ISOLDE
  1. Kofoed-Hansen and Nielsen produce short-lived radioactive isotopes

    Danish physicists Otto Kofoed-Hansen and Karl-Ove…

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  2. Plans for an isotope separator are published

    (image: The isotope separator in 1960) Plans for…

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  3. CERN approves the online separator project

    On 10 April 1963, a number of European nuclear…

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  4. Synchrocyclotron shuts down

    (image: excavation work for ISOLDE underground…

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  5. First proton beams at ISOLDE

    (image: ISOLDE experimental hall. The magnet…

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  6. Plans to shut down the Synchrocyclotron

    (image: The Synchrocyclotron with the rotating…

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  7. First beams for ISOLDE target

    (image: The ISOLDE II experimental area) In…

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  8. New experiments in ISOLDE II

    New experiments are installed at ISOLDE II and…

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  9. ISOLDE III design is approved

    To maximize the use of the Synchrocyclotron (SC)…

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  10. The laser ion source, RILIS, is developed

    (image: The basic principle of the RILIS…

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  11. The Synchrocyclotron beam ends

    On 19 December 1990, at noon, the beam from the…

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  12. Inauguration of the new ISOLDE PSB facility

    The new ISOLDE PSB Facility has two isotope…

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  13. First experiment at the ISOLDE Proton-Synchrotron Booster

    First experiment at the ISOLDE Proton-Synchrotron…

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  14. First use of robots for target interventions

    Industrial robots are installed for manipulation…

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  15. New accelerator, REX-ISOLDE, goes live

    A new accelerator, REX-ISOLDE, is put into…

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  16. Radioactive laboratory of class A at ISOLDE

    (Image: A 3-D drawing of the Class A Lab…

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  17. ISCOOL, the RFQ Cooler and Buncher

    (Image: ISCOOL, an ion cooler and buncher…

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  18. HIE-ISOLDE project approved

    (Image: The ISOLDE beamline, equipped with…

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  19. Approval of the CERN-MEDICIS project

    (Image: Groundbreaking for the CERN-MEDICIS…

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  20. First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei

    An international team at the ISOLDE facility…

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  21. ISOLDE success culminates in three Nature publications

    In the middle of 2013 the success of combined…

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  22. The ISOLTRAP collaboration measures the mass of exotic calcium nuclei

    The ISOLTRAP collaboration publishes in the…

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  23. ISOLDE capable of producing radioactive ion beams from 74 chemical elements

    Radioactive ion beams from many chemical elements…

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  24. First radioactive isotope beam accelerated in HIE ISOLDE

    CERN's nuclear physics facility, ISOLDE,…

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  25. MEDICIS robot isotope production for medical research
    MEDICIS robot isotope production for medical research (Image: CERN)

    New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer

    The new CERN-MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected…

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  26. RILIS
    Lasers at ISOLDE. RILIS experiment (Image: CERN)

    ISOLDE reports about the shape of mercury isotopes' nuclei

    ISOLDE reports about a phenomenon unique to…

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