College 3 Seminar | Experimental activities at the ISOLDE-CERN facility

Carlotta Porzio

CERN, Switzerland

carlotta.porzio@cern.ch

The ISOLDE facility at CERN is one of the world-leading laboratories for the production of radioactive ion beams (RIBs) with the ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) method. More than 1000 isotopes of over 70 chemical elements have been produced via the interaction of a 1.4 GeV proton beam with a variety of target materials. After ionization and mass separation, the beams can be delivered at low energy or post-accelerated up to about 10 MeV/u using the HIE-ISOLDE linear accelerator. The facility supports a broad scientific program, spanning nuclear structure studies, nuclear astrophysics, materials science, life sciences, and investigations of fundamental interactions.

Among the experimental setups available at HIE-ISOLDE, the Miniball gamma-ray spectrometer is employed to investigate both collective and single-particle properties of exotic nuclei. Combined with the post-accelerated radioactive ion beams, Miniball enables nuclear structure studies via Coulomb excitation and nucleon-transfer reactions.

This seminar will provide an introduction to the ISOLDE facility and the ISOL RIB production method, and an overview of experimental setups and techniques, with a focus on the Miniball spectrometer.
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