Status of the REX-ISOLDE project

Author

von Hahn, R. ; Grieser, M. ; Podlech, H. ; Repnow, R. ; Schwalm, D. ; Bongers, H. ; Habs, D. ; Kester, O. ; Sieber, T. ; Rudolph, K. ; Thirolf, R. ; Schempp, A. ; Smes, F. ; Bollen, G. ; Deloose, I. ; Ratzinger, U. ; Liljeby, L. ; Rensfelt, K.-G. ; Wenand

Author_Institution

Max-Planck-Inst. fur Kernphys., Heidelberg, Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1955

Abstract

The radioactive beam experiment REX-ISOLDE, a pilot experiment testing a new concept of post acceleration of radioactive ions at ISOLDE/CERN is in progress. Singly charged radioactive ions delivered by the online mass separator ISOLDE are accumulated in a Penning trap (REX trap), charge bred in an electron beam ion source (EBIS), separated from the residual gas in a mass separator and then accelerated in a linac with output energies between 0.8 and 2.2 MeV/u. The REX trap is in operation, a first test beam was already injected. The design phase of the EBIS is finished and the construction has been started. The superconducting magnet is delivered. The linac consists of a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator, an interdigital IH-structure and 3 seven gap resonators to vary the final energy

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; accelerator magnets; beam handling equipment; electron beams; ion accelerators; ion sources; isotope separation; linear accelerators; particle traps; radioactive ion beams; superconducting magnets; 0.8 to 2.2 MeV; Penning trap; REX-ISOLDE project; RFQ accelerator; electron beam ion source; gap resonators; interdigital IH-structure; linac; online mass separator; pilot experiment; postacceleration; radioactive beam experiment; radiofrequency quadrupole; singly charged radioactive ions; superconducting magnet; Acceleration; Electron beams; Electron traps; Ion sources; Life estimation; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Particle separators; Structural beams; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.794326

Filename

794326