present and future physics possibilities at isolde

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Present and future physics possibilities at ISOLDE

Karsten Riisager

PH Department, CERN

http://www.cern.ch/isolde

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ISOLDE@CERN

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RIBs for 40 years

• High-energy proton beam– 600 MeV → 1.4 GeV

• Accumulated experience in RIB-production and -manipulation– targets and ion sources– charge breeding– cooling, bunching, ...

• Many experimental tools

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ISOLDE yields, 2006

ISOLDE target groupM. Turrion

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Rex efficiencies

0.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

0 50 100 150 200 250

A

%

7Li238U

27Al

116Cd

Efficiencies for beams 2006Tot. eff. = Trap × BTS × EBIS × Sep

F. Wenander

So far: 53 radioactive isotopes of 20 elements – reaching 188Hg

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30,31,32Mg

67,69,71,73Cu, 68Cu, 70(m)Cu68Ni

74,76,78,80Zn28

50

20 40 50 82 184,186,188Hg82

70Se96Sr, 88Kr, 92Kr

20

The Coulex program

122,124Cd138,140Xe140,148,150Ba

106,108,110Sn

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Collective properties studied by Coulomb excitation

Miniball

107Ag

REX-ISOLDE

30,32Mg

E=2.86 MeV/u

PPACdetector

Beam

CD – detector

Double sided Si strip detector

Beam dump

Beam

impurities

E-E detector

• 24 - 6-fold segmented Ge detectors• flexible geometry• full energy(@ 1.33 MeV) 7 %• fully digital electronics + pulse shape analysis (PSA)• electronic segmentation and PSA: 50-100 fold increase in granularity

• r from central core• from induced charge in neighboring segments

• low-multiplicity -ray experiments with weak exotic beams

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68,mCu (2.83 MeV/u) @ 120Sn (2.3 mg/cm2)

70Cu (2.83 MeV/u) @ 120Sn (2.3 mg/cm2)

6-

(3-)

4-

(5-)

0 T1/2= 44.5 s

101 T1/2 = 33 s

228

506

127 (M1)

No Doppler Corr.

Doppler Corr. for A=70

85 T1/2 = 7.84 ns1+

(2+)

6-

4-

(3-)722 T1/2 = 3.75 min

(5-)

0 T1/2 = 31.1 s

956178 (M1)

693

84

778 0.7 < T1/2 < 4 nsE2

E2

Post-accelerated isomeric beamsCoulomb excitation of 68,70Cu

242 T1/2 = 6.6 s 1+

I Stefanescu et al, PRL 98 (2007) 122701

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Combination of spectroscopy, laser ionization and mass measurements

270

300

330

360

390

Mea

n T

OF

/

s

270

300

330

360

390

Mea

n T

OF

/

s

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

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300

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Mea

n T

OF

/

s

c - 1300610 / Hz

16%

4%

80%

Intensity ratio:

normalized to the area

with cleaning of 6– state

Unambiguous state assignment!c = B

qm

(6–) state = gs

(3–) state = 1.is

1+ state = 2.is

R 1·10-7

ME of ground state is 240 keV higher than literature value!

Excellent agreement with decay studies.

101(3) keV101(3) keV

242(3) keV242(3) keV

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Shape coexistence in the Pb region182Pb: T1/2 55 ms 1 count/min

186PbA.Andreyev et al. Nature, 405, 430 (2000)

Nilsson-StrutinskyNilsson-Strutinsky

Resonant Laser IonizationH. De Witte et al. PRL 98, 112502 (2007)

ISOLDE; more than 30 years ago

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More evidence

Resonant Laser Ionization of Po isotopesT. Cociolis et al., preliminary results

Coulomb excitation of 184,186,188Hg isotopesN. Bree, A.Petts et al., preliminary results

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An example: 30-33Mg

• 2nd 0+ in 30Mg at 1788 keV, weak mixing – Schwerdtfeger at Dec 07 ISOLDE workshop

• Coulex of (30,32Mg and) 31Mg – Reiter do

• Transfer d(30Mg,31Mg)p – Bildstein do

• Magnetic moments 31,33Mg, COLLAPS – Yordanov et al, PRL 99 (2007) 212501

• Masses, MISTRAL – Lunney et al, Eur. Phys. J. A28 (2006) 129

• Level lifetimes – Mach et al, Eur. Phys. J. A25 (2005) 105

• Radii, beta-decay studies,...

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Decay studies @ ISOLDE

previous IS414 results: H. Mach et al.

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Aims of the upgrade

IntensityEnergy

Coulex for all RIB Transfer reactions

Efficiency low energy + acceleratedSelectivityBeam “quality”

Reduced phase space Bunching

Polarization ..... > 100 keV/u

+ + +++

magnet

tilted foils

HF

+ + +++

magnet

tilted foils

+ + +++

magnet

tilted foils

HF

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HIE-ISOLDE at CERNIncrease in REX energy from 3 to 5.5 MeV/u (later increase to 10 MeV/u possible)

Super-HRS for isobaric separationRILIS upgrade & LIST

RFQ cooler, REX-TRAP, REX-EBIS REX-ECR upgrades

Increase proton intensity 2 6 A (LINAC4, PSB upgrade) - target and front-end upgrade

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... already ongoing

RFQ coolerUK, JYFL, Mainz..

RILIS upgradeSweden (Wallenberg)

REX extensionUK (Cockcroft Institute..), Leuven..

+ in CERN white paper “4. theme”

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Bunched-beam laser spectroscopy: Bunched-beam laser spectroscopy: 4444KK

E. Mane

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SC linac

M. Pasini

Max energy for different A/q :

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Some extrapolated yields

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European Roadmap for RIB facilities

Jan 07 agreement – Complimentarity;Collaboration

EU EURISOL Design Study

ESFRI list

107 €

108 €

109 €

EU FAIR Design Study

SPL (CERN)decision

P. Butler

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Beta-Beams

2 x 1013 ions/s6He and 18Ne

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Thanks to:

The ISOLDE Physics Group The ISOLDE Technical Group The ISOLDE Collaboration

Peter Butler

Mats Lindroos

Mark Huyse

http://hie-isolde.web.cern.ch/HIE-ISOLDE/HIE-ISOLDE: the technical options - CERN-2006-013HIE-ISOLDE: the scientific opportunities - CERN-2007-008