Competencies

Resonance laser ionization and spectroscopy; target and ion source design and construction

Experience

Home to ISOLDE – a world-leading radioactive ion beam facility and MEDICIS – a new and pioneering medical isotope facility; 50 years of radioactive ion beam physics experience

Complementarities/ Commitments

LISA Coordinator; Lead (WP2); host of the CRIS and COLLAPS high resolution laser spectroscopy experiments; Training Kick-Off meeting; LISA-4-Society action

Competencies

World-class accelerator facility, high resolution collinear laser spectroscopy; gas cell-based laser ionization and spectroscopy; nuclear spectroscopy and materials analysis

Experience

IGISOL facility with unique access to radioactive; short-lived refractory elements via ion guide technique; over 30 years of RIB experience; pioneering collinear laser spectroscopy on cooled and bunched beams; integral part of a University physics department

Complementarities / Commitments

Lead (WP5); ESR supervision; host for Specialized Training in advanced techniques for production and study of actinides

Competencies

Resonance laser ionization and spectroscopy; purification, preparation and characterization of actinide targets

Experience

High resolution resonance ionization and spectroscopy of actinides; experience and infrastructure for handling all actinide elements; TRIGA research reactor; Multiple analytical tools (NAA; ICP-MS; XPS; REM; a-/g-Spec; Autoradiography; ...) for actinides/actinide targets

Complementarities / Commitments

Supervision of 2 ESRs; participation in WP4 and WP5; Leader of WP4; Specialized Training in nuclear chemistry and RIMS; Commitment to deliver targets to other ETN participants

Competencies

World-class large-scale accelerator user facility; experimental installations for research on actinides and trans-actinides; resonance laser ionization and spectroscopy

Experience

World-class radioactive ion beam facility; 35 years of radioactive ion beam physics experience; research program on actinides and trans-actinide elements

Complementarities / Commitments

ESR supervision; participation in WP2; host of a Summer School; hosts experiments on the in-gas cell and in gas-jet laser spectroscopy REGLIS facility; secondment of ESR7 & 11

Competencies

Spectroscopy of negative ions and in particular Laser Photodetachment Threshold Spectroscopy; production, transport and destruction of negative ions

Experience

Operating GUNILLA (University of Gothenburg); state-of-the-art ion beam system for photodetachment spectroscopy; designed GANDALPH, detector for photodetachment studies at ISOLDE

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision; will take part in development of CRIS facility; existing collaboration with CERN-ISOLDE (Sebastian Rothe)

Competencies

World-leading large-scale accelerator user facility; dedicated experimental installations for research on superheavy elements (actinides and trans-actinides)

Experience

Discovery of six new chemical elements; first direct mass measurements on heaviest elements; first laser spectroscopy in elements above fermium

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision; participation in WP5; host of online experiments for laser spectroscopy of the heaviest actinides

Competencies

Large-scale computation with focus on relativistic and QED aspects; predicting the properties of (super-) heavy elements

Experience

Experience in multiconfiguation (Dirac-HartreeFock) computations; evaluation and implementation of bound-state QED diagrams for many-electron systems

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision; participation in WP4; host of a Specialized Training on the fundamentals of atomic QED and quantum many –body theory

Competencies

High accuracy theoretical investigations of spectra and other properties of heavy and superheavy elements

Experience

Experience in relativistic coupled cluster and configuration interaction calculations of properties of actinides and trans-actinides.

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision; participation in WP4; host of a Summer School

Competencies

Resonant Laser Secondary Neutral Mass Spectrometry; spatially resolved ultratrace detection of actinides in the environment; radioecology; controlled area for handling all isotopes up to 106 exemption limits

Experience

Development of rL SNMS (lasers and coupling home built); first ever quasi non-destructive measurements of U, Pu, Sr isotope ratio on single µm sized hot particles

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision; participation in WP3; LISA-4-Society action

Competencies

Advanced solid-state laser technology research, development and production; specialized in widely tunable single frequency and continuous-wave (cw) emission lasers in the visible and near infrared wavelength range

Experience

Development and production of the C-WAVE, a unique and award-winning OPO-based, fully automated, tunable cw single frequency VIS + NIR laser system market released in its first version in 2014 and used e.g. for atom and ion trapping and spectroscopy research

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision; within WP2: Development of a turn-key solid-state tunable CW laser based on OPO technology with customized linewidth options and enhanced output power levels, all optimized for actinide research; short training visits

Competencies

Globally leading manufacturer of nextgeneration lasers and photonic systems; renown for ultrastable low noise high power systems

Experience

Developed SolsTiS, a class-leading laser for atomic and molecular physics applications and has extensive expertise in the acquisition; participation and coordination of IUK and FP7/H2020 projects, having participated in >45 IUK projects and currently being involved in 12 FP7/H2020 projects (leading 5 of them)

Complementarities/ Commitments

ESR supervision and secondment; within WP2: Development of a pulse-amplified Ti:Sa laser optimized for LISA activities

Competencies

Resonance laser ionization & spectroscopy; in-gas-cell and in-gas-jet resonance ionization; ISOL characterization

Experience

First in-gas-jet resonance ionization spectroscopy with radioactive ions; 40 years of radioactive ion beams physics experience with LISOL; connected to a network of university hospitals and medical research facilities

Complementarities/ Commitments

Lead (WP3); Training Office (WP6); 2 ESR supervision; hosting the Mid-Term Review; access to gas-cell laboratory for De Laval nozzle characterization