Radioactive beams from {sup 252}CF fission using a gas catcher and an ECR charge breeder at ATLAS.

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2005

OSTI ID:925213

Savard, G; Pardo, R C; Moore, E F; Hecht, A A; Baker, S

An upgrade to the radioactive beam capability of the ATLAS facility has been proposed using {sup 252}CF fission fragments thermalized and collected into a low-energy particle beam using a helium gas catcher. In order to reaccelerate these beams an existing ATLAS ECR ion source will be reconfigured as a charge breeder source. A 1 Ci{sup 252}CF source is expected to provide sufficient yield to deliver beams of up to {approx}10{sup 6} far from stability ions per second on target. A facility description and the expected performance will be presented in this paper.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 925213
• Report Number(s): ANL/PHY/CP-114970; TRN: US0802285
• Resource Relation: Conference: 16th International Workshop on ECR Ion Sources (ECRIS'04); Sep 26-30, 2004; Berkeley, CA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ECR ION SOURCES
CALIFORNIUM 252
FISSION FRAGMENTS
RADIOACTIVE ION BEAMS
HELIUM
PERFORMANCE
ATLAS SUPERCONDUCTING LINAC
DESIGN