Abstract
The on-line isotope mass separator ISOLDE is the radioactive beam facility of CERN. Its objective is the production and research of nuclei far from stability. Exotic nuclei of most chemical elements are available for the study of nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental symmetries and atomic physics, and for applications in condensed-matter and life sciences. A description of the facility, some recent results and future plans are presented here.
Highlights
The ISOLDE facility is one of the World-leading laboratories for the production and investigation of radioactive nuclei and has the World largest ISOL-production of radioactive nuclei
It is able to produce and deliver one thousand three hundred different nuclei of which seven hundred has been used for physics. This large variety of radioactive ion beams is used for many different experiments in the fields of nuclear and atomic physics, materials science and life sciences
The beam delivered by the PSB injector is pulsed and contains up to 3.1013 protons/pulse with a minimum spacing of 1.2 s, giving a typical average proton current on target of 2 μA [1]
Summary
The ISOLDE facility is one of the World-leading laboratories for the production and investigation of radioactive nuclei and has the World largest ISOL-production of radioactive nuclei. The installation of the post-accelerator REX-ISOLDE opened up thirteen years ago new fields of research with radioactive ion beams of higher energies. Post-accelerated radioactive beams of 5.5 MeV/u will allow reaching the Coulomb barrier threshold for a wide range of nuclei facilitating multi-step Coulomb excitation in the full mass range.
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