CERNʹs longest serving experimental facility

The On-Line Isotope Separator ISOLDE has operated continuously at CERN since 1967. Today ISOLDE and its Post accelerator REX-ISOLDE, dedicated to the production of a large variety of radioactive ion beams with energies from 1 keV/u up to 3.1 MeV/u, are used for a great number of different experiments in the fields of nuclear and atomic physics, nuclear astrophysics, material physics and life sciences. The facility, originally located at the CERNs first accelerator Synchrocyclotron (SC), has been located at the Proton-Synchrotron Booster (PSB) since 1992. Long and outstanding operation of ISOLDE has had important impact on the evolution of nuclear physics and its applications. ISOLDE has been open to the international community since its early start. Every year the facility welcomes about a 300 international users, who participate in a total number of 35 projects.