Recent results from the Louvain-la-Neuve RIB-facility Original Research Article

At the end of 1999, a first on-line RIB was accelerated, extracted and separated with the new cyclotron, CYCLONE44. An efficiency of 7% (from ion source exit to experiment target), resulting in 6×108 pps of 19Ne3+, was obtained. Up to 9 kW of beam power has been put on the LiF target giving increased intensities for 6He, 18Ne and 15O. A new accelerated and pure 7Be-beam of 2×107 pps has been produced, using the sputtering electrode in the ECR-source. Production tests of 14O using CYCLONE110 have started in view of their acceleration with CYCLONE44.