SOLEROO: A solenoidal exotic rare isotope separator at the Australian National University

R. Rafiei*, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, D. C. Weisser, A. G. Muirhead, A. B. Harding, A. K. Cooper, H. J. Wallace, N. R. Lobanov, A. Wakhle, M. L. Brown, C. J. Lin, A. J. Horsley, R. Du Rietz, D. H. Luong, M. Evers

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    Abstract

    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 primary 7Li beam current of 1eμA, a 6He 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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)12-21
    Number of pages10
    JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
    Volume631
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2011

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