ISOLDE Physics Group Meeting (PGM) and Seminar

Thursday 2 Jul 2026, 14:00 → 15:15 Europe/Zurich

508/1-001 (CERN)

14:00 → 14:10 General announcements

Newsletter, outreach

CERN matters

Budget and administration

Technical

General
- ISOLDE summer party: Wed July 8th
- Pool of chemicals was moved (Ethanol, Aceton, Methanol, Isopropanol, Ethylene glycol)
- isouser password was changed

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

ISOLDE_pool.png

14:10 → 14:15 Overview of ISOLDE activities

https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-hall-activities-ls3

14:15 → 14:20 Safety announcements

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

14:20 → 14:25 Visits

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

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

14:25 → 14:30 AOB

Photos for corridor: https://cernbox.cern.ch/s/WPzjPyTeuGDGXFM

Summer student talks – here is the calendar (will also be circulated again via email): https://cernbox.cern.ch/external-ms365/public/n05cgb3FhUv455w/ISOLDE_summer_student_talks_2026.xlsx?contextRouteName=files-public-link&contextRouteParams.driveAliasAndItem=public%2Fn05cgb3FhUv455w&contextRouteQuery.fileId=n05cgb3FhUv455w

ISOLDE elogs

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 (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics), Victoria Vedia (CERN)

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

Title: Geometry update of HiRadMat Beam Dump FLUKA model
Speaker: Lorenzo Forlani (CERN)
Abstract: This presentation aims to illustrate the update of the FLUKA model of the HiRadMat facility, located in the TNC tunnel in the former West Area of CERN, to provide a useful tool for radiation protection studies and comparison with the experimental results. In particular, the work focused on updating the facility dump geometry model, which was changed in 2021. This has been done using two approaches: the traditional geometry construction method, based on the definition of bodies on FLUKA, and an innovative one, consisting of an unstructured mesh creation and import. These two models were then compared to the previous geometry model by both observing the differences in the particle fluence spectra over the tunnel section (for different particle types) and comparing the fluence values integrated over the solid angle and energy spectrum.

Speakers: Annie Dolan, Carlotta Porzio (CERN), Hanne Heylen (CERN)

HRMT_presentation_off_ISOLDE.pdf

HRMT_presentation_off_ISOLDE.pptx

HRMT_presentation_off_ISOLDE.pptx