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The ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer was fully commissioned in 2021 with the new silicon array developed by the University of Liverpool installed. This array makes use of double-sided silicon strip detectors, with ASIC readout, to determine the position of interaction and the energy of light ejectiles when they return to the beam axis following reactions of HIE-ISOLDE accelerated beams with a light ion target.
ISS has now completed two full physics campaigns focussing on measurements of the ($d$,$p$) reaction to probe single-neutron behaviour in various systems. Highlights have included, but are not limited to; measurements of the evolution of single-neutron properties outside $N$=126 ,with a measurement of the $^{212}$Rn($d$,$p$) reaction, and $N$=16 with a study of states populated in $^{27}$Na; probing single-particle structure in to the $N$=20 island of inversion with a measurement of the fragmentation of strength in $^{31}$Mg; a study of $^{12}$Be probed via a measurement of the $^{11}$Be(d,p) reaction populating final states above the Sn and S2n energies.
This talk will give an overview of the commissioning of the ISS detectors and a summary of the physics campaigns from the last two years.
