1. Development of a resonant laser ionization gas cell for high-energy, short-lived nuclei
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Sonoda, T., Wada, M., Tomita, H., Sakamoto, C., Takatsuka, T., Furukawa, T., Iimura, H., Ito, Y., Kubo, T., Matsuo, Y., Mita, H., Naimi, S., Nakamura, S., Noto, T., Schury, P., Shinozuka, T., Wakui, T., Miyatake, H., Jeong, S., Ishiyama, H., Watanabe, Y. X., Hirayama, Y., Okada, K., and Takamine, A.
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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
A new laser ion source configuration based on resonant photoionization in a gas cell has been developed at RIBF RIKEN. This system is intended for the future PArasitic RI-beam production by Laser Ion-Source (PALIS) project which will be installed at RIKEN's fragment separator, BigRIPS. A novel implementation of differential pumping, in combination with a sextupole ion beam guide (SPIG), has been developed. A few small scroll pumps create a pressure difference from 1000 hPa - 10^-3 Pa within a geometry drastically miniaturized compared to conventional systems. This system can utilize a large exit hole for fast evacuation times, minimizing the decay loss for short-lived nuclei during extraction from a buffer gas cell, while sufficient gas cell pressure is maintained for stopping high energy RI-beams. In spite of the motion in a dense pressure gradient, the photo-ionized ions inside the gas cell are ejected with an assisting force gas jet and successfully transported to a high-vacuum region via SPIG followed by a quadrupole mass separator. Observed behaviors agree with the results of gas flow and Monte Carlo simulations.
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- 2012
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