Secondary beams and the synthesis of exotic nuclei

Conference · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6518846

Nitschke, J M

With the advent of modern fast cycling synchrotrons capable of delivering high intensity heavy ion beams up to uranium, the production of secondary radioactive ion beams (RIBs) with sufficient intensity has become feasible. The basic production mechanism is the fragmentation of near relativistic heavy ion beams on light targets. The physical facts underlying the efficient conversion of stable beams into RIBs are: (1) at beam energies of several 100 MeV/A thick conversion targets (1 to 10 g/cm/sup 2/) can be used, which, for nuclei near stability, convert on the order of .1 to 1% of the primary beam into secondary beams, (2) the secondary beams are emitted into a narrow phase space (small transverse and longitudinal emittances), and (3) these emittances are of the correct magnitude to match the acceptances of suitably designed storage and accumulator rings. 14 refs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6518846
• Report Number(s): LBL-20196; CONF-8509176-1; ON: DE86001995
• Resource Relation: Conference: Workshop on intermediate energy heavy ion physics, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 23 Sep 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
SECONDARY BEAMS
BETA DECAY
HADRONIC ATOMS
MAGNETIC DIPOLE MOMENTS
MASS
MOESSBAUER EFFECT
MULTICHARGED IONS
Q-VALUE
REVIEWS
STORAGE RINGS
SYNCHROTRONS
TRANS 104 ELEMENTS
ACCELERATORS
ATOMS
BEAMS
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
DECAY
DIPOLE MOMENTS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY
ENERGY RANGE
IONS
MAGNETIC MOMENTS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTICLE BEAMS
TRANSPLUTONIUM ELEMENTS
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
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