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:925242

Pardo, R C; Savard, G; 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: 925242
• Report Number(s): ANL/PHY/CP-53299; TRN: US0802386
• Resource Relation: Conference: Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC05); May 16-20, 2005; Knoxville, TN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: ENGLISH

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
ECR ION SOURCES
FISSION
FISSION FRAGMENTS
HELIUM
PARTICLE BEAMS
PERFORMANCE
STABILITY