Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 5, December 2011
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Article Number | 52001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Nuclear Physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/52001 | |
Published online | 24 November 2011 |
New stopping cell capabilities: RF carpet performance at high gas density and cryogenic operation
1
KVI, University of Groningen - Zernikelaan 25, 9747 AA Groningen, the Netherlands, EU
2
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research - Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany, EU
3
II. Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen - Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, 35392 Gießen, Germany, EU
Received:
11
May
2011
Accepted:
19
October
2011
We have developed a stopping cell to be used at the FRS and Super-FRS (Super-conducting FRagment Separator) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), both in Darmstadt, Germany. The cell has a stopping volume with a length of 1 m and a diameter of 25 cm. It is aimed at operation with high-density helium gas (up to 0.2 mg/cm3). Ours is the first realisation of a stopping cell in which the required purity of the helium stopping gas is ensured by operation at cryogenic temperatures. On the exit side, the ions are guided to the exit hole by an RF carpet with 4 electrodes per mm, operating at a frequency of 5.8 MHz. We present the first commissioning results of the cryogenic stopping cell. Using 219Rn ions emitted as alpha-decay recoils from a 223Ra source, a combined ion survival and extraction efficiency between 10 and 25% is measured for helium gas at a temperature of 85 K and with a density up to 0.07 mg/cm3 (equivalent to a pressure of 430 mbar at room temperature). This density is almost two times higher than demonstrated up to now for RF ion repelling structures in helium gas. Given the operational and design parameters of the system, it is projected that this technology is useful up to a helium gas density of at least 0.2 mg/cm3.
PACS: 29.38.Db – Fast radioactive beam techniques / 29.27.Eg – Beam handling; beam transport / 29.25.Rm – Sources of radioactive nuclei
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