Dual Magnetic Separator for TRI$\mu$P

Abstract

The TRI$\mu$P facility, under construction at KVI, requires the production and separation of short-lived and rare isotopes. Direct reactions, fragmentation and fusion-evaporation reactions in normal and inverse kinematics are foreseen to produce nuclides of interest with a variety of heavy-ion beams from the superconducting cyclotron AGOR. For this purpose, we have designed, constructed and commissioned a versatile magnetic separator that allows efficient injection into an ion catcher, i.e., gas-filled stopper/cooler or thermal ionizer, from which a low energy radioactive beam will be extracted. The separator performance was tested with the production and clean separation of ${}^{21}$Na ions, where a beam purity of 99.5% could be achieved. For fusion-evaporation products, some of the features of its operation as a gas-filled recoil separator were tested.

accepted by Nucl.Instr. Meth., final version

References in corpus (1)

• Fundamental Symmetries and Interactions

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• Production of short lived radioactive beams of radium
• Production of Radioactive Nuclides in Inverse Reaction Kinematics
• Production and trapping of radioactive atoms at the TRI\muP facility
• Compilation of spectroscopic data of Radium (Ra I and Ra II)
• Measurement of the half-life of the T=$\frac{1}{2}$ mirror decay of ${}^{19}$Ne and its implication on physics beyond the standard model
• Isotope Shifts of the $6d{}^2$D${}_{3/2}$ - $7p{}^2$P${}_{1/2}$ Transition in Trapped Short-Lived ${}^{209-214}$Ra${}^{+}$
• Development of a thermal ionizer as ion catcher
• Measurement of the branching ratio for beta-delayed alpha decay of 16N
• The beta-gamma decay of 21Na