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RESEARCH PRODUCT
The new CERN-ISOLDE on-line mass-separator facility at the PS-Booster
D. FianderK. ZimmerE. KuglerH.l. RavnA. PrzewlokaD.j. SimonB. JohnsonH. Haassubject
PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsLarge Hadron ColliderProtonSeparator (oil production)ISOLTRAPIsotope separationlaw.inventionNuclear physicsBeamlineGeneral purposelawDetectors and Experimental TechniquesInstrumentationBeam (structure)description
The ISOLDE on-line isotope separators have been operated since 1967 at the CERN-SC. This 600 MeV proton synchro-cyclotron had to be shut down in December 1990 after 33 years of service and it was decided to move ISOLDE to a new experimental area. The new on-line mass-separator facility is now under construction at the CERN PS-Booster. This accelerator provides an average current of about 2-mu-A of 1 GeV protons in very short high intensity pulses at low repetition rate. The beam can hit either one of the two target stations, the general purpose separator (GPS), a reconstructed ISOLDE-2 type machine (which can deliver beams simultaneously into three beam lines), and the high resolution separator (HRS), which is essentially the slightly modified ISOLDE-3 separator. The central GPS beam line and the HRS feed a common beam transport system to which most of the experiments will be connected. The new facility will be taken into operation in spring 1992.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-08-01 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms |