ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting (PGM) and Seminar

Thursday 29 Jan 2026, 14:00 → 15:15 Europe/Zurich

508/1-001 (CERN)

14:00 → 14:10 General announcements

Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN)

14:10 → 14:15 Safety announcements

Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN)

14:15 → 14:20 Visits

Rota to be found on: https://cernbox.cern.ch/s/qbqEUB41tAvAzWa

Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Victoria Vedia (CERN)

14:20 → 14:25 Physics of last week

Speaker: Hanne Heylen (CERN)

14:25 → 14:30 AOB

Speakers: Amy Sparks, Carlotta Porzio (CERN), Christoph Schweiger (Max Planck Society (DE)), Hanne Heylen (CERN), Jessica Warbinek (CERN), Juliana Schell (Institut Fur Materialwissenschaft Universität Duisburg-Essen (DE)), Liss Vazquez Rodriguez (Max Planck Society (DE)), Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN), Magdalena Kowalska (CERN), Patrick MacGregor (CERN), Peter Plattner, Tim Enrico Lellinger (CERN, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (DE)), Victoria Vedia (CERN)

14:30 → 15:15 ISOLDE seminar or Physics presentation by local group

Title: Deformation in A=144 isobars via Coulomb excitation using the Miniball array
Speaker: Josh Curry (University of Liverpool, UK)
Abstract: Safe Coulomb excitation measurements with Miniball in the IS708 experiment at ISOLDE were used to study predicted octupole deformation in neutron-rich ¹⁴⁴Ba, as well as other A=144 isobars that appeared as beam contaminants. Preliminary analysis shows population of several low-lying collective states - including new observations in ¹⁴⁴Cs. Extraction of E2 and E3 matrix elements using GOSIA will be performed to give a better understanding of the shapes and collectivity of these neutron rich nuclei.

Speakers: Carlotta Porzio (CERN), Hanne Heylen (CERN), Jessica Warbinek (CERN)