| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 107, 2016
International Conference on Nuclear Structure and Related Topics (NSRT15)
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| Article Number | 01001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Projects | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610701001 | |
| Published online | 19 January 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610701001
The SPES radioactive ion beam project of LNL: status and perspectives
1 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020, Legnaro (Pd), Italy
2 INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, I-95123, Catania, Italy
a e-mail: giacomo.deangelis@lnl.infn.it
Published online: 19 January 2016
A new Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facility (SPES) is presently under construction at the Legnaro National Laboratories of INFN. The SPES facility is based on the ISOL method using an UCx Direct Target able to sustain a power of 8 kW. The primary proton beam is provided by a high current Cyclotron accelerator with energy of 35-70 MeV and a beam current of 0.2-0.7 mA. Neutron-rich radioactive ions are produced by proton induced fission on an Uranium target at an expected fission rate of the order of 1013 fissions per second. After ionization and selection the exotic isotopes are re-accelerated by the ALPI superconducting LINAC at energies of 10A MeV for masses in the region A=130 amu. The expected secondary beam rates are of the order of 107 - 109 pps. Aim of the SPES facility is to deliver high intensity radioactive ion beams of neutron rich nuclei for nuclear physics research as well as to be an interdisciplinary research centre for radio-isotopes production for medicine and for neutron beams.
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