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Heavy-Ion Beam Acceleration at RIKEN for the Super-Heavy Element Search | |
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The RIKEN heavy ion linac (RILAC) is composed of a variable-frequency Wideröe linac, an 18 GHz ECR ion source, a variable-frequency folded-coaxial radio frequency quadrupole linac (FC-RFQ) as a pre-injector, and a Charge-State Multiplier system (CSM) as a booster. The operation of RILAC was started to supply heavy ion beams for experiments in 1981. The 18 GHz ECR ion source and the FC-RFQ were installed in 1996. The CSM was installed in 2000. The maximum beam energy, boosted by the CSM, is 6.0 MeV/nucleon. A GAs-filled Recoil Isotope Separator (GARIS) was moved from the E1 experiment room of the RRC to the No. 1 target room of the RILAC in 2000. In RIKEN Nishina center, the experiment on the super-heavy element (Z=113) search was carried out at RILAC from September 2003 to October 2012. As a result, three events for Z=113 have been successfully observed. The heavy-ion beam acceleration at RIKEN for the super-heavy element search will be reported. | ||