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

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...

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Published in:Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 2011-03, Vol.631 (1), p.12-21
Main Authors: Rafiei, R., Hinde, D.J., Dasgupta, M., Weisser, D.C., Muirhead, A.G., Harding, A.B., Cooper, A.K., Wallace, H.J., Lobanov, N.R., Wakhle, A., Brown, M.L., Lin, C.J., Horsley, A.J., du Rietz, R., Luong, D.H., Evers, M.
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Summary: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 1 e μ A , a 6He production rate of 1.2 × 10 5 s − 1 has been achieved. The tagged secondary beam will be combined with a high efficiency 512 pixel silicon detector array for nuclear experiments.
ISSN:0168-9002
1872-9576
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2010.12.103