Speaker
Description
RAON (Rare isotope Accelerator complex for ON-line experiments) is Korea's flagship heavy-ion accelerator facility, established to advance fundamental research on rare isotopes and their applications. The construction of the facility—including building infrastructure, installation of the low-energy superconducting linac (SCL3) with its injector system, the ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) rare isotope production system, and associated experimental systems—was completed in 2021. Following the completion of Phase I of the RAON construction project in 2022, the first beam commissioning of the low-energy linac SCL3 using stable argon beams was successfully conducted in December 2023. In March 2023, the RAON ISOL system produced its first rare isotope beam—sodium ions—by irradiating a SiC target with a 70 MeV proton beam from the cyclotron. In 2024, RAON began providing low-energy beams via the accelerator and ISOL system for user experiments. This talk presents the current status and an overview of the RAON heavy-ion accelerator facility.
| Email address | tsshin@ibs.re.kr |
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