Springer, The European Physical Journal A, S1(25), p. 397-402, 2005
DOI: 10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-165-2
The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses, p. 397-402
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-37642-9_109
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After the successful commissioning of the radioactive beam experiment at ISOLDE (REX-ISOLDE) - an accelerator for exotic nuclei produced by ISOLDE - in 2002 and the promotion to a CERN user facility in 2003, first physics experiments using these beams were performed. Initial experiments focused on the region of deformation in the vicinity of the neutron-rich Na and Mg isotopes. Preliminary results on the neutron-rich Na and Mg isotopes show the high potential and physics opportunities offered by the exotic isotope accelerator REX in conjunction with the modern Germanium gamma spectrometer MINIBALL.