SOLEROO: A solenoidal exotic rare isotope separator at the Australian National University
Date
2011
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Rafiei, Ramin
Dasgupta, Mahananda
Weisser, David
Muirhead, Alistair
Harding, Alan
Cooper, Alan
Wallace, Howard
Lobanov, Nikolai
Wakhle, Aditya
Brown, Michael
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A low-mass radioactive ion beam capability in Australia has been developed using a 6.5 T superconducting solenoid as the separator element. The separator, called SOLEROO, separates the large background of primary-beam particles from the radioactive species of interest. A further rejection of remnant unwanted nuclear species leaving the solenoid is achieved by tracking each emerging particle and identifying them event-by-event using a pair of position sensitive parallel plate avalanche counters. With primary7Li beam current of 1eμA, a6He production rate of 1.2×105s-1 has been achieved. The tagged secondary beam will be combined with a high efficiency 512 pixel silicon detector array for nuclear experiments.
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Keywords: In-flight transfer; Neutron radiations; Parallel plate avalanche counter; Radioactive ion beams; Superconducting solenoidal spectrometer; Tracking; Beam plasma interactions; Ion beams; Ion bombardment; Ions; Isotopes; Neutron irradiation; Separators; Sole In-flight transfer; Neutron radiation control; Parallel plate avalanche counters; Radioactive ion beam; Superconducting solenoidal spectrometer; Tracking
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Section A
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