Design of the advanced rare isotope separator ARIS at FRIB

M. Hausmann, A. M. Aaron, A. M. Amthor, M. Avilov, L. Bandura, R. Bennett, G. Bollen, T. Borden, T. W. Burgess, S. S. Chouhan, V. B. Graves, W. Mittig, D. J. Morrissey, F. Pellemoine, M. Portillo, R. M. Ronningen, M. Schein, B. M. Sherrill, A. Zeller

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Abstract

The Facility for Rare Isotopes Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University will use projectile fragmentation and induced in-flight fission of heavy-ion primary beams at energies of 200 MeV/u and higher and at a beam power of 400 kW to generate rare isotope beams for experiments in nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and fundamental symmetries, as well as for societal needs. The Advanced Rare Isotope Separator (ARIS) has been designed as a three-stage fragment separator for the efficient collection and purification of the rare isotope beams of interest. A vertically bending preseparator (first stage) with production target and beam dump is fully integrated into a production target facility hot cell with remote handling. The new separator compresses the accepted momentum width of up to ±5% of the beam by a factor of three in the standard operational mode. Provisions for alternate operational modes for specific cases are included in the design. This preseparator is followed by two, horizontally-bending separator stages (second and third stages) utilizing the magnets from the existing A1900 fragment separator at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). These stages can alternatively be coupled to a single high-resolution separator stage, resulting in the flexibility to optimize the operation for different experiments, including momentum tagging and in-flight particle identification of rare isotope beams. The design of ARIS will be presented with an emphasis on beam physics characteristics, and anticipated operational modes will be described.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)349-353
Number of pages5
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume317
Issue numberPART B
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2013

Funding

This material is based on work supported by the US Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661.

Keywords

  • Beam Physics
  • Fragment separator
  • Rare isotope production and separation

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