Annual Report 2007 - Institute of Radiation Physics

activities etc. in line of previous reports. In 2007, the various research directions were organized and performed in four departments: radiation physics, biophysics (both belonging to the program Life Science), nuclear physics and hadron physics (both belonging to Structure of Matter). A substantial part of the institute’s tasks is the performance and further development of the radiation source ELBE, for which a fifth department is responsible. Besides providing secondary beams for radiation physics and biology, nuclear and hadron physics, ELBE is used by groups from other institutes of the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, too in parts in common projects and by external users. Beamtime is used extensively by outside users while all beam time requests have been rated by an international advisory committee.
Some highlights in 2007 related to ELBE have been: first electron beam from superconducting HF gun, first pulsed fast neutron beams from nELBE, and first experiments with single electron pulses of high bunch charge (cell irradiation for radiobiological studies). These achievements are not yet documented in this report.