[en] The availability of Radioactive Ion Beams (RIBs) will signal the dawn of a new era in heavy-ion science. In this context, a brief overview of the scientific motivation and the technological challanges to be overcome for building RIB facilities are discussed in this article. The activities in this direction being presently carried out globally are presented briefly with special emphasis on Indian efforts

[en] The SHARAQ project is presented along high-resolution nuclear spectroscopy using RI beams, where the characteristics of intermediate-energy charge exchange reactions of RI beams are discussed. The present status of construction of the SHARAQ spectrometer and the high-resolution beam line is presented. (author)

[en] The advent of Radioactive Nuclear Beam facilities will soon open new perspectives for nuclear structure studies. However, they will never provide the same wealth of data as stable beam facilities. Recent studies have shown that B(E2;0₁⁺2₁⁺) values have a high degree of sensitivity to structural features. We developed several techniques to obtain these values by low-energy Coulomb excitation of Radioactive Nuclear Beams in inverse kinematics on low Z targets. The methods are based on the measurement of the decay curve as the Coulomb excited nuclei decay in-flight. The apparatus will be described and recent results of test runs with stable beams will be presented

[en] The past two decades have seen extraordinarily rapid development of radioactive beam physics throughout the world and in particular in Europe. The important scientific advances have stemmed from a large number of facilities. Previously existing stable beam machines have been adapted to produce rare isotope beams and dedicated facilities have come on-line. This talk gives an overview of the present European installations highlighting their complementary nature. The European roadmap calls for the construction of two next generation facilities: FAIR making use of projectile fragmentation and EURISOL based on the ISOL technique. The future FAIR facility will be described and the path towards EURISOL presented in the light of the construction of 'intermediate' generation facilities SPIRAL2, HIE ISOLDE and SPES and results from the ongoing EURISOL Design Study.

[en] There is considerable interest worldwide in the research which could be done at a next generation, advanced radioactive beam facility. To generate high quality, intense beams of accelerated radionuclides via the open-quotes isotope separator on-lineclose quotes (ISOL) method requires two major accelerator components: a high power (100 kW) driver device to produce radionuclides in a production target/ion source complex, and a secondary beam accelerator to produce beams of radioactive ions up to energies on the order of 10 MeV per nucleon over a broad mass range. In reviewing the technological challenges of such a facility, several types of modem linear accelerators appear well suited. This paper reviews the properties of the linacs currently under construction and those proposed for future facilities for use either as the driver device or the radioactive beam post-accelerator. Other choices of accelerators, such as cyclotrons, for either the driver or secondary beam devices of a radioactive beam complex will also be compared. Issues to be addressed for the production accelerator include the choice of ion beam types to be used for cost-effective production of radionuclides. For the post-accelerator the choice of ion source technology is critical and dictates the charge-to-mass requirements at the injection stage

[en] The status of the new Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is slated to start its scientific program late this year is discussed, as is the new experimental equipment which is being constructed at this facility. Information on the early scientific program also is given

[en] In the last 15 years the FRIBs@LNS facility has successfully produced Radioactive Ion Beams using the In-Flight technique. We report on the current status and future perspectives opened by FRAISE, a new fragment separator that will be build in connection with the upgrade of Superconducting Cyclotron of the INFN-LNS laboratories. (paper)

[en] The planned West-European radioactive ion beam (RIB) facilities based on the ISOL-type two-accelerator method is discussed in conjunction with the report of the Nupecc Study Group on radioactive beams. Special attention is paid to the different aspects entering into an ISOL-type facility. The relative merits of the proposed facilities are discussed and the main conclusions of the Nupecc Study Group are presented. (orig./HP)

[en] Ion beam equipment can be considered as one of the best analytic techniques of this century. Beams of about every stable nucleus on earth are available from milli-eV to several giga-eV. However, it is intended to create energy-rich beams of radioactive seconds living radioisotopes. Briefly, attention is paid to what is expected from such radioactive ion beams. 2 figs., 4 refs

[en] On June 30, 1992, the Holifield Heavy Ion Research Facility (HHIRF) was shut down as an operating national users' facility for heavy ion physics research and became a construction project to reconfigure the existing accelerator system and develop a first-generation radioactive ion beam (RIB) facility. During its 11 years of operation, the HHIRF had over 600 users, of which 200 were graduate students. During this time, nearly 39,000 hours of beam were delivered as beam-on-target for nuclear, atomic, and applied research. All together, 69 different isotopes from 36 different elements were accelerated for scheduled experiments. Most beams were produced with only the 25-MV tandem accelerator; however, for the most energetic beams and the heaviest ions, the Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron (ORIC) was used as an energy booster. This paper will briefly review the concept of the ORNL RIB project and describe the progress being made on the various hardware components and physics factors required to produce RIBs with the HHIRF accelerator system