Commissioning of CYCLONE44, a cyclotron for low energy radioactive beams

Abstract

CYCLONE44 is a compact cyclotron dedicated to the acceleration and isobaric separation of unstable ions. It will cover an energy domain between 0.2 and 0.8 MeV per nucleon, and will be used for experiments in nuclear astrophysics. The design features of the machine, which has to combine a high acceleration efficiency and a high mass resolving power in order to provide pure radioactive beams in the presence of intense isobaric contaminants, is presented. The status of CYCLONE44, which has accelerated its first stable beam a few days before the conference, is reported.Anglai