Affiliation: | 1. Sektion Physik, LMU München, D-85748, Garching, Germany 2. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland 3. Johannes-Gutenberg Universit?t, D-55099, Mainz, Germany 4. Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, S-10405, Stockholm, Sweden 5. Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296, G?teborg, Sweden 6. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany 7. Institut für Angewandte Physik, J.W. Goethe Universit?t, D-60325, Frankfurt, Germany 8. GSI, D-64220, Darmstadt, Germany 9. UniversitéLouis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France 10. Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, K.U. Leuven, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium 11. University of Edinburgh, GB-Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK 12. TU-Darmstadt, D-64289, Darmstadt, Germany
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Abstract: | The Radioactive Beam Experiment REX-ISOLDE [1–3] is a pilot experiment at ISOLDE (CERN) testing the new concept of post acceleration of radioactive ion beams by using charge breeding of the ions in a high charge state ion source and the efficient acceleration of the highly charged ions in a short LINAC using modern ion accelerator structures. In order to prepare the ions for the experiments singly charged radioactive ions from the on-line mass separator ISOLDE will be cooled and bunched in a Penning trap, charge bred in an electron beam ion source (EBIS) and finally accelerated in the LINAC. The LINAC consists of a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator, which accelerates the ions up to 0.3 MeV/u, an interdigital H-type (IH) structure with a final energy between 1.1 and 1.2 MeV/u and three seven gap resonators, which allow the variation of the final energy. With an energy of the radioactive beams between 0.8 MeV/u and 2.2 MeV/u a wide range of experiments in the field of nuclear spectroscopy, astrophysics and solid state physics will be addressed by REX-ISOLDE. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |