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The EXCYT facility (EXotics with CYclotron and Tandem) at the INFN-LNS is based on a K-800 Superconducting Cyclotron injecting stable heavy-ion beams (up to 80 MeV/amu, 1 emA) into a target-ion source assembly to produce the required nuclear species, and on a 15 MV Tandem for post-accelerating the radioactive beams. After thermal ANSYS simulations, during May 2003 the Target-Ion Source assembly (TIS) was successfully tested at GANIL under the same operational conditions that will be initially used at EXCYT. Yields and production efficiencies for 8,9Li were compatible with the ones obtained at SPIRAL. Following suggestions by the Referees and the LNS Research Division, we decided to deliver 8Li as the first EXCYT radioactive beam (primary beam 13C). This choice also takes in account the availability of MAGNEX in 2004 as well as the requests and the first results obtained by the Big Bang collaboration. The commissioning of the EXCYT facility is foreseen by the end of 2004 together with the start of nuclear experiments program. In this poster we also report prospective ion beams currently in development.
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