ISOLDE Technical Coordination Meeting

Tuesday 10 Jun 2025, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

508/1-001 (CERN)

14:00 → 14:05 General news, agenda review, minutes approval

• Minutes circulated for review
• quick update on robot incident and consequences for the rest of the run.

Speakers: Erwin Siesling (CERN), Joachim Vollaire (CERN)

14:05 → 14:20 Operation Report - REX/HIE ISOLDE update

Speakers: Alberto Rodriguez (CERN), Eleftherios Fadakis (CERN), Emiliano Piselli (CERN), Erwin Siesling (CERN), Joachim Vollaire (CERN), Miguel Luis Lozano Benito (CERN), Simon Mataguez (CERN)

ISOLDE_wk23.docx

ISOLDE_wk23.pdf

Photos_ITC.pdf

Photos_ITC.pptx

14:20 → 14:30 RILIS report

Speakers: Anjali Ajayakumar, Cyril Bernerd (CERN), Joachim Vollaire (CERN), Jordan Ray Reilly (The University of Manchester (GB)), Katerina Chrysalidis (CERN), Manikanta Elle (KU Leuven (BE)), Reinhard Heinke (The University of Manchester (GB)), Sebastian Rothe (CERN)

• discovered last week that one of the Ti:Sa pump lasers is not longer working. company has been contacted for support.
• no problem for upcoming Yb and Po runs, but needs fixing for the schedule later in the year.

 

today would have been Bruce's 45th birthday

14:30 → 14:40 MEDICIS & Building 179

Speakers: Charlotte Duchemin (CERN SY/STI/RBS), Edgars Mamis, Joachim Vollaire (CERN), Laura Lambert (CERN), Manikanta Elle (KU Leuven (BE)), Matthieu Deschamps, Patricija Kalnina (University of Latvia (LV)), Ralf Erik Rossel (CERN)

14:40 → 14:50 Targets, Schedule and Physics

Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Isabel Frank (CERN), Matthias Alexander Grasser, Simon Thomas Stegemann (CERN)

Physics

On GPS, ⁸Li beams were delivered to VITO for measurements of lithium-ion diffusion in the bulk and interface of solid-state battery materials. Everything was in place to provide the radioactive beam as scheduled, but due to the robot problems, the experiment had to still begin with stable beam at that point. As a result, their run started with approximately one day of radioactive beam delay. Despite some initial troubleshooting, the run progressed relatively well overall and it marks a promising start to the project.

Schedule

• Updated schedule until end of August:
  • 169Yb collection - TBC
  • 3 shifts of IDS -22O and 2 shifts for TAS (19N - TBC) weekend of 27/6 - 30/6 to replace 111mCd beam time in GLM
• Stable beam for ISS 
• Start working on last part of the schedule

14:50 → 14:55 Hall activities / Mechanical workshop requests

Speaker: Oscar Fjeld (CERN)

14:55 → 15:00 Safety, AOB, visits

• Proposal for the turnstile and side gate (new stairs)

Speakers: Alexander Schmidt, Alexandre Dorsival (CERN), Elodie Aubert (CERN), Hanne Heylen (CERN), Line Le, Melania Averna (CERN), Mia Au (CERN), Nadine Conan (CERN), Oscar Fjeld (CERN), Simon Mataguez (CERN)

20250606-B197-Tourniquet.pdf