1st International ARIEL Science Workshop - July 2011

[Science Division]

Dear Colleagues,

We will be holding the "1st International ARIEL Science Workshop" on 
July 7, 2011 at TRIUMF to match the timing of the summer TRIUMF Users 
Group AGM and Subatomic Physics EEC meeting.

The Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) 
[http://www.triumf.ca/ariel] will be TRIUMF's flagship facility that 
expands Canada's capabilities to produce and study isotopes for science 
and medicine. Aside from the e-linac that is already funded, the ARIEL 
project encompasses a second proton beam line for rare isotope 
production. Together with the existing proton target for ISAC, the 
parallel operation of 3 RIB production targets at TRIUMF will enable a 
broad spectrum of world-class science.

The scope of this first ARIEL Science Workshop is: to provide the 
international subatomic and materials science communities with a sense 
of the capabilities available at ARIEL and ISAC as well as possible 
implementation scenarios and time lines for various aspects of the 
project (e-linac, targetry, RIB delivery, proton beam line); to identify 
unique and world-leading scientific opportunities for the RIB program of 
ARIEL and ISAC in all phases of the ARIEL project; and to identify the 
best implementation scenario allowing for maximum scientific impact of 
the facility throughout the developments towards full operation of 2 
proton beam lines and the e-linac in parallel.

We invite the community to participate in this workshop. In particular 
we are soliciting contributions on the science questions that 
researchers would like to address by using ARIEL at ISAC. Time in the 
workshop will be reserved for oral presentations from the community. We 
envision a series of contributed short oral presentations which address 
what ARIEL needs to deliver in order to enable the science. The details 
of oral and other presentations will be determined once the 
contributions are received. The workshop will include international 
invited speakers, primarily with expertise on the implementation of 
effective science programs at ISOL facilities similar to ARIEL.

In the coming weeks you may refer to 
https://indico.triumf.ca/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1294 for details on 
participation, registration, abstract submission, and the agenda. A call 
for abstracts will come out separately with a deadline of June 1, 2011. 
The organizing committee will review these abstracts for oral or other 
presentations, and a final agenda will be generated by June 15, 2011. 
For more information and to register please visit our webpage at 
http://www.triumf.ca/home/upcoming-events/tug-agm-1st-international-ariel-science-workshop.

We look forward to your participation.

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee
Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri, Chair
Greg Hackman, Co-Chair
Kim Chow
Barry Davids
Gerald Gwinner