Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 150, 219-224 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00308-3

Future developments of INFN-LNL nuclear beam facilities

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, viale dell'Università 2, 35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy

Corresponding author: bisoffi@lnl.infn.it

Received: 31 January 2007
Published online: 8 December 2007

Abstract

The accelerator group at INFN-LNL has been mostly engaged, recently, in completing and commissioning the higher current injector of the linac booster ALPI (named PIAVE) and in constructing and assembling the front-end part of a high current driver linac for the RNB facility SPES. PIAVE, designed to accelerate ions with A/Q = < 8.5 up to 1.2 MeV/u, is now completed. The injector has been commissioned with O, Ar, Ne and Xe beams. Neon and argon beams have been delivered to experiments for a total of about 400 hours. A consolidation program of PIAVE and ALPI is planned, so as to deliver a larger variety of beams with a current range  pnA and with an energy exceeding the Coulomb barrier in relevant nuclear reaction cases. The RNB facility SPES, allowing a frontier program in RNB physics, is being designed and prototyped: beams of neutron rich medium-to-heavy mass nuclei will be produced inducing ²³⁸U fission with a 40 MeV 200μA proton beam impinging onto a multi-slice direct target. A further development of ALPI will make it best suitable for the re-acceleration of radioactive nuclear species, after charge breeding and isotope selection.