ANL, Argonne
Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
The construction of the Californium Rare Ion Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU), a new radioactive beam facility for the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS), is nearing completion. The facility will use fission fragments from a 1 Ci 252Cf source; thermalized and collected into a low-energy particle beam by a helium gas catcher. In order to reaccelerate these beams, the existing ATLAS ECR1 ion source was redesigned to function as an ECR charge breeder. The helium gas catcher system and the charge breeder are located on separate high voltage platforms. An additional high voltage platform was constructed to accommodate a low charge state stable beam source for charge breeding development work. Thus far the charge breeder has been tested with stable beams of rubidium and cesium achieving charge breeding efficiencies of 5.2% into 85Rb17+ and 2.9% into 133Cs20+.
