The REX-ISOLDE project

D Habs, O Kester, T Sieber, H Bongers, S Emhofer, P Reiter, PG Thirolf, G Bollen, J Aysto, O Forstner, H Ravn, T Nilsson, M Oinonen, H Simon, Joakim Cederkäll, F Ames, P Schmidt, G Huber, L Liljeby, O SkeppstedtKG 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, L Weissman, AC Shotter, AN Ostrowski, T Davinson, PJ Woods, J Cub, A Richter, G Schrieder

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Abstract

The Radioactive Beam Experiment REX-ISOLDE [1-3] is a pilot experiment at ISOLDE (CERN) testing the new concept of post acceleration of radioactive ion beams by using charge breeding of the ions in a high charge state ion source and the efficient acceleration of the highly charged ions in a short LINAC using modern ion accelerator structures. In order to prepare the ions for the experiments singly charged radioactive ions from the on-line mass separator ISOLDE will be cooled and bunched in a Penning trap, charge bred in an electron beam ion source (EBIS) and finally accelerated in the LINAC. The LINAC consists of a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator, which accelerates the ions up to 0.3 MeV/u, an interdigital H-type (IH) structure with a final energy between 1.1 and 1.2 MeV/u and three seven gap resonators, which allow the variation of the final energy. With an energy of the radioactive beams between 0.8 MeV/u and 2.2 MeV/u a wide range of experiments in the field of nuclear spectroscopy, astrophysics and solid state physics will be addressed by REX-ISOLDE.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)43-66
JournalHyperfine Interactions
Volume129
Issue number1-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Subatomic Physics

Free keywords

  • radioactive beams
  • RIB-facilities
  • charge breeding
  • accelerators
  • ion
  • sources

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