The ISOLDE target area: recent updates

by Dr Antoine Boucherie (CERN), Dr Bernard Crepieux (CERN), Dr Melania Averna (CERN), Dr Stefano Marzari (CERN)

Tuesday 12 Sept 2023, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

C. Villi

At ISOLDE, radioactive nuclides are produced via spallation, fission, or fragmentation reactions in a thick target, irradiated with a proton beam from the PSB at an energy of 1.4 GeV and an intensity up to 2 microA. The target and ion source are fast physico-chemical devices. The volatile nuclear reaction products are released from the high temperature target into an ion source via chemically selective processes and are extracted as a radioactive ion beam, which in many cases reaches the highest intensities available worldwide. In this seminar the recent major updates regarding the ISOLDE facility will be presented and discussed, with a specific focus on the target  - ion source units, on the ISOLDE front-ends, and on safety procedures (https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-facility).