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MINIBALL is a gamma-ray spectrometer located on the first beam line
of the HIE-ISOLDE facility at CERN.
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Miniball represented at the HIE-ISOLDE Workshop 2026
Miniball represented at the HIE-ISOLDE Workshop 2026 The second HIE-ISOLDE Workshop took place from 20th to 22nd August 2026 in Göteborg, Sweden, and was organized by the local team from Chalmers University of Technology. The Miniball collaboration was well represented at the workshop, with numerous contributed talks delivered by students presenting their analyses, as well as two invited talks.
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Congratulations, Dr Max Droste!
Congratulations, Dr Max Droste! Maximilan Droste defended his PhD thesis at U. Cologne On 18th May 2026, Maximilian Droste, PhD candidate at the University of Cologne (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Reiter, successfully defended his thesis titled “Nuclear Structure and Collectivity of Neutron-Rich Tin Isotopes around 132Sn”. In his thesis, he presented an investigation
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Welcome back, Gulla!
Welcome back, Gulla! PhD candidate Gulla Torvund returns to CERN for an extended research stay After a positive experience during her research stay at ISOLDE in the fall 2025, Gulla Torvund (U. Oslo) returns to CERN for a 6-month research stay. During this time, she will work on the data analysis of the experiment IS774,
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The Miniball germanium detector array has been in operation at CERN’s ISOLDE facility since 2001. It enables a wide range of nuclear-structure studies using high-quality radioactive ion beams. Read more →