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ISOLDE dives deeper in the mystery of the odd-even staggering effect

In a recent paper, to appear in Nature Physics in the next weeks (arXiv:1911.08765v3), the CRIS collaboration, located at the ISOLDE facility in CERN, presents measurements of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes that shed further light on one of…

PUMA: Exploring exotic nuclear phenomena with antimatter

PUMA is a new experiment proposed at both the CERN AD and ISOLDE facilities, that would for the first time transport antiprotons trapped at AD/ELENA to ISOLDE, by carrying them in a trap loaded onto a truck. The antiprotons would then be used…

Finding the best candidates for atomic EDM searches

The search for hints of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) calls for a combination of experimental strategies including both direct searches but also a number of very high-precision measurements of certain quantities looking for deviations…

MEDICIS: a new CERN facility can help medical research into 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…

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 beams, up to 5.5…

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 few are…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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