{"id":168,"date":"2021-04-07T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:31:21","slug":"la-page-daccueil-de-mon-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/fr\/la-page-daccueil-de-mon-site\/","title":{"rendered":"David Lunney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hi &#8211; welcome to my web page!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After many years of slinging protons around the McGill University cyclotron (and sinking pints at McGill\u2019s <em>Thomson House<\/em> grad pub) I was hired by France\u2019s CNRS to pursue real science. This I attempt by developing ion traps for weighing short-lived atomic nuclei (with ISOLTRAP at CERN and TITAN at TRIUMF) and dropping antimatter (with GBAR, also at CERN), linking the infinitely large and small.<\/p>\n<p>The mass of an atom tells us lots about its structure (via the binding energy, from Einstein\u2019s <em>E<\/em> = <em>mc<\/em><sup>2<\/sup>) and is interesting for related things like the cooking of elements inside stars and the interplay of quarks inside the nucleus.\u00a0 For more on mass measurements with radioactive isotopes, see the <a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"http:\/\/isoltrap.web.cern.ch\/\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">ISOLTRAP website<\/a> at CERN.<\/p>\n<p>As for antimatter, who could resist such a cool subject ?! With GBAR we are working on fabricating an antimatter ion (an antiproton with two positrons) so it can be cooled, neutralized with (almost) zero velocity, and dropped. This way we aim to test the Equivalence Principle of General Relativity (yes, Einstein again !).\u00a0 For the latest, see the <a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"http:\/\/gbar.web.cern.ch\/\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">GBAR website<\/a> at CERN.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Postal address :<\/h2>\n<p>Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay<br \/>IJCLab &#8211; Batiment 108 &#8211; Bureau J023 \/ Lab J030-1<br \/>15, rue Georges Cl\u00e9menceau<br \/>91405 Orsay, France<\/p>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Research Activities\u00a0:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>nuclear mass measurements with ISOLTRAP at ISOLDE<\/li>\n<li>testing Einstein&#8217;s Equivalence Principle with antimatter at CERN&#8217;s AD<\/li>\n<li>tinkering with ion manipulation devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Publication list :<\/h2>\n<p>Lien <a href=\"https:\/\/inspirehep.net\/authors\/999551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INSPIRE IJCLab<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Recent papers\u00a0:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4open-sciences.org\/articles\/fopen\/full_html\/2020\/01\/fopen200016\/fopen200016.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The origin of the elements and other implications of gravitational wave detection for nuclear physics<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-021-01326-9\">Mass measurements of <sup>99\u2013101<\/sup>In challenge ab initio nuclear theory of the nuclide <sup>100<\/sup>Sn<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"screen-reader-main-title\" class=\"Head u-font-serif u-h2 u-margin-s-ver\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0168900221002291\"><span class=\"title-text\" style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A pulsed high-voltage decelerator system to deliver low-energy antiprotons<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Recent outreach :<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/the-life-cycle-of-a-neutron-star-david-lunney\">Life cycle of a neutron star (TED Ed)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/where-does-gold-come-from-david-lunney\">Where does gold come from (TED Ed)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the TEDxCERN events of <a href=\"https:\/\/tedxcern.web.cern.ch\/speakers\/david-lunney\">2015<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/fr\/news\/news\/knowledge-sharing\/tedxcern-remarkable-elephant-room\">2018<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">CERN Courier feature articles :<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cerncourier.com\/a\/exploring-nuclei-at-the-limits\/\">Exotic Nuclei at ISOLDE (2020)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cerncourier.com\/a\/plumbing-the-depths-of-neutron-stars\/\">Plumbing the depths of neutron stars (2013)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cerncourier.com\/a\/isolde-goes-on-the-trail-of-superlatives\/\">ISOLDE of the trail of superlatives (2004)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cerncourier.com\/a\/spectrometry-provides-precision-for-the-masses\/\">Spectrometry provides precision for the masses (2001)<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-tadv-p=\"keep\">Recent\u00a0Seminar\/Colloquia\u00a0:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bordeaux &#8211; Nuclear Binding Energy, Stellar Nucleosynthesis, Compact Objects and (anti)gravity<\/li>\n<li>Universit\u00e9 Paris Sorbonne &#8211; The GBAR experiment at CERN<\/li>\n<li>CEA &#8211; True Stories of trapped ions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi &#8211; welcome to my web page! After many years of slinging protons around the McGill University cyclotron (and sinking pints at McGill\u2019s Thomson House grad pub) I was hired by France\u2019s CNRS to pursue real science. This I attempt by developing ion traps for weighing short-lived atomic nuclei (with ISOLTRAP at CERN and TITAN &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/fr\/la-page-daccueil-de-mon-site\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.ijclab.in2p3.fr\/david-lunney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}