The ISS experiment was represented this year at the ISOLDE workshop by two excellent talks:

• Ben Jones (University of Liverpool and ISS LTA) presented the most recent ISS experiment on the 144Ba(d,p) reaction.
• Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory) presented the near-complete analysis of the 132Sn(d,p) experiment.

Many thanks to both Bens for their contributions!

The town of Wiesbaden in Germany recently hosted around 100 nuclear physicists, both experimentalists and theoreticians, to discuss the latest developments concerning direct reactions with exotic beams (DREB). The ISS collaboration was represented by a talk and a poster.

Patrick MacGregor, the current ISS fellow, gave a talk titled "Overview of recent direct-reaction measurements in inverse kinematics at the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer, CERN"

The city of Liverpool, UK, hosted astroparticle physicists, high-energy particle physicists, and nuclear physicists for a 4-day conference discussing the latest results. The ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer was represented by two ISS collaboration members at the University of Liverpool:

ISS experiments were represented at the ISOLDE Workshop both in-person and remotely:

The timetable of the ISS Workshop 2020 is now online. The workshop will take place on Zoom during the afternoons of the 20th and 21st July, European time. 

Almost 80 participants are registered and will be connecting from all over the world to here the details about 21 new proposal ideas. Updates on the progress of the experiment and discussions about the ongoing collaboration are also scheduled as part of the workshop.

News article from CERN with regards to the first publication from ISS. The experiment was led by Ben Kay from Argonne National Laboratory studying the ²⁰⁶Hg(d,p)²⁰⁷Hg reaction. The results are published in Physical Review Letters.

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/isolde-steps-unexplored-region-nuclear-chart

The second ISS workshop took place in Liverpool from the 27th-28th August 2019.

All of the talks from the event can be found at the Indico page here: https://indico.cern.ch/e/ISSWorkshop2019

STFC have ran a news piece about our successful experiments studying 29Mg and 207Hg in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory.

Check it out here: https://stfc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/whats-happening/exploring-uncharted-territory-with-a-little-help-from-your-friends/

Check out the updates from CERN's news item as HIE-ISOLDE reaches completion of phase 2, paving the way for the first experiments using ISS to take place next month!

https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/hie-isoldes-phase-2-reaches-completion

Following the news piece run by CERN here, Gizmodo spoke to us to get further info on what we were planning to do with the magnet. The article can be found here.