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The HIE-ISOLDE facility began operations in 2016 and ran has delivered beams from across the whole chart of nuclides from 7Be up to 228Ra, accelerated by the four superconducting cryomodules to energies ranging from 2 MeV/u up to 9.8 MeV/u for 28Mg.
There are three permanent experimental setups at the end of HIE-ISOLDE's beam lines with the Miniball gamma-ray spectrometer taking most of the beam time until CERN’s second long shutdown (LS2; 2018-2021). The Scattering Experiments Chamber (SEC) is a flexible setup that concentrates mostly on reactions of light nuclei and the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer (ISS) is a newly commissioned setup designed to perform few-nucleon transfer reactions inside the 4 Tesla magnetic field of a former MRI magnet.
Miniball underwent a total transformation during LS2, returning to action in 2022. There has been a refurbishment of the HPGe detectors, including new cryostats, electronics and preamplifiers, as well as a newly developed data acquisition system.
In this talk I will present preliminary results from the latest experiment campaigns at HIE-ISOLDE, focusing on ISS and Miniball. I will cover exemplar physics cases around the doubly-magic 132Sn, studied using Coulomb excitation and one-neutron transfer reactions, shape coexistence in the neutron deficient Hg isotopes and single-particle structure outside of 68Ni.
