On HRS, the first HIE-ISOLDE run of this year took place. Thanks to the efforts of all technical teams involved, physics at HIE-ISOLDE started already on Thursday, one day earlier than the official start. For the run, ¹⁴⁴Cs beams were sent to Miniball at 4.7 MeV/u to study octupole correlations by measuring lifetimes of excited states. It was the first time that the so-called plunger technique was successfully employed at Miniball. Since on Monday morning, when the run was originally supposed to stop, they had not yet managed to measure new physics, it was agreed that they could continue until Tuesday morning. This allowed them to complete the physics programme, for which they were very grateful.
Summer party: Tuesday 8/7