https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2012-01599-9
Review
Storage ring at HIE-ISOLDE
Technical design report
1 Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
2 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
3 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
4 Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
5 CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
6 Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, UK
7 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK
8 University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, UK
9 Faculty of Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
10 Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
11 Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
12 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350 Gatchina, Russia
13 Institut für Atom- und Molekülphysik, Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
14 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
15 Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany
16 Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, 28006 Madrid, Spain
17 Centr Jadernykh Dannykh, Fiziko-Energeticheskij Institut, 249033 Obninsk, Russia
18 ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
19 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
20 Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
21 Physics Department, University of Lund, Box-118, 22100 Lund, Sweden
22 II. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Gießen, 35392 Gießen, Germany
23 Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
24 Institut für Kernchemie, Universität Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
25 Helmholtz Institute Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
26 Facultad de Físicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
27 Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
28 Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
29 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
30 Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany
31 NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
32 Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, PR China
33 Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
34 Department of Fundamental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
35 Kernfysisch Versneller Institute (KVI), University of Groningen, 9747 AA Groningen, The Netherlands
36 Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK
37 School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, PR China
38 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland
39 Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany
40 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
41 Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Uni. Valencia, 46071 Valencia, Spain
42 Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
43 University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
44 Department of Atomic Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
45 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
46 Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
47 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07737 Jena, Germany
48 Helmholtz Institute Jena, 07743 Jena, Gemany
49 Department of Physics, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
50 Institut de Physique Nucléaire (IPN), 91406 Orsay, France
51 Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
a The members of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung will exploit the synergies with the FAIR physics program and concentrate on R&D activities relevant for FAIR.
Received:
13
January
2012
Revised:
15
March
2012
Published online:
11
May
2012
We propose to install a storage ring at an ISOL-type radioactive beam facility for the first time. Specifically, we intend to setup the heavy-ion, low-energy ring TSR at the HIE-ISOLDE facility in CERN, Geneva. Such a facility will provide a capability for experiments with stored secondary beams that is unique in the world. The envisaged physics programme is rich and varied, spanning from investigations of nuclear ground-state properties and reaction studies of astrophysical relevance, to investigations with highly-charged ions and pure isomeric beams. The TSR might also be employed for removal of isobaric contaminants from stored ion beams and for systematic studies within the neutrino beam programme. In addition to experiments performed using beams recirculating within the ring, cooled beams can also be extracted and exploited by external spectrometers for high-precision measurements. The existing TSR, which is presently in operation at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, is well-suited and can be employed for this purpose. The physics cases as well as technical details of the existing ring facility and of the beam and infrastructure requirements at HIE-ISOLDE are discussed in the present technical design report.
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