FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University is building a heavy ion linac to produce rare isotopes by the fragmentation method. The linac will accelerate ions up to U to energies above 200 MeV/u with beam powers up to 400 kW. At energies between 16 and 20 MeV/u the ions will be stripped to higher charge states to increase the energy gain downstream in the linac. The main challenges in the stripper design are due to the high power deposited by the ions in the stripping media (~ 30 MW/cm3) and radiation damage if solids are used. For that reason self-recovering stripper media must be used. The baseline stripper choice is a high-velocity, thin film of liquid lithium with an alternative option of a helium gas stripper. We present in this paper the status of the R&D and construction of the final stripper. Extensive experimental work has been performed on both options.
