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and rejection power of separators. Innovative high-power
target and separator developments are going on. Such
a separator will be the state-of-the-art multipurpose
separator S3 to be employed at the high-power LINAG
of SPIRAL2 and TASCA for the cw-linac designed for
SHE studies at GSI.
4.3.9 Recommendations
Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB)
facilities
The continued strongest support for the full completion
and utilization of the international RIB facilities,
NuSTAR@FAIR and SPIRAL2, in coherence with the
ESFRI recommendations (2005, updated in 2008)
which had prioritized their implementation.
The strongest support for the full completion
and utilization of HIE-ISOLDE, recently approved
(2009) by CERN, and SPES, funded by INFN. These
advanced ISOL facilities, together with SPIRAL2, will
bridge the technological gap between present day
facilities and EURISOL, the next generation ISOL
facility for Europe.
The realisation of EURISOL. This long-term goal
is the highest priority of our community for a future
major facility that offers unique physics opportunities.
Accession to the ESFRI list, based on the
extensive Design Study for EURISOL carried out
during the last decade, should be promoted in the
near future.
The construction of these facilities and the large variety
of state-of-the-art instrumentation necessary for their
optimal exploitation, in a collaborative spirit of exchange
of technological expertise, is vital in order to ensure a
world-leading physics programme in Europe.
During the preparatory work and construction of
the new facilities, the existing facilities should be fully
exploited. A co-ordinated approach is needed to provide
the necessary human and financial resources.
The timely and complete realisation of the NuSTAR
facilities at FAIR, as outlined in the Baseline Technical
Report, is of utmost importance for the envisaged physics
programme.
SPIRAL2, HIE-ISOLDE and SPES form a complementary
network of advanced radioactive beam facilities
that are paving the way for the ultimate European ISOL
facility EURISOL. In the next few years it will be necessary
to continue to fund a specific R&D programme for
a few remaining technical challenges for EURISOL. A
Project Office will ensure a continuous and coherent
effort and promote accession to the ESFRI list. Four site
options that build on existing facilities, CERN, GANIL,
LNL-Legnaro and Rutherford laboratory have been identified
as being suitable hosts for EURISOL. By upgrading
these facilities, for example by replacing the SPIRAL2
post accelerator at GANIL by a more powerful LINAC or
promoting a high intensity solution for the replacement
of the CERN injector chain, a substantial advance can
be made towards the realization of EURISOL.
Stable-ion beam facilities
Very strong support for existing and
future stable-ion beam facilities.
Accelerators designed to deliver very high-intensity
stable-ion beams are the high-power LINAG of the
SPIRAL2 facility and the new cw-linac proposed at GSI.
The completion of these facilities together with highperformance
separators is highly important, especially
for off-beam studies of extremely rare nuclei, such as
superheavy elements.
The laboratories where access within the EU-IA-TNA-
ENSAR project is offered for the use of stable-ion beams
and where the variety and intensity of such beams will
be further improved are ALTO-Orsay, GANIL-Caen,
GSI-Darmstadt, JYFL-Jyväskylä, KVI-Groningen, LNL-
Legnaro and LNS-Catania.
Smaller scale facilities with stable-ion beams in
Central and South-Eastern Europe (Athens, Bucharest,
Debrecen, Krakow, Prague, Sofia, Warsaw and Zagreb)
have started a process of integration through the EU-IA-
JRA-ENSAR activity EWIRA. These national and other
university based facilities are needed for specific experimental
programmes, development and testing of new
instruments and to provide education of next-generation
researchers from university groups.
The long-term goal for a new dedicated high-intensity
stable ion beam facility in Europe is recommended as
an important future project. The ECOS network is considered
to play a key role in preparing this project and
also in networking the existing stable ions beams facilities
in Europe.
AGATA
Very strong support for the swift
realisation of the AGATA spectrometer
The first implementation of the Advanced GAmma
Tracking Array, the AGATA demonstrator realising 1/12
of the full spectrometer, has been in operation at LNL
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