Design Issues Related to Producing Accelerated Rare Isotopes
Mauricio Portillo, ANL/PHY
For several years, members of the nuclear structure community
have expressed an interest in having accelerated rare isotope
beams delivered on target. The ion sources that may be used to
deliver rare isotopes to such an accelerator must be efficient
and able to withstand extreme conditions of beam power, high
temperature, and radiation levels. The limitation imposed by
such conditions require that acceleration of low charge state ions
be considered with high selectivity mass filtering. Issues related
to these limitations will be covered as well as some possible
schemes to overcome them. An emphasis will be given on
matching such beams to the current ATLAS linear accelerator
system at Argonne.
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