Workshop ISOL-France VIII
GANIL
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The goal of this eighth ISOL-France Workshop is to present the different advances of the ISOL-France community made during the period 2025-2026 and to discuss scientific perspectives and possible collaborations for the upcoming years. The workshop covers five topics: RIB facilities, decay spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and tests of fundamental interactions.
This year the ISOL-France workshop (March 16-18) will be combined with the workshop on Letters of Intent for the DESIR facility (March 18-20).

ISOL-France board members:
- Sarina Geldhof (GANIL)
- Louis-Alexandre Lalanne (IPHC)
- Vladimir Manea (IJCLab)
- Maud Versteegen (LP2iB)

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Welcome coffee 1h
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Introduction 15m
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Laser spectroscopyPrésident de session: Nathalie LECESNE (GANIL)
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Laser spectroscopy at FRIB 45mOrateur: Kei Minamisono (NSCL/FRIB/MSU)
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Tests in the GISELE lab and with the PILGRIM mass spectrometer 15mOrateur: Andres Felipe LOPEZ (PhD GANIL CNRS)
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Ion bunching optimization in S3-LEB and commissioning of the new quadrupole bender 15mOrateur: Maylis Brun (LPC Caen)
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Development of a new continuous-wave laser cavity and perspectives of FRIENDS3 project 15mOrateur: Valentin MARCHAND (IJCLab : Nucléaire - SDF)
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Design of a new laser-resonance chromatography setup for S3-LEB 15mOrateur: Tudor Stefan (GANIL)
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Recent results from CRIS 15mOrateur: Louis LALANNE (IJCLab)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Ion trapsPrésident de session: Pauline Ascher (LP2iB)
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Statut of the GPIB commissioning 15mOrateur: Corentin ROUMEGOU (LP2iB (CNRS))
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Update of the PIPERADE off-line commissioning 15mOrateur: Gauthier GUIGNARD (LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES DEUX INFINIS BORDEAUX)
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Recent results and developments from ISOLTRAP 15mOrateur: Maroua BENHATCHI
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Update on the HINA project 15mOrateur: Michele SGUAZZIN (IJCLab - CNRS)
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Discussion
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Decay SpectroscopyPrésident de session: Alejandro Algora (IFIC (CSIC-Univ. Valencia))
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Recent applications of the PGCM: from low-energy spectroscopy up to the LHC 45mOrateur: Benjamin Bally (CEA - ESNT)
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Recent results from ALTO-LEB 15mOrateur: Guillem TOCABENS (IJCLab)
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Neutron/gamma competition in the beta decay of 83Ga 15mOrateur: Elia NSEIR
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Coffee break 30m
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Decay Spectroscopy (continued)Président de session: Dr Damien THISSE (CEA)
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Total Absorption Spectroscopy: why we need it 45mOrateur: Alejandro Algora (IFIC (CSIC-Univ. Valencia))
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Results of a recent 106Cd experiment at Griffin 15mOrateur: Ludovico Lapo Luperi (CEA)
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Recent results from the SEASON experiment 15mOrateur: Mathilde Ragot (CEA)
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G-factor measurements with ISOL beams 15mOrateur: Franziskus Spee (IJCLab, Orsay, France)
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Lunch 1h 30m
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Precision Experiments and Fundamental InteractionsPrésident de session: Serge FRANCHOO (IJClab)
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Atomic and Molecular Physics with Lasers (at the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton): From Cold Matter to Fundamental Symmetries 45m
Laser-based atomic and molecular physics provides a unique toolbox for exploring matter at the quantum level, enabling both detailed spectroscopic studies and some of the most sensitive tests of fundamental physical laws. At the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, a wide range of experimental activities exploit lasers to produce, manipulate, and probe cold atoms, ions, and molecules, with applications spanning precision spectroscopy, molecular dynamics, and tests of fundamental symmetries.
In this seminar, I will give a general overview of the research activities of our group, with an emphasis on experiments involving laser cooling, cold atoms, cold molecules, Rydberg atoms and production of ions and electrons. A particular focus will be placed on our efforts to use atomic and molecular systems as probes of physics beyond the Standard Model. Low-energy precision experiments offer a complementary approach to high-energy particle physics, especially in the search for tiny symmetry-violating effects. In this context, I will discuss recent and ongoing work on electric dipole moment searches, including approaches based on atoms and molecules embedded in cryogenic matrices, which combine large particle numbers with laser-based control.
Overall, this talk aims to show how laser-based experiments on cold atomic and molecular systems at the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton contribute both to molecular physics and to the broader quest for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
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High-precision optical spectroscopy of trapped radioactive atoms: from Leuven, to Finland, to DESIR 15mOrateur: Robbe Van Duyse (KU Leuven)
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Results from the VUV spectroscopy of 229Th 15mOrateur: Skyy Pineda (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen)
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RF-laser double-resonance spectroscopy in a gas jet: results and perspectives 15mOrateur: Pierre Lassègues (LPC Caen)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Precision Experiments and Fundamental Interactions (continued)Président de session: Leendert HAYEN (LPC Caen)
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Update from the SALER experiment 15mOrateur: Driss GUILLET (CNRS)
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Update of the MORA experiment 15mOrateur: Marah Jbayli (GANIL)
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Update on S3 25mOrateur: Julien PIOT (GANIL)
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Discussion
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Cocktail 2h
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Welcome Coffee 30m
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Facilities and Beams - Joint DESIR/ISOL-France session
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Introduction 30mOrateur: Bertram Blank (LP2i Bordeaux)
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DESIR : Presentation and Status 30mOrateur: Jean-Charles THOMAS (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds)
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SPIRAL1 RIB Production 30mOrateur: Pierre Chauveau (GANIL)
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S3-LEB RIB Production 30mOrateur: Vladimir MANEA (IJCLab-IN2P3-CNRS)
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Lunch Break 1h 30m
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