Professional Appointments

• Assistant at the Department of Physical Electronics (ZEF), IF UJ - 1976
• PhD Student at ZEF, IF UJ - 1977
• Senior Assistant at ZEF, IF UJ - 1980
• Assistant Professor at ZEF, IF UJ - 1884
• Assistant Professor at ZEF, IF UJ - 2001
• University Professor at ZFGM, IF UJ - 2016

Education

• M.Sc., Jagiellonian University - 1976
• Ph.D., Jagiellonian University - 1980
• Habilitated doctor, Jagiellonian University - 2001

Honors and Awards

• Team award of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University, 2^nd degree for organizational activity - 2012

Research

The field of my scientific activity is nuclear physics. My research concerns the strong interaction between nucleons in systems with many degrees of freedom, constituting nuclear matter. The primary experimental method is to study the course of nuclear reactions and the mechanism of heavy-ion reactions covering the Fermi energy region (30-100 MeV / A) and ending with ultra-relativistic energies. A separate topic of my activity is cooperation in developing the Jagiellonian - Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) based on plastic scintillators.

The evolution of the mechanism from deeply inelastic to multifragmentation reactions occurs near the Fermi energy, i.e., when the velocities of nucleons inside colliding nuclei are of the same order as the relative velocities of the centers of mass of these nuclei. The description of phenomena in this area requires considering the interaction with the averaged potential, i.e., the one-body interaction and individual nucleon-nucleon collisions, i.e., the two-body interaction, with appropriate weights. Work on the experimental systems to study the mechanism of nuclear reactions at Fermi energies included three innovative research devices: a gas detector using the dependence of range on the type and energy of charged particles, a gas chamber to identify the recorded fragments in real-time, and a multi-anode gas detector scanning the Bragg curve of energy losses.

In the range of ultra-relativistic energies, research aimed at detecting the signatures of the state of nuclear matter called gluon-quark plasma has become the area of my scientific activity. As part of the BRAHMS collaboration, I conducted this research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on the RHIC ultra-relativistic counter-rotating beams accelerator. By joining the collaboration, I participated in designing and constructing three complex detection systems based on drift chambers in Krakow. These detectors have become the primary measurement tool in the BRAHMS experiment, particularly in measuring high rapidity events. To illustrate the technical complexity of the prepared measurement systems, let me add that the average production is  a few thousands of particles during a single collision with an ultra-relativistic collision of two heavy ions.

The future of nuclear physics in the next dozen or so years will be determined mainly by the ongoing intensive development of new generation installations delivering beams outside the stability path (SPIRAL2, FAIR, SPES). The new generation of radioactive beams aims to increase the intensity by several orders of magnitude and shift the upper energy limit from a few MeV/nucleon to 1 GeV/nucleon. Research using radioactive beams is not feasible with the best detection systems available today, such as INDRA (GANIL) or CHIMERA (LNS-Catania), due to the lack of mass identification needed to register isospin effects. The FAZIA (Forward A and Z Identification Array) collaboration, in which I participated for several years, defined the technical conditions and measurement methodology, allowing to build a detection system with high angular and energetic resolution and low energy threshold (1 MeV/n). It resulted in charge resolution up to Z = 70 and masses resolution up to A = 50. Achieving such exorbitant system parameters was possible thanks to the development of innovative solutions. They include entirely digital signal processing technique, fragment mass identification through real-time digitization of pulses and pulse shape analysis (DPSA - Digital Pulse Shape Analysis) with original mathematical algorithms, the use of silicon detectors with high homogeneity of doping through reactions with neutrons (nTD neutron Transmutation Doping).

Selected Publications

1. F. Salomon, P. Edelbruck, G. Brulin, B. Borderie, A. Richard, M.F. Rivet, G. Verde, E. Wanlin, A. Boiano, G. Tortone, G. Poggi, M. Bini, G. Casini, S. Barlini, G. Pasquali, S. Valdré, M.  Petcu, R. Bougault, N. Le Neindre, R. Alba, E. Bonnet, M. Bruno, A. Chbihi, M. Cinausero, D. Dell’Aquila, H. De Préaumont, J.A. Duenas, Q. Fable,D. Fabris, L. Francalanza, J.D.  Frankland, E. Galichet, F. Gramegna, D. Gruyer, M. Guerzoni, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, R.  La Torre, I. Lombardo, O. Lopez, J. Mabiala,C. Maiolino, T. Marchi, P. Maurenzig, A.  Meoli, Y. Merrer, L. Morelli, A. Nannini,A. Olmi, A. Ordine, M. Pârlog, G. Pastore, S.  Piantelli, E. Rosato, D. Santonocito,E. Scarlini, G. Spadacini, A. Stefaninni, E. Vient and M. Vigilante, „Front-end electronics for the FAZIA experiment”, Journal of Instrumentation, Vol. 11, Article Number: C01064, Published: JAN 2016
2. D. Gruyer, E. Bonnet, A. Chbihi, J.D. Frankland, S. Barlini, B. Borderie, R.  Bougault, J.A. Dueñas, E. Galiche, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, N. Le Neindre, O. Lopez, M. Pârlog, G. Pastore, S. Piantelli, S. Valdré, G. Verde, E. Vient, „New semi-automatic method for reaction product charge and mass identification in heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies”, Nuc. Instr. & Meth. in Phys. Res.  A 847, 142-147 (2017)
3. G. Pastore, D. Gruyer, P. Ottanelli, N. Le Neindre, G. Pasquali, R. Alba, S. Barlini, M. Bini, E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, R. Bougault, M.Bruno, G. Casini, A. Chbihi, D. Dell'Aquila, J.A. Duenas, D. Fabris, L. Francalanza, J.D. Frankland, F. Gramegna, M. Henri, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, I. Lombardo, O. Lopez, L. Morelli, A. Olmi, M. Parlog, S. Piantelli, G. Poggi, D. Santonocito, A.A. Stefanini, S. Valdre, G. Verde, E. Vient, M. Vigilante, „Isotopic identification using Pulse Shape Analysis of current signals from Silicon detectors: recent results from the FAZIA collaboration”, Nuc. Instr. & Meth. in Phys. Res. A 860, 42-50 (2017)
4. G. Korcyl , P. Białas, C. Curceanu, E. Czerwińnski, K. Dulski, B. Flak, A. Gajos, B. Głowacz, M. Gorgol, B. C. Hiesmayr, B. Jasi´nska, K.  Kacprzak, M. Kajetanowicz, D. Kisielewska, P. Kowalski, T. Kozik, N. Krawczyk, W. Krzemie´n, E. Kubicz, M. Mohammed, Sz. Nied´zwiecki, M. Pawlik-Nied´zwiecka, M. Pałka, L. Raczy´nski, P. Rajda, Z. Rudy, P. Salabura, N. G. Sharma, S. Sharma, R. Y. Shopa, M. Skurzok, M. Silarski, P. Strzempek, A.Wieczorek, W. Wiślicki, R. Zaleski, B. Zgardzińska, M. Zieliński, and P. Moskal, „Evaluation of Single-Chip, Real-Time Tomographic Data Processing on FPGA SoC Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, no. 11, vol. 37, pp. 2526-2535, 2018
5. S. Valdré, G. Casini, N. Le Neindre, M. Bini, A. Boiano, B. Borderie, P. Edelbruck, G. Poggi, F. Salomon, G. Tortone, R. Alba, S. Barlini, E. Bonnet, B. Bougard, R. Bougault, G.  Brulin, M. Bruno, A. Buccola, A. Camaiani, A. Chbihi, C. Ciampi, M. Cicerchia, M. Cinausero, D. Dell’Aquila, P. Desrues, J.A. Dueñas, D. Fabris, M. Falorsi, J.D. Frankland, C. Frosin, E. Galichet, R. Giordano, F. Gramegna, L. Grassi, D. Gruyer, M. Guerzoni, M. Henri, M. Kajetanowicz, K. Korcyl, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, P. Lecomte, I. Lombardo, O. Lopez, C. Maiolino, G.  Mantovani, T. Marchi, A. Margotti, Y. Merrer, L. Morelli, A. Olmi, A. Ordine, P. Ottanelli, C. Pain, M. Pałka, M. Pârlog, G. Pasquali, G. Pastore, S. Piantelli, H. de Préaumont, R. Revenko, A. Richard, M.F. Rivet, J. Ropert, E. Rosato, F. Saillant, D. Santonocito, E. Scarlini, S. Serra, C. Soulet, G. Spadaccini, A.A. Stefanini, G. Tobia, S. Upadhyaya, A. Vanzanella, G. Verde, E. Vient, M. Vigilante, E. Wanlin, G. Wittwer, A. Zucchini, “The FAZIA setup: A review on the electronics and the mechanical mounting”, Nuc. Instr. & Meth. in Phys. Res.  A 930, 27-36 (2019)
6. S. Piantelli , G. Casini, A. Ono, G. Poggi, G. Pastore, S. Barlini, A. Boiano, E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, R. Bougault, M. Bruno, A. Buccola, A.  Camaiani, A. Chbihi, M. Cicerchia, M. Cinausero, M. D’Agostino, M. Degerlier, J. A. Dueñas, Q. Fable, D. Fabris, J. D. Frankland, C. Frosin, F. Gramegna, D. Gruyer, M. Henri, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, N. Le Neindre, I. Lombardo, O. Lopez, G. Mantovani, T. Marchi, L. Morelli, A. Olmi, P. Ottanelli, M. Pârlog, G. Pasquali, A. A. Stefanini, G. Tortone, S. Upadhyaya, S. Valdré, G. Verde, E. Vient, M. Vigilante, R. Alba, and C. Maiolino, “Dynamical fission of the quasiprojectile and isospin equilibration for the system 80Kr+48Ca at 35 MeV/nucleon”, Phys. Rev. C 101, 034613 (2020)
7. S. Barlini, M. Bini, A. Buccola, A. Camaiani, G. Casini, C. Ciampi, C. Frosin, P. Ottanelli, G.  Pasquali, S. Piantelli, G. Poggi, A. A. Stefanini, S. Valdré, E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, R. Bougault, A. Chibli, M. Cicerchia, M. Cinausero, J. A. Dueñas, D. Fabris, J. Frankland, D. Gruyer, M. Henri, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, N. LeNeindre, I. Lombardo, O. Lopez, G. Mantovani, T. Marchi, J. Quicray, S. Upadhyaya, G. Verde, E. Vient, M. Vigilante, “FAZIA: a new performing detector for charged particles”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1561 (2020) 012003
8. S. Piantelli, G. Casini, A. Ono, G. Poggi, G. Pastore, S. Barlini, M. Bini, A. Boiano, E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, R. Bougault, M. Bruno, A. Buccola, A. Camaiani, A. Chbihi, C. Ciampi, M. Cicerchia, M. Cinausero, M. Degerlier, J. A. Dueñas, Q. Fable, D. Fabris, J. D. Frankland, C. Frosin, F. Gramegna, D. Gruyer, A. Kordyasz, T. Kozik, J. Lemarié, N. Le Neindre, I. Lombardo, O. Lopez, G. Mantovani, T. Marchi, M. Henri, L. Morelli, A. Olmi, P. Ottanelli, M. Pârlog, G. Pasquali, J. Quicray, A. A. Stefanini, G. Tortone, S. Upadhyaya, S. Valdré, G. Verde, E. Vient, and M. Vigilante, “Isospin transport phenomena for the systems 80Kr+40,48Ca at 35 MeV/nucleon”, Phys. Rev. C  103, 014603 (2021)
9. Paweł Moskal, Kamil Dulski, Neha Chug, Catalina Curceanu, Eryk Czerwiński, Meysam Dadgar, Jan Gajewski, Aleksander Gajos, Grzegorz Grudzień, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr, Krzysztof Kacprzak, Łukasz Kapłon, Hanieh Karimi, Konrad Klimaszewski, Grzegorz Korcyl, Paweł Kowalski, Tomasz Kozik, Nikodem Krawczyk, Wojciech Krzemień, Ewelina Kubicz, Piotr Małczak, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Monika Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, Michał Pędziwiatr, Lech Raczyński, Juhi Raj, Antoni Ruciński, Sushil Sharma, Shivani, Roman Y. Shopa, Michał Silarski, Magdalena Skurzok, Ewa Ł. Stępień, Monika Szczepanek, Faranak Tayefi, Wojciech Wiślicki, „Positronium imaging with the novel multiphoton PET scanner”, Science Advances 2021; 7: eabh4394
10. P. Moskal, A. Gajos, M. Mohammed, J. Chhokar, N. Chug, C. Curceanu, E. Czerwiński, M. Dadgar, K. Dulski, M. Gorgol, J. Goworek, B. C. Hiesmayr, B. Jasińska, K. Kacprzak, Ł. Kapłon, H. Karimi1, D. Kisielewska, K. Klimaszewski, G. Korcyl, P. Kowalski, N. Krawczyk, W. Krzemień, T. Kozik, E. Kubicz, S. Niedźwiecki, S. Parzych, M. Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, L. Raczyński, J. Raj, S. Sharma, S. Choudhary, R. Y.  Shopa, A. Sienkiewicz, M. Silarski, M. Skurzok, E. Ł. Stępień, F. Tayefi, W. Wiślicki, "Testing CPT symmetry in ortho-positronium decays with positronium annihilation tomography", Nature Communications (2021) 12:5658