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HK: Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 12: Poster-Sitzung: Instrumentation und Anwendungen
HK 12.7: Poster
Tuesday, March 18, 2003, 13:30–15:30, Foyer
JYFLTRAP at IGISOL in Jyväskylä — •J. Szerypo1, V. S. Kolhinen2, T. Eronen2, J. Hakala2, A. Jokinen3, S. Kopecky2, A. Nieminen2, S. Rinta-Antila2, and J. Äystö2 — 1University of Munich (LMU), D-85748 Garching, Germany — 2Department of Physics, FIN-40014 UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland — 3CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
The IGISOL facility at the Department of Physics of the University of Jyväskylä (JYFL) is delivering radioactive beams of short-lived exotic nuclei, in particular the neutron-rich isotopes from the fission reaction. These nuclei are studied with the nuclear spectroscopy methods. In order to increase the quality and sensitivity of such studies in a meaningful way the beam should undergo beam handling: cooling, bunching and isobaric purification. For this purpose an ion trap system, JYFLTRAP, was constructed. The first two processes are performed with the use of an RFQ cooler/buncher. The isobaric purification is made by a Penning trap placed after the RF-cooler. This will yield a substantial background reduction in the nuclear decay spectroscopy experiments and enable studies of very exotic nuclei, like the ones belonging to r-process path. This contribution describes the current status of the Penning trap project including the results of its off-line and on-line tests.