Status Of The EXCYT Facility at INFN-LNS
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via S.Sofia, 44 . 95123 Catania (Italy)
The EXCYT facility (EXotics with CYclotron and Tandem) at the INFN-LNS is based on a K-800 Superconducting Cyclotron injecting stable heavy-ion beams (up to 80 MeV/amu, 1 e{mu}A) into a target-ion source assembly to produce the required nuclear species, and on a 15 MV Tandem for post-accelerating the radioactive beams. Since December 1999 the Superconducting Cyclotron operates in a stand-alone mode by means of the new axial injection beam line. The primary beam line has been already mounted and tested. The part of mass separator on the two high-voltage platforms together with low intensity diagnostics is already installed while the ancillary items along with the part of mass separator at ground potential will be installed during the next stop of accelerator operations. The target-ion source unit has been successfully tested on-line at GANIL. The goal of such efforts will be represented by the test of the mass separator with stable beams planned at LNS by the end of the year. The commissioning of the EXCYT facility is foreseen in 2004 together with the start of nuclear experiments program.
- OSTI ID:
- 20632999
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 701, Issue 1; Conference: EPS Nuclear Physics Divisional Conference: International conference on the labyrinth in nuclear structure, Crete (Greece), 13-19 Jul 2003; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1691729; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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