The ANURIB project at VECC – Plans and preparations

Abstract VECC is planning to develop a rare ion beam facility called ANURIB 1 (Advanced National facility for Unstable and Rare Isotope Beams) at the upcoming new campus at New Town in Kolkata. ANURIB aims to attract a wide user community in nuclear physics, nuclear-astrophysics, material science and biology and will provide India with world class accelerator facilities. ANURIB will be built around a 50 MeV 100 kW superconducting electron linac (e-Linac) photo-fission driver and is planned to be a combined ISOL and PFS type facility. Construction of the facility will also enable next generation research into production of medical isotopes. In preparation for ANURIB, a low energy ISOL type facility has been built around the existing K130 cyclotron at VECC. Developed for the past decade, this facility was aimed at completing major R&D steps involved in the construction of ANURIB. Presently this facility accelerates beams up to energy of 415 keV/u and recently first radioactive beams have been produced. Development of a 10 MeV Injector Cryo Module for the e-Linac has been started in collaboration with TRIUMF. In this paper the plans for ANURIB project and present status of the R&D activities will be presented.

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