Status of the electron cyclotron resonance charge breeder for the (252)Cf fission source project at ATLAS.
The construction of the Californium Rare Ion Breeder Upgrade, a new radioactive beam facility for the Argonne tandem linac accelerator system (ATLAS), is in progress. The facility will use fission fragments from a 1 Ci (252)Cf source, thermalized and collected into a low-energy particle beam by a helium gas catcher. In order to reaccelerate these beams, the existing ATLAS ECR1 ion source has been redesigned to function as a charge breeder source. The design features, initial results, and status of this charge breeder configuration are presented.
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Argonne National Laboratory, Physics Division, Argonne, IL 60439, USA. vondrasek@anl.gov
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