• A. Bandyopadhyay, S. Basak, D. Bhowmick, A. Chakrabarti, P.S. Chauhan, S. Dechoudhury, P. Karmakar, T. Kundu Roy, T.K. Mandi, M. Mondal, V. Naik, H.K. Pandey, D. Sanyal
  DAE/VECC, Calcutta
• S. Bhattacharjee
  UGC DAE CSR, Kolkata

An ISOL post-accelerator type of Rare Ion Beam (RIB) facility is being developed at our centre. The facility will use light ion beams from the K=130 cyclotron for producing RIBs using suitable thick targets. Also, development of an electron LINAC has been initiated with an eye to produce RIBs using the photo-fission route. The RIBs will be ionized, mass separated and the RIB of interest will be accelerated using a four rod Radio Frequency Quadrupole from 1.7 to 98 keV/u. The posts, vanes and base plate of the RFQ have been machined from OFC copper and the cavity is made from steel with its inner surface plated with copper. Oxygen beam of charge state 5+ has already been accelerated with an efficiency of around 90% through the RFQ. The first IH LINAC will accelerate RIBs up to about 186 keV/u. The octagonal shape LINAC cavity is made from explosively bonded copper cladded steel. Low power tests of the LINAC is encouraging - the beam test is scheduled for January 2009 and the results of which will be reported. The R&D efforts in various areas of this project will be discussed in this paper. Special emphasis will be given to the development of the RFQ and LINAC.