Description
The Super Separator Spectrometer (S3) is under development in the framework of the SPIRAL2 facility at GANIL. S3 has been designed to extend the capability of the facility to perform experiments with radioactive nuclei produced with extremely low cross sections, taking advantage of the very high intensity stable beams of the superconducting linear accelerator of SPIRAL2.
The S3 project involves the coordinated participation of a large international collaboration which includes 27 partner laboratories gathered around a common physics ambition, highlighted via Letters of Intent (LoI) submitted in 2018 and innovative technological developments.
The focus of S3 physics in the field of nuclear physics is the study of nuclei from medium-heavy mass at the proton drip line up to the super-heavy elements produced by fusion-evaporation reactions. S3 will investigate the properties and the decays of their ground and isomeric states. These studies will pave the road to unravel the strong and weak interaction at play in the nuclear medium.
S3 is presently in the installation and test phase, with experiments to commence in the coming years.