ISOLDE Technical Coordination Meeting

Tuesday 15 Apr 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.

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_W15.docx

ISOLDE_W15.pdf

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)

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)

MEDICIS

Last Week

• VD-5 TaC testing in the framework of Patricija's PhD.
  • Terbium di-fluoride molecules with CF4 injection.
  • > 1 MBq collected and could have collected more - stopped for direct irradiation. No shippment was done due to NPL not able to recieve the sample.
• Direct irradiation of TaC for Tb run thursday-friday morning.
  • Temperature of the target reached ~120 oC 
  • Target #886M-VD-5 failed due to ion source short circuit.

 

This Week

• #880M preparation with ThC charge for anticipation of indirect irradiation over weekend
  • If proton beam does not exceed 2 uA
  • A need to anticipate 30 min for target change on thursday. MEDICIS is flexible with target change timing

 

Next week

• If #880M irradiated over weekend - testing of the target on FE
• MD runs for new CCM gas application and mass scans from VD-5 ion source target units
• 2nd indirect irradiation of the #880M ThC target from thursday
  • Preparation for Ra-224/225 collection
• Preparation of the pumpstand for the release studies (target change)

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

https://codimd.web.cern.ch/s/d1Sr2uoRn

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

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

Speaker: Oscar Fjeld (CERN)

14:55 → 15:00 Safety, AOB, visits

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)