Author: Bandura, L.L.
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TUPPD031 Novel Techniques for Isotope Harvesting at FRIB 1470
 
  • M.A.C. Cummings
    Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
  • L.L. Bandura
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Exotic isotopes have applications in medicine, industry, and national security. Historically, the U.S. has relied on foreign sources for these isotopes. FRIB will be a domestic source of these isotopes. While FRIB is mainly focused on producing exotic isotopes for basic nuclear physics experiments, it also offers an opportunity to harvest unused isotopes for other applications. It is critical that isotope harvesting take place in a synergistic manner that does not adversely affect experiments that will be simultaneously taking place at the facility. Beam optics schemes will be calculated to determine the best locations and methods of separation. These calculations will use COSY Monte Carlo and G4beamline in conjunction with other state of the art ion optical codes that simulate isotope dynamics in magnetic fields and in matter. The results of these simulations will be used to determine the best beam-target combinations to produce the isotopes that are most in-demand and calculate purities of these isotopes in multiple locations in the fragment separators. Trapping and extraction schemes will also be described to maximally recover pure isotope samples.