Swift heavy ion irradiation and applications : a general overview

Séminaire IPAG de Basile Augé (IPAG), jeudi 30 janvier 2020, 11h00, IPAG seminar room

Based in Caen (Normandy), the large national heavy-ion accelerator (GANIL – Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds) can produce and accelerate beams from carbon to uranium up to 100 MeV / nucleon energies. These ions are used by many experimenters covering a wide variety of research fields : nuclear physics, material physics, medical physics, nuclear astrophysics, astrochemistry...
I will present various experiments which have been, are or will be carried out in these disciplines with a particular attention for those of astrochemistry and more particularly those concerning the production in laboratory of extraterrestrial-like organic matter.