1. Technical News and Experiments

• IS467 : measured beta decay of 58,60-68Mn successfully. Some interruptions due to PS interventions.
• EBIS cathode broke down and needs replacment. Possible delay of IS430 11Be(d,p) with REX.
• A parallel experiment will look for beta delayed radiation from 11Be in the 20 degrees beamline.
• Lasers will be changed to Be  this week.
• 7Be and 172Lu collections will be done at GLM until REX becomes operational
• REX beam will be setup during the weekend.

2. A.O.B.

• Important dates :

- Week 49 : stop of both Front Ends (FE’s)

- Week 47 : start work on vacuum system (beamlines only available up to CA0)

- 07/12 : cooling water stop

- 27/02 : cooling water back

- 01/2010 - 04/2010 : installation new HRS frontend (FE#6)

- Startup of ISOLDE end of April - running period until end of November 2010

• For equipment that needs to be shipped soon, RP checks have to be performed as soon as possible, since resources from RP side will be very limited next year.
• ENSAR : Transnational Access  money might be available for ISOLDE;

 ISOLDE is involved in :

- the EURISOLnet network, i.e. R&D in view of EURISOL (coordination by Yorick Blumenfeld) ;

- NUTAPP : applications ;

- ACTILAB = research on actinide targets (coordination Thierry Stora) ;

- PREMASS : RILIS developments ;

Submssion of the ENSAR proposal in December, decision in March 2010. Possible start of contract September 2010

• NUPECC Long Range Plan

- CERN is not represented in NUPECC, however many people from the ISOLDE community are members of the working groups

-Key questions in Nuclear Physics and what to build in the next years

- Fields are : 1/ Hadron physics; 2/ Phase transitions 3/ Nuclear structure 4/ Nuclear astrophysics 5/ applications and 6/ Fundamental symmetries;

• New regulations for CERN staff : five year contracts and people can apply to any permanent contract inside CERN during these 5 years (after the end of their probabtion period) and several times.
• Yorick attended the focus group on “code of conduct” at CERN.
• ISOLDE workshop received 45 abstracts
• Welcome back to Gry Tveten with the new baby.
• SEMINAR by Oliver Kirsebom

Minutes by Jarno