ISOLDE-experimentet vid CERN

Infrastructure: Isolde
Project title: ISOLDE experimentet vid CERN
Main applicant: Joakim Cederkäll, Lund University
Fellow applicants: Johan Nyberg, Uppsala University, Division of Nuclear Physics, Thomas Nilsson, Chalmers and Dag Hanstorp, University of Gothenburg
Grant amount: 2 800 000 SEK for the period 2023-2027

This application concerns the cost for the Swedish membership in the ISOLDE collaboration at CERN. ISOLDE, CERNs radioactive beam facility, provides beams for experiments in nuclear physics and atomic physics, including applications in nuclear astrophysics and fundamental physics, as well as in solid-state physics, biophysics and medical physics. The experimental activities at ISOLDE are governed by a memorandum of understanding between CERN and the members of the ISOLDE collaboration represented by the respective funding agencies. The memorandum was most recently signed by the VR Director General in the fall of 2016. The collaboration currently includes 15 countries and CERN. Sweden has been member of ISOLDE since its inception in 1967. ISOLDE is a part of CERNs general organization. It includes a user group of ca 500 university physicists with research activities at the facility. The user group is hosted in the experimental physics department of CERN. A local group with university physicists on temporary contracts at CERN is also housed in the CERN experimental physics department. The daily operation of the accelerator and separator infrastructure of the facility is carried out by a number of technical groups in the accelerator and engineering divisions of CERN. Experiments at the facility are approved based on scientific merits by recommendation of a program advisory committee to the CERN research board. The Collaboration provides support to assist approved experiments.