Technical Description
In comparison with other facilities under construction or approved for construction in the world, the ISF will be unique by using a high-power heavy-ion driver linac capable of producing nearly 10 times more beam power.
The ISF is designed to take full advantage of the enormously versatile in-flight production technique and to provide opportunities for experiments over the full gamut of energies from rest to approximately 200 MeV/nucleon. Rare isotopes produced and separated in flight can be used directly for fast-beam experiments at 20-200 MeV/nucleon. The fragments can also be stopped in a gas cell from which they can be extracted and used for very-low energy experiments, or they can be reaccelerated up to 12 MeV/nucleon.
The ISF will have cutting-edge capabilities for rare isotope research and, in addition, flexibility for implementing selected science-driven upgrade options without significant disruption of the ongoing research program.
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Operation of NSCL as a national user facility is supported by the Experimental Nuclear Physics Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation.