1. News of the ISOLDE Group 2nd of November 2016
Maria J. G. Borge

2. Outline Associates, Fellows and Students
Courses and activities 2016 – 2017
ENSAR 2
Focus on Exotic beams at ISOLDE: A Laboratory portrait.
HIE-ISOLDE Phase I celebration
Long Range Plan

3. Fellows & Associates & Corresponding Associates
Associates (9th March 2017)
Bertram Blank (Sep 2016 – August 2017)
Strong candidates
Corresponding Associates (9th March 2017)
Georgi Rainovski (Ago – Oct 2016)
Joao Pedro Steves De Araujo (2 months, Jan-Feb 2017)
Fellows: (28th of February 2017)
Stephan Ettenbauer (June 2014 – Jan 2017, COLLAPS, Polarisation beams)/ERC
Liam Gaffney (Oct 2016 – Sep 2019)
Kara Lynch (Jan 2015 – Dec 2017)
Vladimir Manea (Jan2016 – Dec 2017)
Akira Miyazaki (June April 2017, SC cavities + support?)
Lina Pallada ( April 2017-, ERC)
Andree Welker (June ) (Applied Fellow, setting zero-spectrometer)
Frank Wienholtz (Jan2016 – Dec2018) (Applied Fellow, ERC)

4. Doctoral Students Doctoral student
CERN Doctoral Student for IDS: Razvan Lica (Sep2014 – August 2017)
Doctoral Program for life sciences (50% GR, 33% CERN,11% Madga’s ERC )
Stavroula Pallada (March Feb 2017), Biophysics
Doctoral Program with Germany
Andree Werkens (feb 2015-Jan2018) ISOLTRAP
Doctoral student York-CERN (ERC)
Rob Harding (presently covered by U. York)
Doctoral student Lund - CERN
Jacob Snall (August Jun2019) HIE-Physics
And many other paid by their home institution.

5. Workshops / News Courses Workshop & conferences
Separator courses 2016: November
21-23 November
Workshop & conferences
Next ISOLDE Workshop: 7-9 December 2016
Satellite workshop December 6th at 13:30h
ENSAR2: NUSPRASEN network
Aim to know better how the different facilities work
Everybody invited to participate.
NuPECC CERN : of March

6. FP8 ENSAR2 Partners of 7  10 TNA Facilities 30  30 beneficiaries
JYL
30  30 beneficiaries
15 countries
Community: scientists and highly qualified engineers
UoY
UWAR-HIL & IFJ PAN I
RUG-KVI
ULIV
JLU
KUL
Köln
GSI
GANIL
Close collaboration with infrastructures outside Europe:
Canada: TRIUMF
China: IMP Lanzhou
Japan: RIKEN & RCNP
Russia: Dubna/JINR
South Africa: iThemba
United States: NSCL & ANL
CEA
ULB
MedAustron
JOGU
ATOMKI-HAS
ARRONAX
ALTO-CNRS
LMU
ECT*
ELI-NP / IFIN-HH
USC
ISOLDE-CERN
LNL-INFN
CIEMAT
UMIL
FFCUL
NCSRD
CSIC
Univ. Sevilla
LNS-INFN 6

7. Executive Board of PCC (first meeting 13th /10/2016)
Management Group
Coordinator: Muhsin N. Harakeh
Deputy Coordinator: Marek Lewitowicz
Manager: Ketel Turzó
Financial Officer: Veronique Vandevoorde
Administrative Officer: Sandrine Dubromel
Executive Board of PCC (first meeting 13th /10/2016)
TNAs: Maria G. Borge
Ari Jokinen
NAs: Andres Gadea
Olaf Tengblad
JRAs: Sylvia M. Lenzi
Christoph Scheidenberger

8. BUDGET Total budget for ENSAR2: 10 000 000 €
to share between 30 beneficiaries
Pre-financing: €
Next funding: after validation
of each periodic report
TNA : 10 facilities including ECT*
NA : 7 including the FISCO office
NuPIA (Innovation)
JRA: 7 8

9. ENSAR2-TNA @ ISOLDE Selection committee:
B. Blank, K. Riisager, K. Blaum, P. Van Duppen, M.J. Garcia Borge, K. Johnston, J. Schell.
Three meetings: 21 / 3 / 2016, 6 / 6 / 2016 and 25 / 7 / 2016
749 days allocated
(Reporting Period) For the first 3 months of the ENSAR2 project until 31st of May we have awarded 211 days to 16 projects.
588 days already paid corresponding to CHF
We require the report of the experiment to the IP before proceeding to the payment.
Allowance reduced from 138 CHF to 120 CHF due to overheads

10. NuPECC News: Long Range Plan
The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee has started the preparation of a new Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science in Europe.
Last one in LRP is important reference for a period of 5-7 years.
6 chapters have been identified like in the editions of 2004 and 2010.
1. Hadron Physics. Diego Bettoni (Ferrara) + Hartmut Wittig (Mainz)
2. Properties of strong-interacting Matter (Silvia Masciocchi & Francois Gelis)
3. Nuclear Structure and Reaction Dynamics (Elias Khan & John Simpson)
4. Nuclear Astrophysics (Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo & Alison Laird)
5. Symmetries and Fundamental Interactions (Klaus Blaum & K. Kirch)
6. Applications and societal benefits (Marco Durante & Alain Letourneau)
First draft presented in NuPECC meeting in Uppsala and later on in Vienna VERY ADVANCED
The town meeting to have the final public discussion will be hosted by GSI-FAIR in of January preparation for recommendations day before.

11. ISOLDE Laboratory Portrait
Tentative title: “Focus on exotic beams at ISOLDE: A laboratory Portrait ”
To be publish in J Phys G in 2017
Content:
Experimental facilities and methods (on invitation) pages
16 invited papers
3 invited contributions by theoretician: A, Schrenk, A. Poves , J. Dobaczewski
Articles by submission: expected 15 contributions
Timeline: Deadline: 1st of November
Information at the ISOLDE webpage.
Some contributions have been handled in , many has asked for 2 extra weeks.
Contact person in IOP Claire Fullarton:
We are very happy with the very enthusiastic response of the different people. We do not see any showstopper
Link in the ISOLDEwebpage

12. HIE-ISOLDE Phase I celebration
Celebration date : Wednesday 28th of September 2016
More than 100 people invited.
76 people participated in the lunch and many more in the aperitif and the presentation at the CERN Auditorium.
The full CERN directorate was present, the Belgian secretary of state for education, many council representatives, most of the ISOLDE representatives and directors of other labs: GANIL, Future FAIR.
Program: Chair by B. Blank
Few words by Fabiola Gianotti
Frederick Bordry: Introducing CERN
M.JGB: Presenting ISOLDE
Yacince Kadi: introducing the project
Mme Elke Sleurs representing the stateholders
Celebración el 28 de Septiembre de 2016

13. MoU New MoU sent in September 2016 for 2017-2019.
As it will have automatic renewal we consider important to reduce the period to facilitate the compromise and the update of annexes.
In the New MoU India and Ireland will not be members.
Still Bulgaria and Portugal in the pipeline.
Many countries has already signed the MoU: Denmark, France, Italy,…

14. Collaboration Budget Healthy situation Started paying 140 kCHF of loan
824 kCHF instead of 400 kCHF to finish paying the expediture on HIE-ISOLDE project until December 2015.
Presently 415 kCHF in the account
Greece paid 2012 and secure the funds until 2014.
Paid 2016: CERN, Ge, Sk, Sw, Be, Dk, UK, Po, Ro, SA
Support for Akira Miyazaki
Action taken: 1. Find an affiliation in Europe University of Manchester (thanks to Kieran Flanagan).
Financial support: Internal memorandum with the head of the RF group (E. Jensen) to provide the allowance for 18 months.
Request to Collaboration: 18 months at the rate of 2900 CHF/month

15. Building 508
The building is fully in function and heavily used as planned.
The building belongs to EP as we have the maximum occupancies.
The bottom floor except for the chemical laboratory
The heat in the top floor is higher than expected in particular in the Control Room.
We have had temporary cooler to alleviate the situation.
At the same time we have been working to get a global solution.
The solution is to use the chilled water to feed the devices.
Share cost by EP, BE, EN proportional to the surface. Secure funds from EP at the level of CHF. Probably extra support by the Collaboration will be required. Still I have not seen the budget although it is asked since July!
Plan to be done between February and April.

16. ISOLDE Visitors: >1100 in 2016

18. CERN
EN within the JRA RESIST  (56.000) euros
Target R&D JRA EURISOL ( ) euros
EBIS within JRA EURISOL  (31.200) euros
Chamber for irradiation JRA TECHIBA  euros
TNA ISOLDE: Users support  ( ) euros
Access cost  CHF
1+1/2 Year post-doc 2018 to design the MR-ToF for ISOLDE
A shared technician with EN. Help to cope with the safety regulations and with the higher complexity of the Facility. Project to be defined

19. PASPAG: Particle and gamma detection Olof Tengblad
JRA
TNA
PASPAG: Particle and gamma detection Olof Tengblad
PSeGe: AGATA detector + applications (Andres Gadea)
TheoS: Theory of Nuclear Structure & Reactions (Denis Lacroix)
RESIST: Resonant ionisation techniques for separators (Ian Moore)
SATNuRSE: Simulations and analysis tools (Nasser Kalantar)
EURISOL facility (all stages)
Yorick Blumenfeld
TecHIBA: Stable ion beams + medical isotopes (Faiçal Azaiez)
GANIL-SPIRAL2 (France)
LNL-LNS (INFN, Italy)
ISOLDE (CERN, Switzerland)
JYFL (Finland)
ALTO (CNRS, France)
GSI (Germany)
KVI-CART (The Netherlands)
NLC (HIL/IFJ PAN, Poland)
IFIN-HH/ELI-NP (Romania)
ECT* (Italy)
NEW NA
FISCO, NUSPRA (Ch Scheidenberger) , MIDAS (H. Koivisto), NUSPIN (S. Lenzi), MediNet ((ASTARTE+ Ion-Beam Therapy) P. Thirolf & G. Magrin, GDS (Grinyer), ENSAFF (S. Harisopulos), NuPIA (Nuclear phys Innovation)