UBW
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Partner Description
The UBW, founded in 1973, has ~3200 students (mostly officer and officer cadets) in Engineering Science, Economics and Social Sciences. The Institute LRT2 of UBW runs several instruments to perform nuclear microscopy in the area of materials research and biology. Under an agreement with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) UBW uses slow positron beams from the Munich research reactor FRM II for materials characterization, and high-energy ions at the Munich 14 MV tandem accelerator and its high performance instruments for materials analysis and materials modification.
Role in SPIRIT and tasks
UBW will provide TNA for users to their specialised techniques in high resolution ERD and RBS, in 3D hydrogen microscopy and live cell micro-irradiation where UBW has world wide leadership. UBW will also participate in JRA to improve detectors for ERD measurements and the required data analysis software (WP6). UBW will contribute to the improvement of the resolution of targeted irradiation to the nanoscale (WP5) and to the implementation of advanced imaging techniques on beam-lines for in situ experiments on living cells (WP5).
Relevant Experience
The 14 MV tandem accelerator of the Munich Maier-Leibniz Laboratory (MLL) produces ion beams from protons to very heavy ions which at energies which are about 10 times higher than those at common accelerators used for materials analysis or in biology. In combination with high performance detection systems like the Q3D magnetic spectrograph and the superconducting nanoscope SNAKE, UBW has achieved the best performance for high resolution heavy ion ERD (at the Q3D), and for 3D hydrogen microscopy and live cell microirradiation and imaging (at SNAKE).
