Eur. Phys. J. A (2005) 25: 397-402
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-165-2

ENAM 2004

Coulomb excitation of neutron-rich beams at REX-ISOLDE

¹ Max-Planck-Insitut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
² Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
³ Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Köln, Köln, Germany
⁴ Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
⁵ CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
⁶ Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
⁷ Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
⁸ Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
⁹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
¹⁰ Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
¹¹ Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, UK
¹² Heavy Ion Laboratory, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland
¹³ Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden
¹⁴ Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
¹⁵ Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
¹⁶ Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
¹⁷ Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
¹⁸ Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Strasbourg, France

^* e-mail: h.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.de

Received: 10 January 2005
Accepted: 21 April 2005
Published online: 18 July 2005

Abstract

After the successful commissioning of the radioactive beam experiment at ISOLDE (REX-ISOLDE) --an accelerator for exotic nuclei produced by ISOLDE-- in 2002 and the promotion to a CERN user facility in 2003, first physics experiments using these beams were performed. Initial experiments focused on the region of deformation in the vicinity of the neutron-rich Na and Mg isotopes. Preliminary results on the neutron-rich Na and Mg isotopes show the high potential and physics opportunities offered by the exotic isotope accelerator REX in conjunction with the modern Germanium γ spectrometer MINIBALL.