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ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting 2026 25th to 27th November This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best posters […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2026 The 2026 issue of the ISOLDE Newsletter is available here

ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 2025 3rd to 5th December This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best posters […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2025 The 2025 issue of the ISOLDE Newsletter is available via https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-newsletter-2025

ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 2024 27th – 29th November This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best posters […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2024 The 2024 issue of the ISOLDE Newsletter is available via https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-newsletter-2024.

ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 2023 29th November – 1 December This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2023 The 2023 edition of the ISOLDE Newsletter is now available via https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-newsletter-2023 .

ISOLDE Open data Policy The ISOLDE Open data Policy was approved by the ISOLDE Collaboration Committee (ISCC) on the 15th June 2023. It applies to all projects approved by the INTC to run at the ISOLDE Facility. The document sets out an “Open Data Policy for the ISOLDE Collaboration”, followed by advice to spokespersons of […]

ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock The observation at CERN’s nuclear physics facility of a long-sought decay of the thorium-229 nucleus in a solid-state system is a key step towards a clock that could outclass today’s most precise atomic clocks. Click here for more details.

ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 2022 30th November – 2 December This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by CAEN, will be awarded for the best young speakers and the best […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2022 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2022 is now available below:

Covid-19 Information related to Covid-19 at CERN can be found https://hse.cern/covid-19-information .

ISOLDE Newsletter 2021 The ISOLDE newsletter for 2021 is now available below.

BREXIT: Implications for CERN users from the UK Visa for taking up residence in France or Switzerland only for UK citizens: If you are coming for less than 90 days per period of 180 days: No visa or work permit required for France or Switzerland but a convention d’accueil will be required (equivalent to a […]

USER Access to CERN in 2021 ALL Users require approval email to come on site (Only applies if CERN Covid level is 3 or 4 https://hse.cern/covid-19-information ) Due to Covid-19 restrictions, at present Users are only allowed to access the CERN site if their presence is considered essential and has been approved via email by […]

ISOLDE Workshop 2020 Prize Winners At the 2020 ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting held on-line 26-27 November, the CAEN sponsored prizes for the Best Young Speaker were awarded to O. Poleshchuk and P.T. MacGregor while the Best Poster prize was given to S. Kraemer.

ISOLDE feature article in the CERN Courier The latest CERN Courier has a feature article of recent ISOLDE highlights. Read it here: https://cerncourier.com/a/exploring-nuclei-at-the-limits/

ISOLDE-EPIC Workshop 24-25 November 2020 The aim of the ISOLDE-EPIC workshop is to bring together the ISOLDE community with the CERN teams providing (proton and RIB) beams to ISOLDE in order to discuss the next upgrades of CERN’s low-energy nuclear physics facility, by making use of the LIU upgrades that are currently being realized (2 […]

ISOLDE Workshop 26-27 November 2020 This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. This year’s event will be held online and will prioritize young (PhD and post-doc) speakers, to present their latest (preferably published) […]

Covid-19: User access to CERN As well as registering as a CERN User, in order to access the CERN site, you will need to take the following two extra steps: For more information about Covid-19 measures at CERN see https://cds.cern.ch/record/2718608/files/COVID-19_QuickRefGuide.pdf

ISOLDE Newsletter 2020 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2020 is available below.

ISOLDE-EPIC Workshop 3-4 Dec. 2019 For more details about this event please see https://indico.cern.ch/event/838820/ .

ISOLDE Workshop 5-6 Dec. 2019 This workshop aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. For more details about abstract submission and registration see https://indico.cern.ch/event/829302/overview​ . This event will be preceded by the first ISOLDE-EPIC Workshop. […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2019 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2019 is now available.

Lise Meitner Calendar Nuclear Physics News An article entitled “Remembering Lise Meitner”, written by Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke, has recently been published in Nuclear Physics News https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/xDhGN34672An3EpZF9BE/full .

ISOLDE Workshop 5-7 Dec. 2018 – Abstract submission open The 2018 ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting will be held at CERN from the 5th to 7th December. Registration and abstract submission for the event is now open via http://indico.cern.ch/e/ISOLDEWORKSHOP2018

ISOLDE Newsletter 2018 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2018 is now available below. Correction made to Newsletter: Page 3, Section "Schedule 2018", should read "ISOLDE will have protons available for physics from April 9th till November 12th"

EMIS 2018 – Abstract submission open The abstract submission and registration for the EMIS 2018 conference are now open via the conference website https://indico.cern.ch/e/EMIS2018 . Deadline for submitting abstracts is 15th March 2018.

Important: Dosimeters at ISOLDE Due to the fact that access to the ISOLDE hall is now via dosimeter, the CERN dosimeters of ISOLDE Users can no longer be left in the corridor near the ISOLDE offices as this is a security risk. Hence all the dosimeters that were left in the rack have been returned […]

ISOLDE Laboratory Portrait Published On the occasion of 50 years of Physics at ISOLDE, a series of review and topical papers on experiments and developments at ISOLDE in the past decade(s) have been published in a “Focus Issue” of Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. All papers are now available in ‘open access’ […]

EMIS conference to be held at CERN 16-21 September 2018 The International Conference on Electromagnetic Isotope Separators and Related Topics (EMIS) will be held at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, from 16th to 21st September 2018. The EMIS 2018 conference will be hosted by ISOLDE, CERN. EMIS is the flagship […]

ISOLDE Workshop 4-6 December 2017 The 2017 ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting will be held at CERN from the 4th to 6th December. Registration for the event is now open via http://indico.cern.ch/e/ISOLDEWORKSHOP2017 .

First African led experiment at CERN https://home.cern/about/updates/2017/07/ubuntu-powerful-motto-important-experiment

ICIS 2017, October 15-20 The 17th International Conference on Ion Sources, organized by CERN, will take place from Sunday October 15 to Friday October 20, 2017 at CERN and Geneva’s “Centre International de Conference” (CICG). Information and registration via http://icis2017.web.cern.ch/ .

Booking for reserved hostel rooms 2017 The booking form to be used for users who will avail of the ISOLDE group booking in 2017 can be found here. 15 rooms are held until one month before the experiment runs.

ISOLDE Newsletter 2017 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2017 is now available here.

NuPECC Mini-Workshop, CERN 10th March A Mini-Workshop will take place at CERN as part of the NuPECC meeting on the morning of 10th March 2017. More details can be found via http://indico.cern.ch/event/611038/ .

CERN computer account now available after Pre-Registration (PRT) completed When the pre-registration (PRT) has been completed for a new User, it is now possible to get a CERN computer account and, hence, complete the on-line safety courses required for access to ISOLDE before coming to CERN. Once the pre-registration is accepted by the CERN Users […]

ISOLDE Nuclear Astrophysics School 9-11 May 2017 Nuclear astrophysics is the study of nuclear-level processes that occur naturally in space. Notably, this includes understanding the chain of fusion events, or nucleosynthesis, that occurs in stars, and how can we recreate them in our facilities and compare them with the observables from space. The ISOLDE Nuclear […]

ISOLDE Newsletter – Call for contributions deadline 28th February We are looking for contributions to the ISOLDE newsletter 2017. If you are interested, please send your text and figures using the template below to jenny.weterings@cern.ch before 28th February 2017. If any PhD theses have resulted from the work please mention this in the contribution

ISOLDE laboratory portrait in preparation An ISOLDE laboratory portrait was published as a special volume of Hyperfine Interactions: HFI 129 (2000), in 2010 a brochure about ISOLDE was produced, and in 2011 a facility article was published in Nuclear Physics News. A new document entitled “Focus on Exotic beams at ISOLDE: A Laboratory Portrait” is […]

ISOLDE Workshop 7-9 December 2016 The 2016 ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting will be held at CERN from the 7th to 9th December. Registration for the event is now open via http://indico.cern.ch/event/561089 .

ISOLDE Newsletter 2016 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2016 is now available here.

ENSAR2 funding available 1st March 2016 The ENSAR2 project, within the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, offers financial support for external users of the ISOLDE facility. For more information about this financial support and the application procedure please see http://isolde.web.cern.ch/financial-support .

Group for the Upgrade of ISOLDE (GUI) Meeting 4th march 2016 A meeting of the Group for the Upgrade of ISOLDE (GUI) will take place at CERN on Friday 4th March 2016. The meeting website can be found here. More information about the GUI committee can be found on its website here.

HIE-ISOLDE Experiments workshop 1st February 2016 This workshop aims to discuss and identify the best physics cases for next year's beam time. Short presentations will be given where the physics cases of experiments are revisited, and the running conditions and limitations are presented. The building of the HIE-ISOLDE project continues and good results pave the […]

ISOLDE Coulex School 27-29 January 2016 Low-energy Coulomb excitation is one of the rare methods available to obtain information on static electromagnetic moments of short-lived excited nuclear states including non-yrast states. In the scattering of two nuclei, the electromagnetic field that acts between them causes their excitation. The process selectively populates low-lying collective states and […]

WITCH appears on CERN website An article about the ISOLDE WITCH experiment has been posted on the CERN website. See http://home.cern/about/updates/2015/10/witch-hunt-nearing-end-cern

ISOLDE Workshop 2-4 December The ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting 2015 will be take place at CERN from 2nd to 4th December. This annual event aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss future plans and ideas. Prizes, donated by […]

Change of CERN Mobile numbers from 24th June 2015 On 24th June 2015 CERN will change its mobile phone provider. Hence, from this date onwards, to call a mobile CERN phone number from outside CERN, remove the 16 and add +41 74 411 to the beginning of the number.

MEDICIS featured in UK newsletter MEDICIS is featured in the latest edition of the UK News from CERN, a newsletter written by Stephanie Hills from the CERN Press Office. It relates news and events with a UK twist or a UK perspective. In the case of MEDICIS, it is the involvement of NPL that is […]

CERN Short Term Child Care The “Jardin de Capucine”, a childcare facility established primarily for children of CERN personnel, including users, is very conveniently located only a few hundred meters from CERN’s entrance E (the «Charles de Gaulle Gate»), and offers childcare facilities for children from 4 months up to 4 years of age. The […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2015 The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2015 is now available here.

50th Anniversary ISOLDE Workshop – recordings and photos The ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 50th Anniversary Edition was held at CERN from 15th to 17th December 2014. At the special Golden Jubillee session held on Wednesday 17th December all former ISOLDE Group Leaders gave presentations about their time at ISOLDE. Recordings of these presentations can […]

TSR@ISOLDE Workshop 27-28 April 2015 The TSR@ISOLDE workshop will be held at CERN 27-28 April 2015. For registration and abstract submission see the workshop website.

INTC deadlines 2015 In 2015 there will be three INTC meetings: Wednesday 11th-Thursday 12th February , Wednesday 1-Thursday 2nd July and Wednesday 1-Thursday 12th November. Submission deadlines can be found on the INTC website. Please use document templates available at the INTC website and submit the documents online.

ISOLDE Workshop “50th Anniversary Edition” 15-17 Dec. 2014 The ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting "50th Anniversary Edition" will be take place at CERN from 15th to 17th December 2014. This annual event aims to bring together the present and prospective ISOLDE user community to review the status of the ISOLDE experimental programme and to discuss […]

ISOLDE Newsletter 2014 The ISOLDE Newsletter 2014 is now available here.

ISOLDE Nuclear Reaction and Nuclear Structure Course 22-25 April 2014 In these lectures the student will be given an overview of reaction processes such as elastic, inelastic and fusion at the energies relevant for the post-accelerated ISOLDE beams as well as direct reactions. The different information that can be obtained by studying such processes concerning […]

TSR@ISOLDE Workshop 14th February 2014 The installation of TSR, as an experiment to be included in the HIE-ISOLDE programme, was recently approved by CERN’s Research Board. Such a facility will provide a capability for experiments with stored secondary beams that is unique in the world. The possible physics programme has already been laid out in […]

ISOLDE Nuclear Physics Summer lecture series 23-26 July 2013 A series of four nuclear physics lectures given by Prof. Richard Casten from Yale University. These lectures will provide a simple overview of the structure of atomic nuclei, including empirical signatures of structure, the dependence of structure on proton and neutron numbers, the complementarity of microscopic […]

Shell Model Course for Non Practitioners 14-18 October 2013 Large Scale Shell Model is the tool of choice for spectroscopic studies in the modern nuclear structure calculations. It can describe simultaneously the spectroscopic properties and decay of odd and even nuclei in a given mass region. Being fully microscopic, it is as well perfectly suited […]