Minutes from the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting February 27, 2014
No comments to the minutes from the ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting from February 13th, 2014.
TECHNICAL NEWS:
- Cleaning of the hall in now on-going. There have been a few complains about the work of cleaning team (schedule miss-match and in general the cleaning quality).
- Cleaning of the trench in the low-energy part of the hall is preliminarily scheduled for the next week.
- Eleftherios is taking a look into the ISOLDE controls software.
Target area, RILIS, target group:
- A few samples of the concrete wall from the target area were sent for the RP check. Since the material was not activated, the drilling between MEDICIS and target area can take place.
- The tests of the PAD-MAD system are on-going.
- A new ventilation system for the GPS was put in place.
- The ISCOOL, till now stored in the class A lab, was transported back to the hall and for the moment it is placed next to the IDS station.
- RILIS is planning tests of molecular breakup in the VADIS ion source.
- The target group received offers for the uranium oxide material from France and Sweden.
- The HRS front end was modified.
- The balloon 2 from the target area has been emptied.
Safety:
- The fire evacuation simulation will take place in January 2015. Volunteers for the emergency guides are needed.
- In the coming weeks Maria is meeting with Doris Forkel-Wirth in order to discuss the dosimeters situation for the ISOLDE users. The type of certificate needed, intended to be from the institution will be also addressed.
ISOLDE GENERAL:
- A new password for the isouser has been distributed.
- The Scientific Policy Committee (SPC) visit of the ISOLDE hall will take place Tuesday, March 18th, 2014.
- Prof. Mohamed Mebarki, a delegate from Algeria, will be visiting ISOLDE on Friday, March 7th from 11.40 – 12.10.
AOB:
- The tap water is again available in the ISOLDE coffee room.
- NDRA 2014 – Summer School on Neutron Detection and Related Applications is organized in Riva del Garda, Italy, from June 30th – July 4th, 2014. The school aims at illustrating principles, methodologies and most recent applications of neutron detection technologies. http://www.unitn.it/dii/evento/33970/ndra-2014-summer-school-on-neutron…
- Ecole Joliot Curie school 2014 on “Neutrons and Nuclei” will take place from September 28th – October 3rd, at “La villa Clythia”, Frejus (near Niece), France http://ejc2014.sciencesconf.org/.
- The next NUCLEONICA training will take place on April 10th – 11th in Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany http://www.nucleonica.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category%3ATraining
- Two prices founded by Caen Company will be given for the first time to young researchers during the ISOLDE workshop and users meeting in 2014. One price will be given to a PhD student and the second to a post-doc.
- The meeting was followed by a seminar of Prof. Alfredo Poves on “Variations on Nuclear Magic Numbers” http://indico.cern.ch/event/304641/
- Next PG meeting will take place at the usual place and time (March 6th), and it will be followed by a seminar of Jose Antonio Briz Monago on “Shape study of the N=Z and waiting-point nucleus 72Kr via beta decay” http://indico.cern.ch/event/302899/
Minutes taken by MS