https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00263-y
Light radioactive nuclear beams at LNL
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Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche and INFN, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, via Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, viale dell'Università 2, 35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
4
NIPNE, P.O. Box MG-6, Bucharest, Romania
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Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Planckstrasse 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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Istituto di Fisica Generale Applicata and INFN, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
Corresponding author: pierroutsakou@na.infn.it
Received:
31
January
2007
Published online:
8
December
2007
We present the new facility EXOTIC at Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL), dedicated to the in flight production of light
exotic beams at near-barrier energies. The radioactive beams are produced via inverse kinematics mode of intense TANDEM beams hitting on light gas targets. The first beams, 17F and 8B, were produced with very low contaminant
background and with an intensity of 
and 
pps, respectively. In the first measurement performed with the
EXOTIC facility we studied the elastic scattering and the two-body
breakup process
of the 17F radioactive beam on a 208Pb
target at Elab=86MeV. Preliminary results of
this experiment, aiming at the investigation of the reaction mechanisms of
the loosely bound 17F nucleus at subbarrier energies, show a
rather small two-body breakup cross section.
PACS: 25.60.-t – Reactions induced by unstable nuclei / 27.20.+n – 6 ≤ A ≤ 19
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2007
