Research

Key research areas include the design and construction of the microvertex detector and the electromagnetic calorimeter of the PANDA experiment at the future FAIR research facility in Darmstadt, as well as the investigation of the nature and spectrum of hadrons at the Crystal Barrel/TAPS experiments at the ELSA accelerator facility in Bonn and CLAS at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA, USA. Additionally, upcoming projects include research in space radiation and neutron dosimetry at tumor radiation therapy.

PANDA PANDA is one of the large detector systems at the FAIR research facility currently under construction in Darmstadt. In this context, the Brinkmann working group is involved in the planning and implementation of the micro vertex detector (MVD) and electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) subsystems as well as simulation studies for the physics program. For the activities related to the PANDA experiment, the Brinkmann working group receives financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the ErUM-FSP T08 research focus.
ELSA At the ELSA electron accelerator facility in Bonn, the spectrum of hadrons and their properties are investigated at the Crystal Barrel/TAPS experiment. The Brinkmann group is mainly concerned with the production of pseudoscalar meson pairs and, together with the University of Basel, is also in charge of the miniTAPS subdetector, an electromagnetic calorimeter in the setup of the CBELSA/TAPS experiment.
CLAS The CLAS experiment at the CEBAF electron accelerator of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Virginia also investigates the structure of the strong interaction in photo- and electroproduction of hadronic states. The Brinkmann group is mainly concerned with cascading decays of baryon resonances and provides support in the detector area for the new expansion stage of the experiment, CLAS12.
RUBIK The RUBIK detector aims to measure the trajectory of cosmic primary particles using an orbiting detector platform in space. It consists of a number of small active cubes made out of scintillation material. The segmented detection volume allows a 3D reconstruction of the trajectory of particles passing through the detector. The RUBIK detector is part of the Research and Observation in Medium Earth Orbit (ROMEO) satellite mission.
High-D The High-D consortium is a large scale coordinated effort to develop high-precision detectors for applications in High-Energy and Hadron and Nuclear Physics. The research effort includes ten universities and four research centers to develop a new generation of detectors with unprecedented spatial, temporal and energetic resolutions. The project is supported by the BMBF.

PANDA

PANDA is one of the large detector systems at the FAIR research facility currently under construction in Darmstadt. In this context, the Brinkmann working group is involved in the planning and implementation of the micro vertex detector (MVD) and electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) subsystems as well as simulation studies for the physics program.

For the activities related to the PANDA experiment, the Brinkmann working group receives financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the ErUM-FSP T08 research focus.

ELSA

At the ELSA electron accelerator facility in Bonn, the spectrum of hadrons and their properties are investigated at the Crystal Barrel/TAPS experiment. The Brinkmann group is mainly concerned with the production of pseudoscalar meson pairs and, together with the University of Basel, is also in charge of the miniTAPS subdetector, an electromagnetic calorimeter in the setup of the CBELSA/TAPS experiment.

CLAS

The CLAS experiment at the CEBAF electron accelerator of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Virginia also investigates the structure of the strong interaction in photo- and electroproduction of hadronic states. The Brinkmann group is mainly concerned with cascading decays of baryon resonances and provides support in the detector area for the new expansion stage of the experiment, CLAS12.

RUBIK

The RUBIK detector aims to measure the trajectory of cosmic primary particles using an orbiting detector platform in space. It consists of a number of small active cubes made out of scintillation material. The segmented detection volume allows a 3D reconstruction of the trajectory of particles passing through the detector. The RUBIK detector is part of the Research and Observation in Medium Earth Orbit (ROMEO) satellite mission.

High-D

The High-D consortium is a large scale coordinated effort to develop high-precision detectors for applications in High-Energy and Hadron and Nuclear Physics. The research effort includes ten universities and four research centers to develop a new generation of detectors with unprecedented spatial, temporal and energetic resolutions. The project is supported by the BMBF.

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