Scarpa D, Vasquez J, Tomaselli A, Grassi D, Biasetto L, Cavazza A, Corradetti S, Manzolaro M, Montano J, Andrighetto A, Prete G
INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Viale dell'Università 2, Legnaro (PD), Italy.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2012 Feb;83(2):02B317. doi: 10.1063/1.3673628.
Selective production of exotic species (SPES) is an ISOL-based accelerator facility that will be built in the Legnaro INFN Laboratory (Italy), intended to provide an intense neutron-rich radioactive ion beams obtained by proton induced fission of an uranium carbide target. Beside this main target, a silicon carbide (SiC) target will the first to be used to deliver some p-rich beams. This target will validate also the functionality of the SPES facility with aluminum beam as result of hitting SiC target with protons. In the past off-line studies on laser photoionization of aluminum have performed in Pavia Spectroscopy Laboratory and in Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro where, recently, a XeCl excimer laser was installed in order to test the laser ionization in the SPES hot cavity. Results are promising to justify further studies with this technique, aiming a better characterization of the SPES ion extraction capability under laser photoionization.
