LINO’s move to GANIL
On the morning of Thursday 16th of July, the LINO experiment, developed entirely by IJCLAB and commissioned at ALTO in 2019, was moved from Orsay to Caen. The truck arrived…
ALTO PAC Meeting 2026
The next meeting of the ALTO PAC will be held at the Auditorium Irene Joliot Curie of IJCLAB from the 31st of March to the 1st of April 2026.The international…
Commissioning of LICORNE source for SPACE ALTO
The commissioning of the new LICORNE prototype for the SPACE ALTO beam line took place on the morning of Friday, January 30. The new gas injection system for the target…
BioALTO : a new platform for developing tomorrow’s cancer therapies
All the details are available in the IJCLAB news section.
Commissioning of SPACE ALTO irradiation chamber
On Tuesday 15th of April, a 10 MeV proton beam was delivered to the SPACE ALTO irradiation chamber. Over the following days, beam scanning tests were also experimentally validated. Films…
Production of zinc beams at ALTO-LEB
In February 2025, during week 7, 3 months after the ALTO research platform was flooded, radioactive beams at 30 keV were once again produced in the ALTO-LEB area. Zinc and…
The MONSTER experiment installed for the first time at ALTO
After an extensive period of mechanical preparation, the implementation of safety protocols and the restoration of equipment following the October flood, the 39 detectors of the MONSTER (MOdular Neutron SpectromeTER)…
Ministerial visit to the ALTO research platform
ALTO had the honour of welcoming Philippe Baptiste, Minister of Higher Education and Research, on Tuesday, 28th January 2025 afternoon. All the details connected to this visit are available in…
Flood October 2024
On Wednesday 9th of October, a strong storm hit France and resulted in the flood on many buildings of the university campus, including, of course, those in and around the…
ALTO at RADECS conference
All the details are available in the IJCLAB news section.