News & Highlights 2025
News from 2025
October 10, 2025
Navin ALAHARI named a Fellow of American Physical society APS 2025
GANIL is proud to announce that Navin Alahari has been named a Fellow of American Physical society APS for the year 2025, one of the distinctions awarded by the American learned society in physics. This prestigious recognition highlights the excellence…
October 3, 2025
Measurements at SPIRAL2 for Nuclear Medicine
At GANIL (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds/CEA-CNRS), a one-of-a-kind particle accelerator has contributed to the development of targeted alpha therapy. Thanks to SPIRAL2, researchers were able to obtain precise data on the production of astatine-211, a promising isotope for cancer…
October 1, 2025
Scientific annual report 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 this report.…
August 29, 2025
“Profs au GANIL” welcomes its second class
From 25 to 28 August 2025, GANIL welcomed 19 teachers from all over France (and beyond) for the second edition of the ‘Teachers at GANIL’ course, in partnership with IN2P3 and Sciences à l’École, with the aim of introducing them…
August 26, 2025
GANIL hosts European Nuclear Physics Conference 2025
The sixth edition of the European Nuclear Physics Conference will take place from September 22nd to 26th 2025, in Caen. EuNPC 2025 is organised by the Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society and GANIL, and jointly by LPC…
July 11, 2025
Towards even more exotic nuclei: why ⁴⁸K is a key step
An international collaboration led by Surey University and LPC Caen has carried out an experiment to study the structure of 48K using the neutron transfer reaction: ⁴⁷K(d,p)⁴⁸K at GANIL. Thanks to the MUGAST+AGATA+VAMOS setup, nine new bound quantum states have…
June 26, 2025
ASNR approves continued operation of INB113 GANIL
Following the analysis of the periodic review conclusions report, ASNR considers that the provisions implemented by the GIE Ganil to control the risks presented by its installation are adapted to its challenges. It has no objection to its continued operation…
June 2, 2025
Call for applications 2026 Visiting Scientist at GANIL, France
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…
May 5, 2025
Artificial Intelligence futher enhances the VAMOS Spectrometer at GANIL
At GANIL, an artificial intelligence model based on a neural network now facilitates and improves the identification of nuclei detected in the VAMOS spectrometer. Operational for all experiments, it provides real-time data analysis while ensuring remarkable accuracy. The uncertainty on…
March 27, 2025
GANIL invites photographers to discover the LINAC and SPIRAL2 ion sources
GANIL takes part in the "Global Physics Photowalk 2025" international photography competition, coordinated by the Interactions collaboration. On 20 May, GANIL will open the doors of SPIRAL2's LINAC to professional and amateur photographers. LINAC is a new-generation superconducting linear accelerator.…
February 11, 2025
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Caterina Ciampi, nuclear physics researcher I work in the field of nuclear dynamics and thermodynamics within the INDRA-FAZIA collaboration. My activities at GANIL are experimental and range from preparing and directly participating in experiments to analyzing and interpreting the collected…
February 5, 2025
A remarkable quest in nuclear astrophysics
A recent review provides an in-depth comparison of the different experimental and theoretical methods used to access the rate of an emblematic reaction in nuclear astrophysics, affecting the quantity of fluorine-18 produced in novae. To measure the reaction directly, a…