The TRIμP facility, under construction at KVI, requires the production and separation of short-lived and rare isotopes. Direct reactions, fragmentation and fusion-evaporation reactions in normal and inverse kinematics are foreseen to produce nuclides of interest with a variety of heavy-ion beams from the superconducting cyclotron AGOR. For this purpose, we have designed, constructed and commissioned a versatile magnetic separator that allows efficient injection into an ion catcher, i.e., gas-filled stopper/cooler or thermal ionizer, from which a low energy radioactive beam will be extracted. The separator performance was tested with the production and clean separation of 21Na ions, where a beam purity of 99.5% could be achieved. For fusion-evaporation products, some of the features of its operation as a gas-filled recoil separator were tested.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0509013,
title = {Dual Magnetic Separator for TRI$\mu$P},
author = {G. P. A. Berg and O. C. Dermois and U. Dammalapati and P. Dendooven M. N. Harakeh and K. Jungmann and C. J. G. Onderwater and A. Rogachevskiy and M. Sohani and E. Traykov and L. Willmann and H. W. Wilschut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0509013},
year = {2009}
}