions (ALICE TPC and ITS).

100 MB digital camera fast data collection and transfer (DAQ)

ALICE: Hungarian contribution (2006/2015)

GDC GDCGDCGDC

DAQ architectureCTP

LTU

TTC

FERO FERO

LTU

TTC

FERO FERO

LDCLDC

BUSY BUSY

Rare/All

Event

Fragment

Sub-event

Event

File

Storage Network

TDS

PDS

L0, L1a, L2

L0, L1a, L2

262 DDLs

EDM

LDCLoad Bal. LDC LDC

HLT Farm

FEPFEP

DDL

H-RORC

10 DDLs

10 D-RORC

10 HLT LDC

123 DDLs

TDS

DS DS

Event Building Network

329 D-RORC

175 Detector LDC

50 GDC

25 TDS5 DSS

R&D&I activity:

25 GB/s

2.50 GB/s

1.25 GB/s

Pb-Pb beam

- Central 20 Hz 86.0 MB

- MB 20 Hz 20.0 MB

- Dimuon 1600 Hz 0.5 MB

- Dielectron 200 Hz 9.0 MB

pp beam

MB 100 Hz 2.5 MB

Physics requirements

Running modes

A: DAQ

B: DAQ+HLT Analysis

C: DAQ+HLT Trigger

ALICE Detector Data Link

WIGNER Datacenter -- MTA WIGNER RCP

From 1 January 2013: hosting CERN TIER-0 1300 km 2 x 100 Gbit/s ( 3 x 100 Gbit/s)

High reliability data transfer, data handling, data mining

Mission: Knowledge center, know-how transfer

Big Data Day, GPU - Multicore Workshop, (2011-)

HEPTECH AIME ICT (2015, 2018)

Wigner Could (1000+ core), MTA Cloud (1000+ core)

+ GPUminisuper comp. + 2 PB HD

Detector physics research: modern microstructure detectors

GEM foil

Measurement of position

dependent sensitivity!

GEM detector developments

Activities for

the CERN ALICE TPC upgrade project

and detector physics research

Application: tomographic imaging with cosmic muons

Less material = More particles

All Colors of Physics Bus

National Physics RoadShow

Inauguration: April 2014

Rolf Heuer CERN DG

OUTREACH

for HEP physics

ELI: Extreme Light Infrastructure-

Three pillars, three locations

ELI: Extreme Light Infrastructure-Tasks at each facility

ELI-BeamlinesIn Dolni Brezhany, near Prague, Czech Republic, theELI-Beamlines facility will mainly focus on thedevelopment of short-pulse secondary sources ofradiation and particles, and on their multidisciplinaryapplications in molecular, biomedical and materialsciences, physics of dense plasmas and particleacceleration, warm dense matter, laboratoryastrophysics.

ELI-Nuclear Physics Facility

In Magurele, Romania, the ELI Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility will focus on laser-based nuclear physics.

ELI -ALPS Hungary

Atto-second Light

Pulse Source:

Generation of 200 PW

peak intensity pulses of

sub-femtosecond and

atto-second durations in

extreme -ultraviolet and

X-ray regions.

ELI-ALPS is expected to

be partially available in

2017, while it will become

fully operational for user-

based research in 2018-

19.

ELI-ALPS today

Attosecond tools for chemistry, biology and nanoscience

A wide range of ultrashort light sources with unique parameters

Main research and application areas of ELI-ALPS

Valence electron scienceBased on the extreme ultraviolet and the X-ray sources provided by ELI-ALPS, new research areas will open in the fields of atomic and molecular dynamics, studying valence electrons responsible for the behavior of chemical reactions.

Core electron scienceUsing the high photon-energy, high brightness extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray source core electrons will become accessible. The unique combination of light sources offered by ELI-ALPS, will open a unique opportunity to follow the dynamics of inner shell electrons on the atto-second time scale.

4D imagingAtoms, molecules, crystals and nanostructures all consist of nuclei and electrons. The 3D arrays of these particles define the structure and static/equilibrium characteristics of the material. If the system is excited, the nature and time evolution of the response may be recorded in space and time (4D).

The secondary light sources produced at the ELI-ALPS infrastructure will nourish the development of 4D imaging and will allow the visualization of electron motion with attosecond temporal and atomic spatial resolution.

Relativistic interactionsInteractions occurring between high intensity laser pulses (TW, PW) and matter evolve on the atomic (femto-second, atto-second) time scale. The investigation of these processes requires a high intensity triggering laser pulse together with a synchronized “probing” attosecond pulse. Precisely this combination is expected from the ELI infrastructure in Szeged, allowing for example studies of laser particle-acceleration, nonlinear quantum electrodynamics.

Biological, medical and Industrial applicationsELI-ALPS will produce high-brightness, high repetition rate, extremely short laser-based X-ray pulses. Facility features will open new research fields, and make new approaches feasible. Possible application areas include biomedical sciences, chemistry, climate research, energy, development of new materials, semiconductors, optoelectronics, and many more.

Today maximum values of electric field gradients achievable in RF or microwave-based accelerators are about 100 MV/m

Plasma can sustain up to

three orders of magnitude

higher gradients! That

means much shorter linear

colliders!

Present and planned particle accelerators at CERN

1000- times higher electric field gradients are achievable in plasma!

Plasma density perturbations in the field of a laser pulse

Particle acceleration in ultrahomogen plasma

CERN AWAKE project (Wigner group)

40

AWAKE experiment

dump

~1100m

SPS

LHC

protons

Laser induced ultrahomogen Rubidium plasmatest facility at Wigner RCP

ELI-project proposal

Monitoring plasma formation: Detector element of the monitoring system

Experimental arrangement

AWAKE experiment at CERN: Run-1 and Run-2 phases

Run-1 phase:

Run-2 phase:

General manager: Zhang Yuanhui, PhD& People’s Government of ShenzhenMunicipality

Shenzhen Solar Laboratory Ltd.

Central European Center for Photovoltaic Research Ltd.

Leader of the research-innovation: Adam Gali, PhD, DSc

Estimated budget: 5M Euro(proposal under financial evaluation phase)

REVOLUTIONARY 3RD GENERATION SOLAR PANEL – PROJECT (5 YEARS)

semiconductornanocrystals

efficientsolar cells

Example for international R&D&I project: solar energy + material science + neutrons

China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) China Advanced Research Reactor (CARR) CAEP INPC Mianyang, Sechuan

(Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry of the China Academy of Engineering Physics)

MTA Wigner RCP, Department ofNeutron Spectroscopy

Mirrotron Ltd. , Budapest

Manufactured, installed, commissioned:TPNR reflectometer;

SANS small angle scattering spectrometer;

CTAS triple axis spectrometer;

RSND residual stress diffractometer

NOVEL INSTRUMENTS IN NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY

innovativenanomaterials

Extensive study ofthe inner structurewith neutronspectrometers

Completed instruments at Mian Yang

Sample environment Beam tailoring collimation system

SANS – small angle neutron scattering instrument

Installed reflectometer Time structure defining chopper

system

TPNR – time-of-flight polarized neutron reflectometer

Enviromental investigations: mobile laboratory

Test measurements in city

Test measurements

in an airport :

exploring main sources

of different cathegories

of pollutions

(fast reaction network)

We are looking forward

for scientific challenges

of the near and far away future !

We are continuously exploring

the opportunities

in S&T collaborations !