ISAC and ARIEL: The TRIUMF Radioactive Beam Facilities and the Scientific Program

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dilling, Jens (Editor), Krücken, Reiner (Editor), Merminga, Lia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Physics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle acceleration.; Materials science.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.
• Physical Description: VII, 284 p. 146 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400779631

The TRIUMF Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facility uses the isotope separation on-line (ISOL) technique to produce rare-isotope beams (RIB). The ISOL system consists of a primary production beam, a target/ion source, a mass separator, and beam transport system. The rare isotopes produced during the interaction of the proton beam with the target nucleus are stopped in the bulk of the target material. They diffuse inside the target material matrix to the surface of the grain and then effuse to the ion source where they are ionized to form an ion beam that can be separated by mass and then guided to the experimental facilities. Previously published in the journal Hyperfine Interactions.