International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators

4-8 May 2009, Vienna

The ALTO Facility for the Production of Rare Nuclei

F. Ibrahim

IPN Orsay, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France

Corresponding Author: ibrahim@ipno.in2p3.fr

The ALTO facility (Accélérateur Linéaire et Tandem d’Orsay) at Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay is under commissioning. The aim of this facility is to provide neutron rich isotope beams for both nuclear physics study (away from the valley of stability) and developments dedicated to next generation facilities such as SPIRAL2. The neutron rich isotopes are produced by photofission of ²³⁸U induced by the 50 MeV electrons from the linear accelerator. The isotopes coming out of the fission target effuse towards an ion source to form a beam that is analyzed through the on line separator PARRNe. Additional experimental beam lines are currently under construction. Experimental data will be presented and compared to simulations.

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