Minutes from the ISOLDE Physics Group meeting on February 17^th, 2015

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Technical news

• ISCOOL:
  
  • Gas injection not to be installed yet. The parts are ready and ISCOOL is already closed.
  • Request for heavy stable beam for tests and systematics studies.
• The vacuum tanks (balloons) collecting radioactive gasses from the exhaust are going to be emptied and ready next week.
• The ISOLDE hall water system is not running yet.  Once the system is ready priority will be given to testing the HRS magnet.
• A new hall probe was installed in the GPS magnet. HRS hall probes are unchanged.
• REX:
  
  • The REX local ion source shows problems. The emittance meter will be installed.
• RILIS:
  
  • A new valve will be installed, requiring compressed air.
  • The HRS laser window has been ordered and is being delivered. To be installed next Wednesday
• There will be a meeting next Monday to define the amount of shielding needed in the ISOLDE water station.
• Uranium oxide has been ordered by CERN in order to refill the stock. 10-20 Kg are to be delivered once the licensing is cleared.
• ISOLDE cold (no beam) checkout has been scheduled for March 9^th.

Safety

• We will ask the new ISOLDE RP contact, Elody, to give a presentation for ISOLDE PH on the new “RP help”.
• There is still no place agreed to dispose waste chemical dyes used in lasers. To be followed up with the safety responsible Jonathan Gulley.
• Torben Molholt is responsible of the ISOLDE hall radioactive calibration sources as of Wednesday February 19^th.

B508 & B275

• Building 508:
  
  • The RP detectors for the solid state physics laboratory will be installed soon (Alexander Dorsival).
  • Heating, electricity and internet work. Phones have been ordered and will be delivered soon.We are studying the possibility to get the kitchen furnished at IKEA.
  • The closed water circuit is now finished. To be executed no later than mid-April.
  • The group leader asks for experiments to be showcased at the material science laboratory for the Portuguese government VIPs visit, March 6^th.
  • First floor door locks will be mounted with SB23 cylinders.
• Buidling 275:
  
  • Safety: Maria Borge is the new TSO. The yearly inspection will be done next week
  • Locks in ISOLDE rooms  will be changed to SC40. The main entrance will probably have an electronic card reader installed.

Conferences

• EURORIB to be held in Hohenroda, Germany, on the 7-12 June 2015. Deadline for abstract submission is February 25^th (https://www.gsi.de/eurorib-2015)
• EMIS 2014 at Grand Rapids, MI, USA, from May 11^th to 15^th. Deadline for contributed abstracts January 15^th (https://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=9140)
• PROCON conference, July 6^th to 10^th in Lanzhou, China. Abstracts to be submitted before April 15^th (http://procon2015.csp.escience.cn/).
• 34th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics "Frontiers in Nuclear Physics. (http://www.mazurian.fuw.edu.pl/)
• Isospin, STructure, Reactions and energy Of Symmetry 2015 (ISTROS2015), Casta-Papiernicka, Slovakia, from May 1^st to 6^th. Deadline for registration/abstracts is February 28^th (http://istros.sav.sk/).
• 12th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2015), Catania, IT. June 21-26. Deadline for abstracts February 28^th (http://www.lns.infn.it/link/nn2015).

INTC-ISCC committees

• February 20^th is the deadline for applying for beamtime in the April-October 2015 low-energy period.
• The new ISOLDE physics coordinator was selected in the ISCC meeting:
  
  • A shortlist of 4 candidates was selected from 17 applicants.
  • Elisa Rapisarda was selected [MK1] as the next physics coordinator.

HIE-ISOLDE phycist coordination committee

• HIE-ISOLDE will start physics campaign with 2 experimental beamlines. Beamline 1 will host MiniBall, beamline 2 will be used for movable experiments.
• The third beamline and “u-bend” connection to the possible 0^o spectrometer at the end of the current hall will be supported by CERN.
• CERN now requires HIE-ISOLDE user setups to provide experiment drawings to be integrated with the HIE-ISOLDE main drawing. Please contact Integration Services (Stephane Maridor).

AOB

-The ISOLDE separator course will be held at the end of March.

-The next meeting will take place at 14:00 Thrusday next week (26^th February 2015) followed by a seminar by Johanna Pitters on " Selective laser photodetachment in an RFQ ion beam cooler for AMS” (https://indico.cern.ch/event/372678/)

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