HIE-ISOLDE | High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE

HIE-ISOLDE’s Phase 2 reaches completion

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

The HIE-ISOLDE project is on its way to providing radioactive nuclei at higher energies than before.
Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments

Friday, August 11, 2017

In July, the second phase of the High-Intensity and Energy upgrade (HIE-ISOLDE) saw its first user experiments get under way using the high-resolution Miniball germanium detector.
Ubuntu* - a powerful motto for an important experiment

Monday, July 24, 2017

The first African-led experiment has taken place at CERN. Students and staff from the University of the Western Cape (UWC) have investigated the isotope selenium 70 at CERN's Isolde facility.
HIE-ISOLDE: Nuclear physics gets further energy boost

Monday, July 17, 2017

For the first time in 2017, the HIE- ISOLDE linear accelerator began sending beams to an experiment, marking the start of ISOLDE’s high-energy physics programme for this year.
HIE-ISOLDE is tuning up for the new physics season

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

HIE-ISOLDE reached another milestone with the addition of the third cryomodule.
Retired MRI scanner gets new life studying the stars

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

A team of researchers has successfully taken a magnet from a decommissioned MRI scanner used by a Brisbane, Australia, hospital for scanning patients, and recycled it for use in an experiment at CERN’s ISOLDE facility.
HIE-ISOLDE celebrates the end of the first stage of the energy upgrade and the great physics outcome

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

On 28th September, the ISOLDE Collaboration celebrated the completion of stage 1 of the HIE-ISOLDE project, which opens up new physics opportunities for radioactive ion beam experiments at CERN.
First physics at HIE-ISOLDE begins

Friday, October 14, 2016

In early September, the first physics experiment using radioactive beams from the newly upgraded ISOLDE facility got under way.
First physics experiment at HIE-ISOLDE begins

Friday, September 9, 2016

This weekend the first physics experiment started running using radioactive beams from the newly upgraded HIE-ISOLDE facility.
Higher energies for ISOLDE's radioactive ion beams

Thursday, September 1, 2016

First stage of ISOLDE's high energy and intensity upgrade complete.
HIE-ISOLDE: Stage 1 fully installed

Friday, June 24, 2016

The High Intensity and Energy at ISOLDE, HIE-ISOLDE, project intends to improve the experimental capabilities at ISOLDE over a wide front.
Upgraded nuclear physics facility starts up

Monday, November 16, 2015

Over the last few weeks, CERN's nuclear physics facility, ISOLDE, has been producing ion beams at higher energies.
A boost for the ISOLDE beams

Monday, November 16, 2015

The first HIE-ISOLDE cryomodule was commissioned at the end of October. The radioactive ion beams can now be accelerated to 4.3 MeV per nucleon.
Meeting the challenges of the High-Energy ISOLDE!

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Maria Borge (ISOLDE's spokesperson) and Yacine Kadi (project leader of the HIE-ISOLDE) discuss the importance of reaching a higher energy regime with the HIE-ISOLDE and the technical challenges of this project.

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