[Narrator] Three years after the first beams were
delivered from the HIE-ISOLDE post-accelerator
at CERN's nuclear-physics facility ISOLDE,
the HIE-ISOLDE project is nearing the 
completion of its construction.
It's been an incredible journey with many challenges
starting from the initial R&D phase
up to the prototyping of the first component,
the first beams on our experiments, 
and now pushing towards the goal
of 10 MeV per nucleon.
There's still a few hurdles to be overcome
but we are on the right track.
[Narrator] With the near completion of HIE-ISOLDE,
the experiments at the three attached beam lines
are eagerly waiting for the more-energetic beams.
One of them is Miniball.
At Miniball we're studying
nuclear reactions using
exotic radioactive isotopes delivered from HIE-ISOLDE.
Here the main aim is to study
the structure of these nuclei, the individual 
protons and neutrons,
and also the collective structure or the
shape of the nuclei.
The high-energy beams from HIE-ISOLDE give more energy to the reactions that we're studying.
This higher energy gives us the
chance to go to either more exotic isotopes
or we can go to more exotic reactions
which allow us to study phenomena
which we couldn't before.
With this new higher energy now 
we've got the most exciting physics going on
that has ever been here
at this facility in my opinion.
And I think it's the
most exciting time to be around at Miniball,
particularly to be here at
HIE-ISOLDE for this new era.
