Earthwork for the Spiral 2 construction site was launched in January. In order to build the premises that will house this exceptional project as from 2013, aimed at producing totally unique beams, technical and scientific teams are working hand in hand.

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The aim of the new research programme, FUSTIPEN, focusing on exotic nuclei and based at the GANIL facility, is to create links between French and American researchers.

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CNRS Research Director in nuclear physics at the GANIL in Caen, Olivier Sorlin, aged 45, is on the hunt for the neutron

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With the construction of its new particle accelerator, baptised Spiral 2, GANIL is aspiring to the position of world leader in the new heavy ion race. Discoveries are in store that could well revolutionise nuclear physics.

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The Flerov Prize for 2010 was awarded to Sydney Gales, Director or GANIL since 2005, to Dominique Guillemaud-Mueller from the IPN* in Orsay and to Yuri Penionzhkevich from the JINR** in Dubna (Russia) for “their exceptional contribution towards the study of exotic nuclei. Read more »

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GANIL’s teams’ skills are being exported overseas. One of them has recently produced two detectors for the new spectrometer developed by its Japanese counterpart at the Riken research institute. From design to on-site installation, the entire operation was the work of a trio overseen by Jean-François Libin, a CNRS engineer based at GANIL.

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