News & Highlights 2026

GANIL welcomes international scientists to apply to its visitor program. The objective of this visiting-scientist program is to provide an international venue for research on nuclear physics, interdisciplinary research, accelerator and instrumentation developments. The program intends to strengthen and favor…

From May 17 to 22, 2026, GANIL hosted the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’26) in partnership with CEA, CNRS, the EPS Accelerator Group, ESRF, and SOLEIL. Held at the Deauville International Centre in Normandy, the conference brought together more…

The search for next shell closures beyond 208Pb, the location of the so-called ‘‘island of stability of superheavy nuclei’’ is still one of the most prominent challenges in nuclear physics. This paper summarizes the progress made for the heaviest nuclides…

The next GANIL Colloque will be held in France, in Vosges Moutain. It is co-organized by CEA Saclay and GANIL. Registration at : https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/37719/ Sessions will start on Monday morning, September 21st and end at lunch on Friday, September, 25th.…

Atomic nuclei can vibrate in surprisingly ordered ways. Even when they’re messy, vibrations  played a central role in revealing nature’s fundamental laws, from the swing of a pendulum to the vibrations of atoms in a crystal, to gravitational waves. In…

GANIL has won the first and second public prizes in the Global Physics Photowalk 2025, an international competition that celebrates physics research through the lens of amateur and professional photographers. The competition results were announced on February 12th during the…