Radioactive beams at Texas A&M University: recent results and future plans Original Research Article

Over the last decade, the combination of the K500 superconducting cyclotron and the recoil spectrometer MARS have been used to generate a wide range of secondary radioactive ion beams. The secondary beams, which typically are produced via transfer reactions in inverse kinematics, have been used primarily for reaction measurements relevant to nuclear astrophysics and β-decay studies. Recently the BigSol spectrometer system has been completed and first measurements of secondary beam production with it have been carried out. Future plans for secondary beam production call for recommissioning the existing K150 (88") cyclotron as a source of high intensity primary beams which would be used with MARS and as a driver for the production of radioactive isotopes which would then be accelerated in the K500 cyclotron up to energies of 70 MeV/A for light nuclei.