Design and construction of a water target system for harvesting radioisotopes at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Pen, Aranh; Mastren, Tara; Peaslee, Graham F.; Petrasky, Kelly; DeYoung, Paul A.; Morrissey, David J.; Lapi, Suzanne E.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.02.010

Design and construction of a water target system for harvesting radioisotopes at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Journal Article · Fri Feb 14 04:00:00 EST 2014 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.02.010· OSTI ID:1454861

Pen, Aranh ^[1]; Mastren, Tara ^[2]; Peaslee, Graham F. ^[3]; Petrasky, Kelly ^[3]; DeYoung, Paul A. ^[4]; Morrissey, David J. ^[5]; Lapi, Suzanne E. ^[2]

Hope College, Holland, MI (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Nuclear Science and Security Consortium
Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States). Dept. of Radiology
Hope College, Holland, MI (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Hope College, Holland, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Dept. of Chemistry. National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab. (NSCL)

In this paper, a liquid water target system for harvesting radioisotopes at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) was designed and constructed as the initial step in proof-of-principle experiments to harvest useful radioisotopes from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). FRIB will be a new national user facility for nuclear science, to be completed in 2020, at which radioisotopes will be collected synergistically from the water in cooling-loops for the primary beam dump that cycle the water at flow rates in excess of hundreds of gallons per minute. As part of the development of radiochemical expertise required to harvest long-lived radioisotopes of interest in this environment, the water target system described here was constructed and successfully used to collect a test beam of relativistic ²⁴Na ions produced at the NSCL. Finally, future studies will involve collecting interesting transition metal isotopes such as ⁶⁷Cu from less purified secondary projectile fragment beams.

Research Organization:: Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Hope College, Holland, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26); National Science Foundation (NSF) (United States)

DOE Contract Number:: NA0000979; SC0007352

OSTI ID:: 1454861

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Vol. 747; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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