The ISOLDE experiment at CERN

This application is to cover the cost for the Swedish membership in the ISOLDE collaboration at CERN.

ISOLDE is part of CERN:s general organization for experiments and the activities at ISOLDE are governed by a memorandum of understanding between CERN and the members of the ISOLDE collaboration, represented by the respective funding agencies. The most recent memorandum was signed by the VR Director General in the fall of 2016.

The collaboration currently includes 15 member countries and CERN. Sweden has been member of ISOLDE since its inception in 1967.

The facility has undergone several development phases with the latest one being the introduction of a superconducting LINAC, in the HIE-ISOLDE project, in order to provide accelerated beams for reaction experiments.ISOLDE, as CERN:s radioactive beam facility, provides radioactive ion beams for experiments in nuclear physics and atomic physics, including applications in nuclear astrophysics, fundamental physics, solid-state physics, biophysics and medical physics.

The user group consists of ca 500 university physicists with research activities at the facility, and is hosted in the experimental physics department of CERN. A local group, lead by a senior university physicist, is also housed in the CERN experimental physics department.

The daily operation of the accelerator and separator infrastructure of the facility is carried out by a number of technical groups in the accelerator and engineering divisions of CERN.

Experiments at the facility are approved based on scientific merits by recommendation of a program advisory committee to the CERN research board. The collaboration provides support to assist approved experiments.