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Description
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) serves as the world’s most powerful heavy-ion accelerator. Currently operating at 20 kW, plans are underway to increase beam power by a factor of 20.
In operation since 2022, FRIB produces rare-isotope beams through in-flight fragmentation of high-power beams of stable heavy-ion isotopes ranging from oxygen to uranium at energies up to 200 MeV per nucleon. Besides high power, challenges unique to FRIB compared to most other hadron facilities include its location in an urban public setting and ever-changing beam conditions.
The role of the FRIB Radiation Transport Group is to provide analysis to underpin facility decisions on regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. Examples of recent group work are shown supporting the facility’s progress to higher power including fast estimator tools applicable for constantly-changing beam conditions and validation efforts.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics and used resources of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Operations, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility under Award Number DE-SC0023633.
| Topics | T1. Source terms, new accelerator facilities and related topics |
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