HIE-ISOLDE

✍ Scribed by M. Lindroos; P.A. Butler; M. Huyse; K. Riisager

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 247 KB
• Volume: 266
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-583X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.05.136

✦ Synopsis

The HIE-ISOLDE project proposal is a major staged upgrade to the existing REX accelerator facility at ISOLDE with the objective to provide radioactive beams up to 6 MeV/u with a future option of going to 10 MeV/u. The ambition is to make all isotopes produced at ISOLDE (>800) available as post accelerated beams. The beam quality will be much improved for ISOLDE users with the installation of a RFQ cooler, a new resonant laser ionization system and a renovated high resolution mass separator. New isotopes will be made available through target and ion source development. The driver intensity will be increased (5Â), with a first increase coming from a faster cycling of the PS Booster and a later increase coming from the new Linac-4. We will in this contribution review the project and report on the present status of the staged proposal.