Abstract Booklet - Physics Division - Argonne National Laboratory

MOC – Oral Presentation Monday 18-June-12 14:00 - 16:00
MOC03 Operational Considerations for Future Multi-user RIB Facilities
Colin Morton (TRIUMF, Vancouver)
TRIUMF's ISAC is an ISOL-type RIB facility. RIB are produced in direct reactions of 480—500
MeV protons from TRIUMF's main cyclotron on thick targets in one of two production target
stations. Like other such facilities, ISAC is only capable of serving a single RIB user at any
given time, though simultaneous delivery of stable and radioactive beams to different
experimental areas is possible. With the construction of ARIEL, the Advanced Rare-IsotopE
Laboratory, ISAC will gain a second production front end. RIB will be produced by photofission
on actinide targets using electrons from a new superconducting electron linac. This will give
ISAC the ability to serve two RIB experiments concurrently with beams produced by different
reaction mechanisms in separate target areas (with delivery of a third, stable, beam still possible).
The shift from single-user to multi-user RIB operation will introduce significant new complexity
to beam delivery, requiring new tools and techniques for beam time to be used efficiently. A first
look at the potential operational requirements of a multi-user RIB facility will be discussed.
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