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Charles University in PragueFaculty of Mathematics and Physics

Nuclear Physics InstituteNuclear Physics InstituteCzech Academy of Sciences, ŘežCzech Academy of Sciences, Řež

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Floods in Czech Republic - what happened to

Jan Rak

(PHENIX at RHIC, BNL)

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Iowa State [email protected]

Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsEducates students in a wide variety of directions which correspond to

individual departments and their scientific interests:

Mathematics and Informatics:

Algebra - Computational Mathematics - Didactics in Mathematics -Mathematical Analysis - Probability and Mathematical Statistics - Applied Mathematics - Mathematical Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics - Numerical Mathematics - Software Engineering - Theoretical Computer Science - Software and of Computer Science Education; Institute of Mathematics, Inst. of Formal and Applied Linguistic

Physics:

Physics Education - Chemical Physics and Optics - General Physics Teaching - Metal Physics - Electronic Structures - Electronics and Vacuum Physics - Low Temperature Physics - Polymer Physics - Geophysics - Meteorology and Environmental Protection - Theoretical Physics; Astronomy Institute, Inst. of Particle and Nuclear Physics

Karlov Karlín

Trója

Malá Strana

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

The professional profile of the Faculty could be found on web:

http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/veda/profil/

Departments with their home pages are listed on

http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/fakulta/struktura/sekcef.htm


Trója campus was a place of many conferences, schools and workshops - here are participants of the school Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics ´99, organized in collaboration with Nuclear Physics Institute


Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physicsparticipates within the framework of Center for Particle Physics (http://www-hep2.fzu.cz/Centrum/eng/index.html) together with the Institute of Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences in experiments ATLAS at CERN (there is a strong collaboration with US ATLAS on Tilecal project and on heavy-ion program for ATLAS), H1 at DESY, D0 at Fermilab and in several other experiments.

There is also a broad international collaboration in the area of theoretical nuclear and particle physics (deep inelastic scattering, electroweak interactions, chiral perturbation theory, quantum field theory, the structure of complex nuclei and the mechanism of nuclear reactions, quantum chaos, finite fermionic systems, properties of metal clusters and quantum dots are the topics of study at IPNP). In recent years, a series of conferences and summer schools on some of these topics were (co)organized by IPNP.

The Departments and Institutes work in wide international collaborations, as for example


The main activities cover scientific research in nuclear physics (both theoretical and experimental) and in related fields (dosimetry of ionizing radiation, accelerator techniques, solid state physics, material research).

Further activities are connected with applying the methods of nuclear physics in interdisciplinary areas of research and development, such as biology, environmental sciences and medicine. The institute performs research and development of new radiopharmaceuticals and provides its radiopharmaceutical production to the medicine facilities. The institute develops the new methods of production of radionuclides and provides irradiation services on various materials.


The basic experimental facility is the cyclotron U-120 M operating with charged particles, protons and light ions, up to energy of 36 MeV (protons). The cyclotron is used both for nuclear physics experiments and radionuclide productions.

Electrostatic Van de Graaff accelerator yielding an ion beam of energy of 2.5 MeV is employed mainly in nuclear analytical methods. The beams of thermal neutrons produced by nuclear reactor LWR-15 of the Nuclear Research Institute, p.l.c., are used in reseach and development of solid state physics and material sciences.

Institute consists of the following departments, their detailed activities can be found on the institute web pages:

Theoretical Physics - Nuclear Spectroscopy - Nuclear Reactions - Neutron Physics - Radiation Dosimetry - Radiopharmaceuticals


NPI groups are involved in many international collaborations. They take part in the experiment STAR at RHIC. Participation in the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider facility, now being constructed at CERN, should certainly be also mentioned. This experiment, which will start after 2005, stands at the frontier in the exploration of properties of matter. Other collaborations in the heavy-ion physics with institutions in Europe (GSI, GANIL, and JINR Dubna) contribute significantly to the scientific profile of NPI, as well.

On the other hand, the domestic site at Řež has to provide enough opportunities for research which, as the case might be, proves to be attractive for foreign groups. In particular, the set of apparatuses around light water reactor LWR-15 and abilities of members of the Department of Neutron Physics are requisites for top investigations in the neutron optics, solid state physics, and material research.


Interesting results have been obtained at the electrostatic electron spectrometer ESA 12 on possible admixtures of heavy neutrinos in beta spectra. Beams of d and 3He accelerated by the U-120M cyclotron have been used in the study of nuclear reactions important from the astrophysical point of view.

Wide spectrum of topics is covered by the Department of Theoretical Physics with respectable results.

In August 2002 ...

… heavy rains over Southern Bohemia …

… caused the flood exceeding all historical records

Physics campus TrójaPhysics campus Trója

Mathematics at KarlínMathematics at Karlín

To ŘežTo Řež

Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsTrója campus under water


The mathematical library in Karlín building was heavily damaged ...

Flood, August 14, 2002

NPI, main street, 15.8.2002, 8.00

Nuclear Spectroscopy building, 15.8.2002, 8.00

Basement of the cyclotron accelerator building, 15.8.2002, 8.00

Library


The Damage

•Mathematics building in Karlin:14 Mkč (0,5 M$ ) infrastructure

and 56 Mkč (1,9 M$ ) in loss of books and periodicals

•Physics campus in Trója:38 MKč (1,3 M$ ) infrastructure

and 35 MKč (1,2 M$ ) direct damage on experimentalequipment and library.


The Damage continuedA non-negligible part of the damage in Troja campus was the damage in the library:

saved lost

Monographs (#) 138 39

Journals (tittles) 0 4

Textbooks (#) 3 276 1 383

Lecture notes (ks) 2 904 2 076

It will be hardly possible to restore completely the state before the flood, many texbooks should be replaced by equivalents. About 0.1M$ is needed.


The Damage continuedThe most seriously wounded department was the Department of Low Temperature PhysicsIts Laboratory of NMR in magnetic materials needs about 2.3 M$ for repairs and replacement of damaged parts,the Cryogenic section supplying LN2 and LHe to many institutions in Prague needs 0.47 M$ for restoration,the Laboratory of the high resolution NMR in liquids needs 0.8 M$ for repairs,the Laboratory of cryogenic turbulence needs 0.9 M$, the Laboratory of Mössbauer spectroscopy needs 1 M$.

Efforts to get necessary funding for repairs and replacement already started.


The Restorationstarted with strong participation of the staff and students immediately after the water went away. But it took more than a month to restore the electricity supply to the campus and almost two monthsto fully restore the computer network services.


The RestorationThe costs of restoration will be partly covered by The Ministry of Education:• 0.83 M$ to restore the basic functionality of Trója campus• 0.20 M$ to restore the basic functionality of Karlín building• 0.82 M$ to restore the low temperature laboratories, labs

of magnetic studies and the infrastructure

Further funds (about 1.2 M$) are required from the Charles University to renew the helium liquifier, laboratory of the high-resolution NMR, laboratory of NMR in magnetic materials, the SQUID magnetometer and the dissolving refrigerator 3He-4He with magnet.


The Restoration is well on the way ...http://www.mff.cuni.cz/toISO-8859-2.en/vnitro/povoden/

But any help is appreciated ...,please contact [email protected]

Trója entrance hall, now


The Damage

Administration buildingBasement floor was flooded up to 1.3 m ...Some dosimetric equipment was wrecked here and in all other buildings.

R&D radiopharmaceutical laboratorywas almost completely destroyed

Nuclear Spectroscopy buildingBasement floor with cloakrooms and various storage places was flooded up to 2,9 m. Two vacuum pumps have been destroyed.


The Damage continued

Cyclotron buildingBasement floor with substantial technical basis of the cyclotron was flooded up to 1,5 m. The high voltage sources, sources for the beam lines, vacuum system, and cooling water unit have been inundated.

PET laboratoryThis clean laboratory with the box for PET production including production machine was flooded up to 1.5 m.


The Damage continuedLibrary

The library serves for the whole Řež research area, also for students and scientists from Prague universities. The Library was surely the best Czech library on nuclear science with about 70.000 issues on nuclear and subnuclear physics, nuclear techniques and a wide field from mathematics and theoretical physics, to chemistry and electronics. During the flood, the underground store of the library was flooded and about 30-40 % of the literature fund was lost.


The Damage continued

The most important destroyed journals areAtomic Data and Nuclear Data TablesEuropean Physical Journal A: Hadrons and

Nuclei International Journal of Modern Physics E:

Nuclear PhysicsJournal of Applied CrystallographyJournal of Synchrotron RadiationJournal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related

PhenomenaJournal of Mathematical PhysicsJournal of Nuclear Science and Technology Modern Physics Letters A Physica Scripta Physics TodayRadiochimica Acta Science

The other destroyed journals areApplications of Mathematics Byte Computer Design Contemporary Physics EDN Magazine Electronic Design Fortschritte der Physik -Progress of Physics Hyperfine interactions Microprocessors and Microsystems Ukrajinskii fizicheskii journal

Problemy procchnosti


The Nuclear Physics Institute has about 200 employees, of them nearly 100 scientists. There are about 22 research groups in the Nuclear Physics Institute, from them those listed in the following table are substantially affected by the flood. The financial estimates of the losses are also given.

We expect that the insurance company will cover a part of reparation and renewal budget, the support from the Academy of Sciences of the CR will also be received (spread for next few years).


Activity - No. of scientists involved - Losses by the flood - Losses in M$ Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics 8 Cyclotron see cyclotronFast Neutron Facility 8 Cyclotron see cyclotronRadiopharmaceutical R&D 4 Cyclotron,

+ complete radiochemical lab 0.03PET Radipharmaceuticals 5 Cyclotron, clean lab,

PET production box 0.29Cyclotron 8 Power supplies, vacuum

pumps, cooling systém 1.32Nuclear Electron Spectroscopy 7 Vacuum pump 0.005

Semiconductor Det. Development 3 Vacuum pump, multichannel analyser 0.005

Library 500 users More than 20.000 issues 0.50Primary dry and cleaning all 0.20Buildings reparations 0.75Total cost estimate 3.10


The Restoration Restoration work started immediately after water fall off with the cleaning and disinfections. No radioactive contamination has been detected.A provisional electricity distribution was arranged. Also the provisional water supply had to be provided.These measures enabled that the work could start 5 days after flood. The restoration of our basic equipment – cyclotron – needs a longer time, careful cleaning and drying ...,We hope that the provisional operation of the cyclotron could start at the end of 2002.


We look for other financial contributions and donations to restore and recover Institute work in full as soon as possible. Any such support should be gratefully appreciated.

The special item are irreversible losses of the literature fund, which are estimated to about $ 0.5M or even more. We would like to fill the gaps and if any library would be discarding duplicates of some above mentioned important journals we should be very grateful if the possibility of donating them to us could kindly be considered. ...


We should be also grateful for other journals or books on nuclear and subnuclear physics and on the physics and related fields in general.

If such a help could be a case, please contact

the scientific secretary of the Institute Dr. J. Dittrich [email protected]).

Nuclear reactions @NPI International common project of NPI and Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University at College Station covered by National Science Foundation (NSF, USA) and Ministry of education (CR).

systematic investigation of the particle capture reactions -> important for nuclear astrophysics (S-factors).

This research is realized partly on radioactive beams from superconducting cyclotron at College Station by group of prof. Tribble and partly on stable beams of isochronous cyclotron U-120M at Řež.Our collaboration, which started in 1996, is very effective. Delay -> last months of 2003.The financial support NSF USA , ME includes financial means for cyclotron beam time, purchase of technicalities and travel expenses necessary for realising of the joint project. But it cannot cover the replacement of cyclotron power sources damaged by the flood.

This library has been restored after the flood in August 2002 with the unforgettable help

of colleagues from American Physical Society

A possible help of APS may result in a board in both restored libraries:

Tato knihovna byla po povodních v srpnu 2002 restaurována s nezapomenutelnou pomocí kolegů

z Americké fyzikální společnosti.

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