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HK: Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 12: Poster Session: Instrumentation and Applications

HK 12.5: Poster

Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 13:30–15:30, Foyer

TRIµP - A new facility to produce and trapradioactive isotopes — •M. Sohani, G.P.A. Berg, U. Dammalapati, P. Dendooven, O. Dermois, G. Ebberink, M. Harakeh, R. Hoekstra, L. Huisman, K. Jungmann, H.H. Kiewiet, R. Morgenstern, J. Mulder, A. Rogachevskiy, M. Sanchez-Vega, R. Timmermans, E. Traykov, L. Willmann, and H.W. Wilschut — Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

At the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut (KVI) in Groningen the new facility TRIµP (Trapped Radioactive Isotopes - µicrolaboratories for fundamental Physics) is being set up. It aims for producing radioactive isotopes for studying fundamental interactions in physics. Heavy ion beams from the superconducting cyclotron AGOR will be used to create isotopes in inverse kinematics and fragmentation reactions. The products will be separated from the primary beam in a magnetic device. A double recoil and fragment separator system allows to cover a broad range of isotopes. They will be slowed down in matter. and further cooled, confined and bunched using a segmented radiofrequency quadrupole system. Singly charged species are guided to experimental stations. After neutralization the atoms will be optically cooled to below mK temperatures and stored in an atom trap (magneto optical trap). The research program pursued by the local KVI group includes precision studies of nuclear β-decays, through β–neutrino(recoil nucleus) correlations and searches for permanent electric dipole moments. Commissioning of the facility is foreseen in the course of the year 2004, where after it will be open for use by outside scientific groups.