1. The project involves the applications of nuclear technology based on the data collected through the fundamental research, that's why it is indispensable to determine nuclear structure as well as nuclear reaction data by using experimental technique.
2. One of the important area of the nuclear technology is the production of radioisotopes, on the one hand as a radiation source, on the other hand as an additive, as well as in the volume of the material to be investigated. These tracers can then applied for following processes in a rapid and economic way.
3. Production of new surface layers by irradiation and investigation of those, elaboration of irradiation and measurement methods for wear measurement of materials of novel constitution and structure. Development of novel nuclear particle detectors based on nanotechnology.
4. Development of accelerator based production on therapeutic and diagnostic radionuclides, elaboration of their radiochemical separation. Development of theranostic radioisotopes and targeted radionuclide therapy.

Budget: 1.191.526.000 HUF

In the frame of this project, research infrastructure units of Atomki are set into a control software framework thus establishing a remotely controllable virtual laboratory. The aim of the system integration is to create a complex infrastructure suitable to make radiobiological and radiation hardening measurements. The subsystems involved in the integration: cyclotron accelerator - neutron source and vertical beam-end for isotope production, tandetron accelerator, Van de Graaff accelerator, Co-60 source, MiniPET-3 small animal Positron Emission Tomograph and radiochemical laboratory, ESCA (Electron Spectrometer for Chemical Applications), MGGL (Matra Gravitational and Geophysical Laboratory), ECR ion source, PEM (Physical Environment Monitoring) system.

Leader of consortium:

• Evopro NPA Kft, former Evopro Systems Engineering Kft (support: 398.725.723 Ft, 57%)

Members of consortium:

• Atomki (support: 185.500.010 Ft, 100%)
• Biological Research Centre (support: 145.561.008 Ft, 100%)
• University of Szeged (support: 239.834.823 Ft, 100%)

MTA Atomki is an in-kind contributor of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in its construction phase. The objective of the project is development, production and commissioning of the radiofrequency local protection system of the linear accelerator. With this research and development (R&D) project, Hungary - as a founding member of ESS ERIC consortium - can partly replace its cash payment.

In the frame of this project, MTA Atomki improves PET (Positron Emission Tomography) methods for medical and research purpose, based on the self-developed small animal PET camera.

Tasks:

• Data aquisition protocols for cell culture and plant labelling, for functional food studies, for various samples and for small animal studies with the small animal PET camera.
• Synthesis protocols for compounds labelled with C-11 and F-18 positron emitter radioisotopes.
• Cell cultures and functional food studies using radioactive isotopes.
• Application of physics, nuclear physics and biophysics in the development of modern biotechnological methods.
• Modelling of vascular system with flow network, studies of cell protein synthesis using Boolean network model.
• Test measurements with the small animal PET camera and Monte-Carlo simulation.

Participation in the upgrade of the alignment system planned for 2013 and 2014. Individual calibration and installation of the new devices. Reinstallation of the alignment system on the CMS detector. Commissioning of the alignment system. Validation of the alignment data with real physics data collected by the CMS experiment.

Refurbishment of the CMS laboratory for alignment and the FBGs. Purchasing devices needed for the new tests. Participation in the research and development of new FBG and LPG sensors for the CMS detector. Installation of new FBG sensors in the CMS detector. Commissioning of the upgraded FOS4CMS system and important upgrades to the software system. Operating the FOS4CMS system. Radiation hardness tests on the new sensors. Data analysis of the radhard measurements.

Participation in the upgrade project of the CMS Muon EndCap System. Expert works on the wire tension measurement system.

The aim of the project is dissemination which means throwing seeds around, in other words distribution of knowledge. The project has six major and some minor activities:

• traveling physics and
• interdisciplinary workshop

both with different topics in the four terms: water, protection systems of the Earth, cold - warm and energy,

• interactive multimedia (Miasma - or Devil's Stone, interactive film),
• international school before the conference Nuclei in the Cosmos,
• Atomki brochures,
• Atomki webpage.

In the frame of the project Central Nervous System Imaging, researchers of Atomki developed the MiniPET-3 small animal PET scanner in collaboration with University of Debrecen and international partners. In the detectors forming a ring, the traditional photomultipliers are replaced with silicon based photomultipliers. The latter is insensitive to the magnetic field so enables the fusion of PET and MRI imagers. The other great result of this project is the BrainMOD software which can combine and visualize data coming from various medical diagnostic equipments (PET, SPECT, MRI, EEG, EIT) graphically and user-friendly.