Tag: ISOLDE
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MEDICIS: a new CERN facility can help medical research into cancer
MEDICIS: a new CERN facility can help medical research into cancer BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/medicis-new-cern-facility-can-help-medical-research-cancer) Last week, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced
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HIE-ISOLDE celebrates the end of the first stage of the energy upgrade and the great physics outcome.
HIE-ISOLDE celebrates the end of the first stage of the energy upgrade and the great physics outcome. There was an air of celebration at CERN on Wednesday 28th September as nearly 100 invited guests gathered to mark the successful completion of phase 1 of the HIE-ISOLDE project, which aims to provide higher intensity and energy
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ISOLDE sheds light to the nature of the proposed magic number N = 32
ISOLDE sheds light to the nature of the proposed magic number N = 32 The most intuitive properties of the nucleus are its mass and size. Both properties can be precisely studied with dedicated experiments at ISOLDE. Most of the nuclei are deformed, i.e. shaped like a rugby ball or like a pancake, only a
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Two distinctions for ISOLDE scientists
Two distinctions for ISOLDE scientists Two ISOLDE scientists have received prestigious awards this year for their research in the field of nuclear and particle physics. Kara Marie Lynch was honoured with the GENCO Young Scientist award, which recognizes outstanding achievements of young scientists in the field of exotic nuclei and super-heavy elements. The GENCO prize
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ISOLDE offers safety training courses
ISOLDE offers safety training courses One of the safety challenges faced by the PH Department is how to provide safety training and raise awareness for the large number of users. Most of them visit CERN only for short periods of time, thus they often do not have the chance to attend one of the scheduled
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ISOLDE first to produce physics after the LS1
ISOLDE first to produce physics after the LS1 ISOLDE, CERN’s nuclear physics facility started physics the 1st of August. Several experiments have already been completed thanks to the wonderful job done by Magdalena Kowalska, our beam coordinator, the technical CERN team and all the users that worked intensively to produce the best physics possible. Up
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Test Storage Ring at ISOLDE
Test Storage Ring at ISOLDE On Valentine’s day, the lovers of the Test Storage Ring (TSR) at ISOLDE joined expertise in a full day workshop dedicated to study in detail the possible day-one experiments to be done there (see: http://isolde.web.cern.ch/updates/tsrisolde-workshop-14th-february-2014). An anatomy of the proposed experiments and a detailed analysis of the pro and cons
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Three Natures in the ISOLDE hand
Three Natures in the ISOLDE hand The radioactive beam facility at CERN, ISOLDE(1) has pioneered many achievements both at the level of designing new devices and of producing frontier Physics. These demarches have been crowned by a series of papers in Nature and Nature communication published within a month. BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url
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Meeting the challenges of the High-Energy ISOLDE!
Meeting the challenges of the High-Energy ISOLDE! The On-Line Isotope Mass Separator ISOLDE is a facility dedicated to the production, study and use of exotic nuclei located far from the valley of stability i.e. far from the species found naturally on Earth. These exotic nuclei are being studied in many different experiments in the fields
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ISOLTRAP’s MR-ToF mass separator to plumb a neutron star
ISOLTRAP’s MR-ToF mass separator to plumb a neutron star The mass of an atomic nucleus is one of its most fundamental properties.Via the binding energy, i.e., the difference in mass between its constituents (protons and neutrons) and the entire nucleus, it reflects the sum of all interactions present. Precision mass measurements of short-lived isotopes provide