Actualités du GANIL
Science Day - 16 November 2009In line with an annual tradition, GANIL will participate in the French Science Day events, and will present its activities at Caen's Science Village. |
Symposium 2009 - 06 September 2009The 16th "GANIL Symposium" (Colloque GANIL) will take place from the 6th to the 11th September 2009 in Giens (France). |
Probing the nucleus by peeling it - 22 May 2009To improve interpretation of experimental results using atomic nuclei, two researchers working at GANIL and IPN-Orsay have developed a model, which enables "real time" monitoring of the nuclear breakups produced by a particle accelerator. |
Understanding stellar explosions is less straightforward than previously thought - 27 April 2009Stellar explosions called novæ are caused by nuclear reactions between the star's atoms. In order to better understand such violent phenomena, astrophysicists study the radiation emitted by certain types of atom, and in particular the fluorine-18 produced by these reactions. Now, researchers at GANIL, in collaboration with teams from the UK, Belgium, Romania and France, have determined that fluorine-18 appears to be less abundant than expected. This discovery therefore reduces the chances of observing the radiation emitted by this atom. It implies new constraints for the observation and understanding of novæ. |
The astonishing regularity of atomic nuclei - 27 March 2009Three researchers working at the University of Huelva (Spain), at the Hebraic university of Jerusalem and at GANIL, have proposed a mathematical method for the improved characterization of the collective properties of systems as complex as atomic nuclei. |
GANIL 2015 - 09 March 2009The second GANIL 2015 symposium was held at GANIL's guest house on 9 March 2009. |
SPIRAL 2 week - 26 January 2009300 researchers in Caen for the SPIRAL2 project. |
A collaborative agreement - 06 January 2009The CYCERON Public Interest Group, the GANIL, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen et Centre de Recherche, (ENSICAEN) and the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (UCBN) have signed a first collaborative agreement aimed, in particular, at revitalizing the EP2I action, thus improving the detection and maturation of innovative projects within laboratories, and optimising the transition of these projects towards the incubation phase. |
High-precision probing of beta radioactivity at GANIL - 27 November 2008A team bringing together physicists from two French laboratories has successfully developed and tested a technique for measuring, with high accuracy, the emission distribution of particles generated by radioactive ions suspended in vacuum. This technique was used to probe the forces responsible for beta radioactivity with greater sensitivity. It will be used to reveal the possible existence of new interactions. |
GANIL's 25th anniversary - 06 November 2008GANIL celebrated its 25th research anniversary on the 6th and 7th November 2008, at the Caen Convention Center. |
French-Japanese workshop - 29 September 2008A French-Japanese symposium was held in Paris, from 29 September to 2 October 2008, to discuss the new nuclear physics paradigm. |
INTDS 08 - 15 September 2008The 24th world conference of INTDS (International Nuclear Target Development Society) was held in Caen from 15 to 19 September 2008. |
New nuclei of superheavy atoms at GANIL - 03 September 2008Thanks to the GANIL accelerator, a team of physicists succeeded in creating and identifying the nuclei of elements comprising 120 and 124 protons, whereas uranium, the heaviest of natural elements, has only 92 protons. |
Santa's miniatures - 19 August 2008Physicists at GANIL in Caen created a very rare species or Argon (Ar), containing 48 nucleons; that is, a nucleus with 8 more neutrons than the heaviest naturally occurring Ar on Earth. By using cutting-edge detector systems, and studying the properties of these exotic nuclei, which only survive for a fraction of a second, they discovered that an unexpected phenomenon occurred, which is interpreted by theoreticians as reflecting a triaxial form of the nucleus. |
Eurorib 08 - 08 June 2008The International Conference "EURORIB'08" was held from 8 to 13 June 2008 in Giens (France). |
GANIL and RIKEN sign a LIA agreement - 30 January 2008The CEA, CNRS and GANIL have signed a LIA (International Association of Laboratories) agreement related to the SPIRAL2 project, with the Japanese RIKEN laboratory |
Compressed stars - 28 January 2008Physicists working together on an international project led by the IPN in Orsay and the GANIL have, for the first time ever, successfully compressed an unstable nucleus, Nickel 56. This nucleus is not found on Earth but is present when a star explodes at the end of its life (supernova). This breakthrough opens up the possibility of compressing several hundred exotic nuclei, which have, until now, been inaccessible because of their instability. This will help us develop our understanding of how some stars are compressed before they explode. |
Signature of a collaborative agreement with India - 25 January 2008GANIL's chief director was invited by the French President to take part in the delegation, led by the French head of state, for the signature of a collaborative agreement with India in the context of the SPIRAL2* project. |
An exotic nucleus measured at GANIL - 15 January 2008A collaborative effort*, led by P. Mueller of the Argonne National Laboratory (USA), has brought the new and old continents closer to GANIL in order to measure, for the first time ever, using laser spectroscopy, the size of the charge distribution of the radioactive helium-8 nucleus. The size of this nucleus is found to be larger than that of stable helium-4, but smaller than that of helium-6, in spite of its greater number of neutrons. |
Discovery of hydrogen-7 - 19 November 2007A European team*, some members of whom are physicists at GANIL, has succeeded in characterizing the most neutron-rich isotope ever observed, hydrogen-7. For the first time in a laboratory, physicists have obtained atoms of hydrogen-7 by directing the most intense beam of exotic helium-8 nuclei in the world onto a revolutionary gas target. |
