SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) is a facility under construction at INFN-LNL (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), aimed to produce intense neutron-rich radioactive ion beams (RIBs). These will be obtained using the ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) method, bombarding a uranium carbide target with a proton beam of 40 MeV energy and currents up to 200 μA. The target configuration was designed to obtain a high number of fissions, up to 10^13 per second, low power deposition and fast release of the produced isotopes. The exotic isotopes generated in the target are ionized, mass separated and re-accelerated by the ALPI superconducting LINAC at energies of 10AMeV and higher, for masses in the region of A = 130amu, with an expected rate on the secondary target up to 10^9 particles per second. In this work, recent results on the R&D activities regarding the SPES RIB production target-ion source system are reported.
The SPES High Power ISOL production target
Ferrari, M.;Zenoni, A.;
2015-01-01
Abstract
SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) is a facility under construction at INFN-LNL (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), aimed to produce intense neutron-rich radioactive ion beams (RIBs). These will be obtained using the ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) method, bombarding a uranium carbide target with a proton beam of 40 MeV energy and currents up to 200 μA. The target configuration was designed to obtain a high number of fissions, up to 10^13 per second, low power deposition and fast release of the produced isotopes. The exotic isotopes generated in the target are ionized, mass separated and re-accelerated by the ALPI superconducting LINAC at energies of 10AMeV and higher, for masses in the region of A = 130amu, with an expected rate on the secondary target up to 10^9 particles per second. In this work, recent results on the R&D activities regarding the SPES RIB production target-ion source system are reported.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
