Dear colleagues,

As you may have heard, we are installing the new GRIFFIN (Gamma-Ray Infrastructure For Fundamental Investigations of Nuclei) facility for radioactive decay spectroscopy of stopped ISOL beams produced by the TRIUMF-ISAC facility. GRIFFIN consists of an array of 16 HPGe clover detectors for gamma-ray detection coupled with a suite of ancillary detection systems and a custom-designed digital DAQ system.

For more details of the GRIFFIN facility and ancillary detector systems see: www.triumf.ca/griffin

It is anticipated that GRIFFIN will perform initial experiments in the period September to December 2014 using 12 clovers. The array will be extended to the full 16 clovers and the facility coupled with neutron-detector arrays in 2015.

If you would like to join the GRIFFIN collaboration please sign up for the mailing list at http://lists.triumf.ca/mailman/listinfo/griffin-collaboration This mailing list will be used to announce collaboration meetings, calls for proposals, calls for beamtime requests and other GRIFFIN related news.

Adam Garnsworthy
Spokesperson for the GRIFFIN Collaboration