Speaker
Description
The GANIL facility has a wide range beams ranging from intense stable and short-lived unstable beams (ISOL and fragmentation) including a variety of unique and state of art equipments. These are used to study the evolution of the properties of the quantum many body system, the nucleus, as a function of the three axis of nuclear physics namely excitation energy, angular momentum and the asymmetry of neutrons and protons.
In this talk we will introduce the facility and give an overview of the arsenal of tools and their upgrades at GANIL that provide new vistas for searching and understanding the simple and regular patterns that are found in the structure of complex nuclei and also to understand the dynamics of colliding nuclei. Highlights of recent results will be presented. The talk will also highlight among others the recent experiments done using the AGATA gamma array especially with the VAMOS spectrometer. The potential of the production of new isotopes around and beyond the neutron shell N=126 for nuclei below Pb by multinucleon transfer will also be shown. The current status of the of LINAC along with the associated equipment (SPIRAL2 phase 1) and future plans will also be discussed.
