Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL)

CAEN CEDEX 5

GANIL is a national research infrastructure that operates around a set of several particle accelerators. It offers a wide range of accelerated ion beams over an energy range covering six orders of magnitude, enabling scientists from all over the world to carry out experiments in a wide variety of fields. Research focuses on nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, irradiated materials and nanostructuring, molecular collisions and the interstellar medium, radiobiology and innovative techniques for imaging and hadrontherapy.

This exhibition is a response to the dual challenge of using images rather than words to "speak" about research and engaging in a dialogue with the public. Beyond images' pure beauty, they are also a research and investigation tool which enables scientists to decipher their own results. Photographs taken using all techniques - from cameras to drones and microscopes - offer another vision of research which can be surprising, unexpected, indecipherable and sometimes essential.

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