List of available infrastructures and beams

Beams

SPIRAL2 Superconducting Linear Accelerator
SPIRAL2 is a new facility which will open new horizons to research at GANIL. The SPIRAL2 LINAC (LINear ACcelerator) can accelerate lighter nuclei (protons, deuterons, helium) than the GANIL cyclotrons, thereby extending the research done until now. The linear accelerator is made of 26 accelerating cavities, enclosed in 19 cryomodules. It is composed of niobium and cooled by liquid helium. It also accelerates heavy ions up to nickel, at intensities 10 times greater than those currently available. This gain in intensity opens up new prospects. Energies ranges :

  • 33 MeV for protons
  • 40 MeV for deuterons
  • < 14.5 MeV/A for heavy ions

High intensities:

  • up to 5 mA for deuterons
  • < 1mA for heavier ions

More information available here.

Experimental facilities available at GANIL:

ARIBE

Inaugurated in 2005, ARIBE (Accélérateur pour la Recherche avec des Ions de Basse Energie) is a platform dedicated to interdisciplinary low energy ion research. The facility also clears the way for vast field of research and innovation ranging from atomic physics to biology and from nanotechnologies to surface treatments. ARIBE, a platform dedicated to interdisciplinary low energy ion research, provides researchers with an efficient tool for broadening their knowledge of the mechanisms, thanks to ongoing efforts by Pr. Dr. Bernd A. HUBER, Patrick ROUSSEAU and co-workers as well as by the CIMAP and GANIL’s technical staff.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Beam coordinator:
Patrick ROUSSEAU, e-mail: prousseau(at)ganil.fr
Experimental area coordinator::
Claire FEIERSTEIN-PLANCQ, e-mail: claire.feierstein(at)ganil.fr

D1

The cave D1 is an experimental room devoted to interdisciplinary researches with medium energy stable ion beams.

Managed by CIRIL platform and CIMAP laboratory staff, it receives ion beams accelerated by CSS1 cyclotron for the medium-energy beams and by CSS2 cyclotron for the high-energy-ion beams. The D1 cave is equipped by three beam lines.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Beam coordinator:
Vincent Pacary, e-mail: vincent.pacary(at)ganil.fr
Experimental area coordinator::
Toiammou Madi, e-mail: toiammou.madi(at)ganil.fr

D2

Experimental room housing the test bench for the SPIRAL target ion source systems.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Pierre Delahaye, e-mail: delahaye(at)ganil.fr
Technical coordinator::
Laurent Rousseau, e-mail: rousseau(at)ganil.fr

D3-D6/LISE

The LISE beam line [1,2] is dedicated to the production and purification of radioactive ion beams resulting from the fragmentation of the high intensity stable beams (typically 100 pnA of 12C to 136Xe ions) delivered by the GANIL cyclotrons at energies ranging from 50 to 95 MeV/u. The purification of the radioactive beams is achieved in three steps using the Brho-∆E selections, added to a velocity selection operated by a Wien filter in the LISE 3 beam line. These secondary beams can be delivered to three different experimental areas where standalone setups can be installed. Secondary reactions were also induced on these radioactive nuclei, such as Coulomb excitation, inelastic scattering and transfer reactions. The high selectivity of the spectrometer allows studying nuclei spanning from the valley of stability to neutron-deficient or neutron-rich nuclei up to A ≤ 70-80.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Olivier Sorlin, e-mail: olivier.sorlin(at)ganil.fr
Jean-Charles Thomas, e-mail: thomasjc@ganil.fr
Technical coordinator::
Vincent Morel, e-mail: vincent.morel(at)ganil.fr

D5

The D5 cave hosts one beam line which aims to host the INDRA multidetector.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
John Frankland, e-mail: john.frankland(at)ganil.fr
Technical coordinator::
Roman Revenko, e-mail: roman.revenko(at)ganil.fr

DESIR

The DESIR collaboration proposes the construction of a low-energy beam facility at GANIL-SPIRAL2 to study the properties of exotic nuclei in unexplored regions of the nuclide chart. Beam preparation devices including gas catchers, radiofrequency quadrupoles, high resolution separators and ion traps are under construction in order to provide high quality beams to the users. The DESIR Physics program addresses by means of complementary experimental techniques most of the current interrogations regarding the structure of exotic nuclei, the fundamental interactions driving their properties, as well as their formation in the universe.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Jean-Charles Thomas, e-mail: jean-charles.thomas(at)ganil.fr

G1/VAMOS

VAMOS (VAriable MOde Spectrometer) is a large solid angle ray-tracing spectrometer employing numerical methods for reconstructing the particle trajectory. Complete identification of reaction products has been achieved by trajectory reconstruction. Equiped with a versatile detection system, VAMOS is capable of identifying reaction products from diverse reactions using beams at GANIL. The angular acceptance of the spectrometer reaches 80 mstrd, while the Brho acceptance +/- 25%.
The spectrometer is often coupled to high efficiency gamma ray detection array like AGATA or EXOGAM.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Antoine Lemasson, e-mail: antoine.lemasson(at)ganil.fr
Technical coordinator::
Arnaud Giret, e-mail: arnaud.giret(at)ganil.fr

G2

The G2 cave hosts two general-purpose beam lines, G21 and G22, for use with the stable beams provided by the CSS1, CSS2 and CIME cyclotrons and the radioactive SPIRAL1 beams (CIME). The G21 beam line is typically used for the setups like the EXOGAM gamma ray array that can be coupled with the ancillary detectors like NEDA/N-Wall neutron array, DIAMANT charged particle array etc.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Abdelouahad Chbihi, e-mail: abdelouahad.chbihi(at)ganil.fr
Technical coordinator::
Franck Marie-Saillenfest, e-mail: franck.mariesaillenfest(at)ganil.fr

G3

The G3 cave hosts a general-purpose beam line for use with the stable beams provided by the CSS1, CSS2 and CIME cyclotrons and the radioactive SPIRAL1 beams (CIME). The middle size setups can be accommodated. The G3 beam line is typically used for the setups like the ACTAR-TPC.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Thomas Roger, e-mail: thomas.roger(at)ganil.fr

G4

The cave G4 is the specific cave to realize industrial applications of GANIL beams. One line (G41) is fully dedicated to industrial applications.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Technical coordinator::
Anthony Dubois, e-mail: anthony.dubois(at)ganil.fr

IRRSUD

At IRRSUD beamline, the available ions from Carbon to Uranium are accelerated by one of the injector cyclotrons (C01 or C02) at energy from 0.25 to 1 MeV/A with a continuous measurement of the ion flux during irradiation.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Beam coordinator:
Violaine Vizcaino, e-mail: violaine.vizcaino(at)ganil.fr
Experimental area manager::
Toiammou Madi, e-mail: toiammou.madi(at)ganil.fr

LIRAT

The implementation of a low-energy beam facility at SPIRAL was proposed in 1998 by G. Auger, B. Blank and C. Lebrun [1] with the aim to perform nuclear structure, fundamental interaction and solid state physics studies with radioactive ion beams delivered by the SPIRAL target ion source systems.
Since 2005, the LIRAT (“Ligne d’Ions Radioactifs A Très basse énergie”) line delivers the SPIRAL low-energy beams to the LPCtrap setup where fundamental interaction studies are performed. Alternatively, they can be sent to the SPIRAL identification station [2], or to the CIME cyclotron.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Jean-Charles Thomas, e-mail: thomasjc@ganil.fr

NFS – Neutrons for Science

More information available here.

S3 – Super Separator Spectrometer

The Super Separator Spectrometer (S3) facility is developed in the framework of the SPIRAL2 project. S3 has been designed to extend the capability of the facility to perform experiments with extremely low cross sections, taking advantage of the very high intensity stable beams of the superconducting linear accelerator of SPIRAL2.

More information available here.

Contact person:
Scientific coordinator:
Hervé Savajols, e-mail: herve.savajols(at)ganil.fr