A. Dainelli

Radioactive Ion Beams at INFN Laboratories

The LNS and the LNL are the two laboratories of INFN devoted to the research on nuclear physics. Since the 1995 the LNS are involved in the design and construction of the Radioactive Ion Beam facilities called EXCYT. In the early of 2000 the LNL starts a project for second generation RIB facilities called SPES. In the 2004 at the LNS we start also the production of RIB by in flight fragmentation. Here the status and perspective of these three projects are presented.

The SPES Direct Target Project at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro

The construction of the Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) Facility SPES‐DT, within the framework of the new European RIB panorama is under study at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro. The present project will be devoted to the production of neutron rich exotic nuclei, by using the fission process induced by a 40 MeV proton beam, 200 μA current, on a multi‐sliced Uranium Carbide (UCx) target. The UCx multiple thin disks target, developed at LNL is designed so that the power released by the proton beam is mainly dissipated by irradiation. Following the idea of the existing HRIBF facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) where a proton primary beam of 40 MeV is also used, our target configuration is an evolution which permits to sustain a higher power on target. A high number of fission products (up to 1013 fission/s) will be obtained, still keeping a low power density deposition inside the target. The whole facility, together with the details on the Direct Target configuration, will be described. Thermo‐mec...