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| Description | GANIL (Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds) was created, on equal terms, by funding agencies which have collaborated towards its construction and operation: CEA/DSM and CNRS/IN2P3. Its legal form is a Group of Economical Interest (GIE).The CEA and CNRS are the two parent institutions of the GANIL laboratories. The region of Basse-Normandie supported this project with a substantial funding required for the construction. The decision to start the project was in August 1975, and the first experiment was carried out in January 1983. Since the very beginning, GANIL has actively participated in European projects with many cooperations with laboratories from the European Union and beyond. GANIL is one of the five largest laboratories in the world dedicated to research using ion beams. The fields of experimentation range from radiotherapy to physics of the atom and its nucleus, from condensed matter to astrophysics. In nuclear physics, work at GANIL has led to numerous discoveries related to the atomic nucleus, to its thermal and mechanical properties, and to so-called exotic nuclei, which do not exist naturally on Earth. Tomorrow's physics is under construction at GANIL. The future SPIRAL2 linear accelerator will produce light and heavy exotic nuclei at extremely high intensities. These entirely new particle beams will make it possible to explore the boundaries of matter. GANIL-SPIRAL2 is a project on the ESFRI Roadmap of Research Infrastructures (RIs) of pan-European interest. |
| URL | http://www.ganil-spiral2.eu/ |
| Status | Operational since 1983 Under construction since 2015 |
| Scientific Domains | Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| RI Categorization | Nuclear Research Facilities |
| Location | Boulevard Henri Becquerel, Caen, 14076, Basse-Normandie, France |
| MERIL URL | http://portal.meril.eu/meril/view/facilitys/15527 |
