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The ISAC facility at TRIUMF uses the ISOL technique to create exotic isotopes in a thick target mainly through spallation from 500 MeV protons. The ISAC target area has operated for isotope production with up to 50 kW of beam power from the TRIUMF 500 MeV cyclotron. An ion beam formed from these exotic isotopes is transported at energies either to a linac for further acceleration or to any one of a suite of low energy experimental stations. For accelerating the isotopes an RFQ is followed by a five-tank drift tube linac that provides variable-energy accelerated exotic-beams from 0.15 to 1.8 MeV/u, primarily for nuclear astrophysics experiments. Twenty super conducting rf cavities have been recently added to the linac chain and commissioned with beams of stable isotopes, to increase in the maximum energy of the exotic beams to 4.3 MeV/u. Another 20 cavities will be added in 2009 to bring the energy to 6.5 MeV/u. A second proton beam line from the cyclotron and new target station for target and ion source development have been proposed for ISAC. In the future this new target station could be used as an independent simultaneous source of exotic beams for the experimental program.
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