Status of the EXCYT facility at INFN-LNS

✍ Scribed by G. Ciavola; R. Alba; L. Calabretta; L. Celona; G. Cosentino; G. Cuttone; P. Finocchiaro; S. Gammino; M. Menna; R. Papaleo; G. Raia; D. Rifuggiato; A. Rovelli; M. Silvestri; D. Vinciguerra; M. Winkler

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 74 KB
• Volume: 701
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9474(01)01547-0

✦ Synopsis

The EXCYT facility at the INFN-LNS aims to the production of radioactive ion beams to be postaccelerated by a 15 MV Tandem. The primary stable heavy-ion beam (up to 80 MeV/amu, 1 pµA) is supplied by a K-800 Superconducting Cyclotron, which has been operating in a stand-alone mode, by means of the new axial injection beam line, since December, 1999. The magnets of the primary beam line have been aligned and most of the components of the mass separator have been purchased. Different types of Heavy Ion Target-Source (HITS) systems have been built and are here described; in particular, a microwave ion source fully designed and manufactured at LNS has been assembled and successfully tested. Finally, low-intensity beam diagnostics is also ready and reliability tests are under way.