Project of an advanced ISOL facility for exotic beams at LNL

✍ Scribed by L.B. Tecchio; A. Andrighetto; R. Cherubini; P. Colautti; M. Comunian; L. Corradi; A. Dainelli; G. De Angelis; M. De Poli; A. Facco; E. Fioretto; G. Fortuna; G. Jiyu; R. Ming; G. Montagnoli; G. Moschini; A. Pisent; M. Poggi; A.M. Porcellato; D. Zafiropoulos; P. Bak; N. Kot; P. Logatchev; S. Shyankov; F. Brandolini; G. Moschini; C. Signorini; T. Clauser; G. Lamanna; V. Stagno; V. Variale

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 36 KB
• Volume: 701
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(01)01550-0

✦ Synopsis

In the framework of the European program to define a second generation Radioactive Ion Beam facility, LNL are proposing the construction in the next five-seven years of a specialized national facility for RIB originated by fission fragments produced by secondary neutrons. It consists on a two-accelerator ISOL-type facility to provide intense neutron-rich radioactive ion beams of highest quality, in the range of masses between 80 and 160. The conceptual design is based on a high intensity 50 MeV (100 kW) proton linac as driver and on the availability of the heavy-ion accelerator ALPI as post accelerator. The estimated neutron yield is 2 × 10 14 n/s at 0 • , high enough to satisfy the demand for an advanced RIB facility. An intense R&D program on different items is actually in progress in collaboration with other Laboratories and University groups and is moving in a European context.