The DESIR physics case has been outlined in detail in the Letter of Intent submitted to the SPIRAL2 Scientific Advisory Committee in 2006. A few selected cases from this Letter of Intent are presented here which are meant to give a flavor of the physics opportunities with DESIR.
In addition, a short and long version of the Letter of Intent can be downloaded by consulting this page : http://www.cenbg.in2p3.fr/desir/-DESIR-Letter-of-intent-
Low-energy beams from the two SPIRAL2 productions caves, from S3 and from SPIRAL1 will be cooled and bunch in an RFQ to provide good optical and timing properties. They will be delivered to the different experimental setups implemented in the DESIR Hall via a high-resolution mass seperator. They consists in trapping devices devoted to mass measurements (MLLTrap), to trap assisted spectroscopy and to fundamental research studies (KVI setup), as well as in laser a spectroscopy setup (LUMIERE) and in a decay-spectroscopy setup (BESTIOL).
A technical description of the whole DESIR facility is given in the technical design report.
The DESIR collaboration is composed of those colleagues who have signed the DESIR Technical Design Report. The different countries are listed below (more information at ).
Belgium: University of Brussels; University of Leuven
Bulgaria: INRNE, Sofia
France: CEA ; LNHB ; IRFU/SPhN ; CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan ; CSNSM, Orsay ; GANIL, Caen ; IPHC, Strasbourg ; IPN, Orsay ; LPC, Caen ; LPSC, Grenoble ; ILL, Grenoble
Finland: University of Jyväskylä
Germany: LMU München ; GSI, Darmstadt ; University of Greifswald ; Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
Hungary: INR Debrecen
India: BARC, Mumbai
Italy: INFN, Legnaro
Netherlands: KVI, Groningen
Romania: NIPNE, Bucharest
Russia: PNPI St. Petersburg
Serbia: Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade
Spain: CIEMAT, Madrid ; IEM, CSIC, Madrid ; University of Huelva ; University Complutense of Madrid ; IFIC, CSIC, Valencia
Switzerland: ISOLDE-CERN
United Kingdom: CCLRC, Daresbury ; University of Edinburgh ; University of Manchester ; University of Surrey
Scientific coordinator (GANIL): Jean-Charles Thomas – jean-charles.thomas@ganil.fr