In any measurement, three components contribute to the quality of the final result: the detector system, the beam, and the target. In the case of Solenoidal Spectrometers, which improve the experimental resolution of an inverse kinematics measurement by effectively countering kinematic compression, the other components—beam and target—play a critical role. In-flight beams reduce the achievable...
The ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer (ISS) at CERN was commissioned fully in 2021, following the second long shutdown at CERN, to take advantage of the exotic beams delivered from the HIE-ISOLDE facility at energies up to 10 MeV/u. It is designed to study direct reactions based on the solenoidal spectrometer concept developed in the HELIOS spectrometer at Argonne National Laboratory [1,2]. The...
