[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 15:00

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Date/Time: Tue 2004-04-13 at 15:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Mats Lindroos (ISOLDE, CERN)

Title:     The status of ISOLDE

Abstract: The ISOLDE facility at CERN is one of CERN's longest running experimental areas and the only CERN facility dedicated to nuclear physics. In 2003 the ISOLDE facility delivered 268 eight-hour shifts of beam to 27 approved experiments. The new radioactive beam facility, ISOLDE REX, used 61 eight-hour shifts for physics.

The facility is just undergoing a major consolidation to assure the long term future. Many changes have recently been, or will be, implemented on front-end design, beam transport and target handling. The target laboratory is being extended and upgraded to the highest safety standards and a sizeable extension is being added to the ISOLDE experimental hall. In addition, the Rex post accelerator facility is presently being integrated as part of the facility, rather than being run as a separate experiment.

The future of the facility is being reviewed by the standing group for the upgrade of the ISOLDE facility. For the mid term future ISOLDE hopes to benefit from a possible upgrade of the CERN proton injector, the PS Booster, and take a proton beam current of 10 microAmps at 1.4 GeV to the primary target stations. Furthermore, an upgrade in stages of the Rex linac to 10 MeV/u is in progress. The long term future is closely linked to the progress of the Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) at CERN and the EURISOL Design Study. The European Union has just closed a call for design studies for future European research infrastructure and the European nuclear physics community has submitted several proposals, among them a joint particle physics and nuclear physics proposal for a next generation ISOL facility with an interlinked beta-beam facility for the production of intense electron (anti-) neutrino beams.

I will in my talk review the present status of ISOLDE, discuss the ongoing technical R&D and the future plans. I will also give an overview of the CERN beta-beam conceptual design for which a next generation ISOL facility is required.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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