The ISOLDE facility

The ISOLDE facility has undergone numerous changes over the last 17 years driven by both the physics and technical community with a common goal to improve on beam variety, beam quality and safety. Improvements have been made in civil engineering and operational equipment while continuing developments aim to ensure operations following a potential increase in primary beam intensity and energy. This paper outlines the principal technical changes incurred at ISOLDE by building on a similar publication of the facility upgrades by Kugler (2000 Hyperfine Interact. 129 23–42). It also provides an insight into future perspectives through a brief summary issues addressed in the HIE-ISOLDE design study Catherall et al (2013 Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B 317 204–207).

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[2]  M. Breitenfeldt,et al.  The TwinEBIS setup: Machine description , 2017 .

[3]  M. Breitenfeldt,et al.  Conceptual design report on a charge breeder for HIE-ISOLDE , 2017, 1701.00687.

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[6]  Design of a single magnet separator with mass resolving power mΔm≈20,000 , 2016 .

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[10]  C. Babcock,et al.  Upgrade of the radio frequency quadrupole cooler and buncher for the HIE-ISOLDE project , 2013 .

[11]  F. Wenander,et al.  Design study of an upgraded charge breeder for ISOLDE , 2013 .

[12]  Marc Huyse,et al.  An overview of the HIE-ISOLDE Design Study , 2013 .

[13]  A. Gottberg,et al.  Design upgrade of the ISOLDE target unit for HIE-ISOLDE , 2013 .

[14]  T.Stora,et al.  Porous silicon carbide and aluminum oxide with unidirectional open porosity as model target materials for radioisotope beam production , 2013, 1803.10527.

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[19]  P. Vingerhoets,et al.  An ion cooler-buncher for high-sensitivity collinear laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE , 2009 .

[20]  Mats Lindroos,et al.  Off-line commissioning of the ISOLDE cooler , 2008 .

[21]  ez,et al.  FRONT-END SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE , 2007 .

[22]  J. Borburgh,et al.  Linac4 Technical Design Report , 2006 .

[23]  D. Lunney,et al.  Preparation of cooled and bunched ion beams at ISOLDE-CERN , 2005 .

[24]  T. Otto,et al.  The radioactive laboratory upgrade at ISOLDE, CERN , 2004 .

[25]  M. Lindroos,et al.  RFQ-cooler for low-energy radioactive ions at ISOLDE , 2003 .

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