ISOLDE<\/a> is a radioactive ion beam facility serving many different experiments in the fields of nuclear and atomic physics, solid-state physics, materials science and life sciences. The facility is located at the Proton-Synchrotron Booster (PSB) of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN. It is operated by the ISOLDE<\/a> Collaboration, whose present members are: Belgium, CERN, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Finnish participation in ISOLDE<\/a> activities is co-ordinated via HIP.<\/p>\n At ISOLDE<\/a>, radioactive nuclides are produced via spallation, fission, or fragmentation reactions in a thick target, irradiated with a proton beam from the PSB at an energy of 1.4 GeV and an intensity up to 2 mA. ISOLDE<\/a> presently offers a diverse range of radioactive isotopes, and the installation of a post-accelerator at ISOLDE (REX-ISOLDE<\/a>) has opened new fields of research with radioactive ion beams of higher energies. More than 600 isotopes with half-lives down to milliseconds of almost 70 elements (Z=2 to 88) have been produced at intensities up to 1011<\/sup> atoms per mA proton beam.<\/p>\n The large variety of available species allows the systematic investigation of atomic and nuclear properties of nuclei far from beta-stability. In addition, research takes place in related fields like astrophysics and weak-interaction physics. Solid-state physics and biomedical studies are an essential part of the scientific programme.<\/p>\n The installation of REX-ISOLDE<\/a> has opened up new fields of research with radioactive ion beams of higher energies, in particular light-medium mass nuclei for reaction studies with energies up to 3.1 MeV\/u. These beams can, for example, be Coulomb excited and studied via gamma-ray spectroscopy using the MINIBALL<\/a> array.<\/p>\n In future, the maximum beam energy will be increased as part of the HIE-ISOLDE<\/a> project. Increasing the beam energy will allow a wider range of nuclear reactions to be employed, in turn widening the range of experiments which can be carried out at ISOLDE<\/a>.<\/p>\n ISOLDE ISOLDE is a radioactive ion beam facility serving many different experiments in the fields of nuclear and atomic physics, solid-state physics, materials science and life sciences. The facility is located at the Proton-Synchrotron Booster (PSB) of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN. It is operated by the ISOLDE Collaboration, whose present members are: Belgium, CERN, Denmark, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hip.fi\/nuclear-matter-programme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Project Leader Janne Pakarinen <janne.pakarinen at jyu.fi><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"