The HIE-ISOLDE project aims at several important upgrades of the present ISOLDE radioactive beam facility at CERN. The main focus lies in increasing the energy of the radionuclide beams from 3 MeV/u up to 10 MeV/u through the construction of a superconducting post-accelerator. The upgrade substantially enhances research opportunities in most aspects of nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics, making ISOLDE the only facility in the world capable of accelerating medium to heavy radioactive isotopes in this energy range.
The HIE-ISOLDE project also includes a design study of improved production targets to accommodate the future increase of proton intensity which will be delivered by the new LINAC4 proton driver. This improvement, combined with the solid state lasers of the RILIS laser ion source and the radiofrequency quadrupole cooler and buncher ISCOOL, will lead to an increase of the radioactive beam intensities of up to an order of magnitude.
Latest News
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HIE-ISOLDE’s Phase 2 reaches completion
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
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Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments
Friday, August 11, 2017
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Ubuntu* - a powerful motto for an important experiment
Monday, July 24, 2017
Latest Publications
- HIE-ISOLDE : technical design report for the energy upgrade , CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs , 2018 ,
- Status of radioactive ion beam post-acceleration at CERN-ISOLDE , Proc. IPAC2017 , 2017 ,
- Post-accelerated beams at ISOLDE , Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics , 2017 ,
- Conceptual design report on a charge breeder for HIE-ISOLDE , CERN , 2017 ,
- Beam Dynamics Studies of the HIE-ISOLDE Transfer Lines in the Presence of Magnetic Stray Fields , Proc. IPAC2017 , 2017 ,
- Superconducting Linac in the heavy ion facility ISOLDE at CERN – development of thin film superconducting accelerating cavities , Japan Association of High Energy Physicists , 2017 ,
- ISOLDE at CERN , Nuclear Physics News , 2016 ,
- Highlights of the ISOLDE facility and the HIE-ISOLDE project , Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B , 2016 ,
- Beam Commissioning Of The HIE-ISOLDE Post-Accelerator , Proc. IPAC 2016 , 2016 ,
- HIE-ISOLDE: First Commissioning Experience , Proc. IPAC 2016 , 2016 ,