Sources for Production of Radioactive Ion-Beams

This report reviews the special ionsource technique which is used to produce such secondary beams suitable for injection into an accelerating structure. A short introduction is given to the already well developed ion source and target technique in which on-line nuclear reactions are used continuously to produce and refine the unstable source feed material and convert it into a low energy singly charged DC beam. Emphasis is then given to a discussion of the techniques applied to fulfil the particular new requirements set to the radioactive ion sources in order efficiently match modern accelerators