Project acronym:
EURISOL DS
EURopean Isotope Separation On-Line Radioactive Ion Beam Facility
Proposal/Contract no.: 515768-DS
Design study
1.
Project Summary
Following the results and recommendations of the EURISOL RTD conceptual design study performed within
FP5, the “EURISOL DS” design study will produce detailed engineering-oriented studies and technical
prototyping work for the next-generation ISOL Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facility in Europe. Such a worldclass facility, complementary to the “in-flight” facility envisaged elsewhere in Europe, is expected to come into
operation in the next decade. It will provide unique world-class research opportunities in nuclear physics, nuclear
astrophysics and materials science, and supply new radiopharmaceutical isotopes.
The study will address the major technological problems which are expected to arise in the creation of a facility
able to provide exotic ions in quantities which are orders of magnitude higher than those currently available
anywhere else in the world. A feasibility study into the use of the EURISOL facility for the production of pure
electron-neutrinos is an integral part of the design study; this is the so-called new “beta-beam” proposal.
Synergies which exist between the proposed infrastructure and other European developments will be exploited to
mutual advantage.
Twenty institutes and laboratories within Europe have offered to take part in the design study as full Participants,
with an additional 20 institutions - either in Europe, North America or Asia - collaborating as Contributors. The
participants are drawn from the major European institutions that lead research in Nuclear Physics and associated
fields. In this Design Study they provide specific technological expertise on superconducting linear accelerators,
high-power targetry, RIB production, ion sources and beam manipulation, radiation safety and instrumentation.
2.
Project website address: www.eurisol.org (in preparation). You may find an interim Web page at the link
www.lnl.infn.it (EURISOL DS Design Study bottom)
3.
Project Achievements
All the European institutions which are currently running facilities producing secondary RIBs (GANIL, CERNISOLDE, GSI and Louvain-la-Neuve) will participate in this Design Study and will collaborate in the
development of the future facility. The results obtained through the Design Study will also allow them to
improve the performance of the existing facilities for the benefit of their user community through cost-effective
upgrade programs. Moreover, the Design Study will co-ordinate the research and developmental efforts in the
field at a European level and will thus avoid duplication and shorten the development time. The performance of
the intermediate facilities such as SPIRAL II at GANIL and SPES at LNL which will be realized in the next five
years will benefit from the advanced technical solutions investigated in this Design Study. This concerns in
particular the driver and heavy-ion accelerators, the neutron converter and fission target based on solid materials,
and the beam preparation preceding injection in the post-accelerator. The facilities MAFF, REX-ISOLDE and
EXCYT will also profit from the work carried out in the Design Study. For example the beam preparation
methods and post-accelerator study are relevant for MAFF and REX, while the target development is relevant for
both ISOLDE and EXCYT.
Other potential users of the present design study are those participating in initiatives in the fields of basic
and applied sciences which make use of high-power (MW range) proton/deuteron beams. Advanced technical
solutions for a whole SC CW-linac, particularly for the low-velocity regime, and for the associated high-power
targets are of paramount importance for all the ADS systems including neutron spallation sources. High
reliability machines with no beam-loss are mandatory for most of the applications. As mentioned elsewhere,
potential fields of application are next generation neutrino and muon factories, waste incineration, energy
amplifiers, neutron sources, production of rare isotopes for medical applications etc.
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List of participants
Participant
number
(co-ordinator = N°1)
Participant name
(Organisation, city, country)
Short name
1
Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, Caen, France
GANIL
2
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des
Particules,
Paris, France
CNRS/IN2P3
3
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare,
Frascati, Italy
INFN
4
European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva,
Switzerland
CERN
5
Université Catholique de Louvain, Centre de Recherches du
Cyclotron,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
UCL
6
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (Direction des
Sciences de la Matière),
Paris, France
CEA
7
“Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear
Engineering,
Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
NIPNE
8
University of Jyväskylä,
Jyväskylä, Finland
JYU
9
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Muenchen,
Germany
LMU
10
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH,
Juelich, Germany
FZJ
11
Institute of Physics,
Vilnius, Lithuania
FI
12
Warsaw University,
Warsaw, Poland
UW
13
Institute of Physics - Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Bratislava, Slovakia
SAS
14
The University of Liverpool,
Liverpool, United Kingdom
U-LIVERPOOL
15
Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung m.b.H, Darmstadt,
Germany
GSI
16
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
USDC
17
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research
Councils,
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
CCLRC
18
Paul Scherrer Institute,
Villigen, Switzerland
19
Institute of Physics, University of Latvia,
Salaspils, Latvia
IPUL
20
Stockholm University -Manne Siegbahn Laboratory,
Stockholm, Sweden
SU-MSL
PSI