Prospects for advanced electron cyclotron resonance and electron beam ion source charge breeding methods for EURISOL

• Published in: Review of scientific instruments Vol. 83; no. 2; p. 02A906
• Main Authors: Delahaye, P, Galata, A, Angot, J, Ban, G, Celona, L, Choinski, J, Gmaj, P, Jakubowski, A, Jardin, P, Kalvas, T, Koivisto, H, Kolhinen, V, Lamy, T, Lunney, D, Maunoury, L, Porcellato, A M, Prete, G F, Steckiewicz, O, Sortais, P, Thuillier, T, Tarvainen, O, Traykov, E, Varenne, F, Wenander, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2012
• ISSN: 1089-7623
• DOI: 10.1063/1.3665960

As the most ambitious concept of isotope separation on line (ISOL) facility, EURISOL aims at producing unprecedented intensities of post-accelerated radioactive isotopes. Charge breeding, which transforms the charge state of radioactive beams from 1+ to an n+ charge state prior to post-acceleration, is a key technology which has to overcome the following challenges: high charge states for high energies, efficiency, rapidity and purity. On the roadmap to EURISOL, a dedicated R&D is being undertaken to push forward the frontiers of the present state-of-the-art techniques which use either electron cyclotron resonance or electron beam ion sources. We describe here the guidelines of this R&D.