RES-ISOLDE - Post-accelerated radioactive beams at CERN-ISOLDE

Summary, in English

The ISOLDE RIB-facility at CERN has today been producing a vast range of radioactive beams since more than 30 years. The low-energy beams of ISOLDE will be complemented by a post-accelerator, REX-ISOLDE, currently being assembled. In order to convert the pseudo-DC, singly-charged beam from the ISOLDE mass separators into a cooled and bunched beam at higher charge states, a novel scheme of trapping, cooling and charge-state breeding has been devised, using a linear Penning trap and an Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS). This allows for subsequent acceleration by a short, cost-effective LINAC consisting of an RFQ, an IH-structure and three seven-gap resonators, reaching 0.8 - 2.2 MeV/u. The installation of REX-ISOLDE is well underway and the first post accelerated radioactive beams are expected to be obtained during late 2000.

• Author: T Nilsson; J Aysto; O Forstner; HL Ravn; M Oinonen; H Simon; Joakim Cederkäll; L Weissman; D Habs; F Ames; O Kester; T Sieber; H Bongers; S Emhofer; P Reiter; PG Thirolf; G Bollen; P Schmidt; G Huber; L Liljeby; O Skeppstedt; KG Rensfelt; F Wenander; B Jonson; G Nyman; R von Hahn; H Podlech; R Repnow; C Gund; D Schwalm; A Schempp; KU Kuhnel; C Welsch; U Ratzinger; G Walter; A Huck; K Kruglov; M Huyse; P van den Bergh; P van Duppen; AC Shotter; AN Ostrowski; T Davinson; PJ Woods; I Moukha; A Richter; G Schrieder
• Publishing year: 2001
• Language: English
• Pages: 265-268
• Publication/Series: APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY
• Volume: 576
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Conference name: 16th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry
• Conference date: 2000-11-01 - 2000-11-05
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0094-243X; ISSN: 1551-7616