The TRIUMF nuclear structure program and TIGRESS

The isotope separator and accelerator (ISAC) facility located at the TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, is one of the world's most advanced isotope separator on-line-type radioactive ion beam facilities. An extensive gamma-ray spectroscopy programme at ISAC is centred around two major research facilities: (i) the 8 pi gamma-ray spectrometer for P-delayed gamma-ray spectroscopy experiments with the low-energy beams from ISAC-I, and (ii) the next generation TRIUMF-ISAC gamma-ray escape suppressed spectrometer (TIGRESS) for in-beam experiments with the accelerated radioactive-ion beams. An overview of these facilities and recent results from the diverse programme of nuclear structure and fundamental interaction studies they support is presented. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.