A detailed analytical model has been developed to simulate isotope-releasecurves from thin-foils ISOL
targets. It involves the separate modeling of diffusion and effusion inside the target.The former has been
modeled using both first and second Fick'slaw.The latter,effusion from the surface of the target material
to the end of the ionizer, was simulated with the Monte Carlo code Mol Flowþ. The calculated delay-time
distribution for this process was then fitted using a double-exponential function. There lease curve
obtained from the convolution of diffusion and effusion shows good agreement with experimental data
from two different target geometries used at ISOLDE. Moreover, the experimental yields are well re-
produced when combining there lease fraction with calculated in-target production
At ISAC-TRIUMF, a 500 MeV proton beam is impinged upon “thick” targets to induce nuclear reactions to produce reaction products that are delivered as a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) to experiments. Uranium carbide is among the most commonly used target materials which produces a vast radionuclide inventory coming from both spallation and fission-events. This can also represent a major limitation for the successful delivery of certain RIBs to experiments since, for a given mass, many isobaric isotopes are to be filtered by the dipole mass separator. These contaminants can exceed the yield of the isotope of interest by orders of magnitude, often causing a significant reduction in the sensitivity of experiments or even making them impossible.
The design of a 50 kW proton-to-neutron (p2n) converter-target is ongoing to enhance the production of neutron-rich nuclei while significantly reducing the rate of neutron-deficient contaminants. The converter is made out of a bulk tungsten block which converts proton beams into neutrons through spallation. The neutrons, in turn, induce pure fission in an upstream UCx target. The present target design and the service infra-structure needed for its operation will be discussed in this paper.
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