Laser ion source for isobaric heavy ion collider experiment

T Kanesue; M Kumaki; S Ikeda; M Okamura

doi:10.1063/1.4940405

Laser ion source for isobaric heavy ion collider experiment

Rev Sci Instrum. 2016 Feb;87(2):02A920. doi: 10.1063/1.4940405.

Authors

T Kanesue¹, M Kumaki², S Ikeda³, M Okamura¹

Affiliations

¹ Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
² Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
³ Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

PMID: 26931981
DOI: 10.1063/1.4940405

Abstract

Heavy-ion collider experiment in isobaric system is under investigation at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. For this experiment, ion source is required to maximize the abundance of the intended isotope. The candidate of the experiment is (96)Ru + (96)Zr. Since the natural abundance of particular isotope is low and composition of isotope from ion source depends on the composites of the target, an isotope enriched material may be needed as a target. We studied the performance of the laser ion source required for the experiment for Zr ions.