Annual report / Jülich Center for Hadron Physics / Institut für Kernphysik / COSY: 2014

An important milestone has been reached in 2014: The evaluation of both the experimentaland the theoretical proposal for the third period of programme-oriented funding (PoF) of the Helmholtz Association resulted in excellent reports on the proposals presented by IKP. Consequently the base funding of the institute up to the end of 2019 has been secured. The institute thanks Prof. Dr. R. Maier for his strong scientific leadership of IKP-4 during the past thirty years, which has made a major contribution to the success of the IKP. He will continue to support the institute by his ideas and advice. We thank Prof. A. Lehrach for his fine interim management of IKP-4 after Prof. Maier’s retirement in early 2014. On December 1, IKP has welcomed the new director of IKP-4, Prof. Mei Bai.In the next five years, COSY will concentrate on two activities. In preparation of FAIR, COSY will test components of the high energy storage ring HESR and the detector system PANDA. Within the Jülich-Aachen research alliance (JARA), a precursorexperiment for the determination of the electromagnetic dipole moment (EDM) of charged particles in a storage ring will be developed by the JEDI collaboration. The experimental activities in hadron physics at COSY have ended in 2014. The program advisory committee (PAC) has completed its mission in 2014. The research center thanks both present and past members for their expert advice in choosing the most promising experiments. Beam time at COSY remains a precious commodity. The new COSY beam advisory committee (CBAC) will help to make the future COSY activities a success