Blurring the boundaries between ion sources: The application of the RILIS inside a FEBIAD type ion source at ISOLDE

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2016.03.005
• Publication Date: 2016-04-11T12:19:01Z
• Authors: T. Day Goodacre; J. Billowes; R. Catherall; T.E. Cocolios; B. Crepieux; D.V. Fedorov; V.N. Fedosseev; L.P. Gaffney; T. Giles; A. Gottberg; K.M. Lynch; B.A. Marsh; T.M. Mendonça; J.P. Ramos; R.E. Rossel; S. Rothe; S. Sels; C. Sotty; T. Stora; C. Van Beveren; M. Veinhard
• Keywords: Nuclear and High Energy Physics; RILIS; Resonance laser ionization; VADLIS; 7. Clean energy; Ion source; ISOLDE; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; resonance laser ionization; ion source; Instrumentation

For the first time, laser resonance photo-ionization technique has been applied inside a FEBIAD-type ion source at an ISOL facility. This was achieved by combining ISOLDE RILIS with variant of FEBIAD (the VADIS) in series off-line and on-line tests CERN. The immediate applications these developments include coupling molten targets introduction two new modes operation: element selective mode + VADIS for increased efficiency compared to operation alone. functionality demonstrated gallium barium mercury cadmium. Following this work, successfully study nuclear ground state isomer properties isotopes in-source ionization spectroscopy. results from studies operational modes, what termed Versatile Arc Discharge Laser Ion Source (VADLIS), are presented possible directions future outlined.