News & Highlights 2024

  This report is a snapshot of GANIL's activities. It is also a signature, an open window on the complex and intense activities taking place at the laboratory, in pursuit of a rich scientific program, gathered into different thematics in…

The stability of an atomic nucleus can be measured by the energy required to dislodge its nucleons (protons and neutrons) from the outermost orbitals. In so-called magic nuclei, whose orbitals are fully populated, the energy required is generally greater. One…

A GANIL beam line was completely redesigned to transport low-energy radioactive beams (1 to 2 MeV/u), a range of new energies for GANIL radioactive ions. The new device allows to slow down the beams of the CIME cyclotron while measuring…

An experimental measurement recently identified a discrepancy between theoretical predictions and the observation of the helium 4 nucleus. The work of an international collaboration of theoreticians elaborated a different vision of the configurations of nucleons and their coupling in helium…

The helium 6 nucleus was proposed as a potential candidate to probe the neutron dark decay model. Due to the purity and great intensity of the ⁶He⁺ radioactive beam (up to 300 million nuclei per second) produced by the GANIL…

GANIL welcomes international scientists to apply to its new 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…