Eur. Phys. J. A (2005) 25: 737-738
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-137-6

ENAM 2004

GANIL and the SPIRAL2 project

GANIL (DSM/CEA, IN2P3/CNRS), BP 55027, France

^* e-mail: mittig@ganil.fr

Received: 15 January 2005
Accepted: 19 March 2005
Published online: 4 July 2005

Abstract

Based on a multibeam high intensity driver (5mA of deuterons, 1mA of heavy ions) a detailed project study for Spiral2 was started in November 2002 in a large collaboration. Fission rates of up to 10¹³/s will be possible with standard density UC (2.3g/cm^3), and up to 10¹⁴/s with high density (11g/cm^3) UC. Fission may be induced either by neutrons from a converter, or with direct beams. The multibeam driver will allow other high intensity beams, with energies up to 14MeV/nucleon for A/Q = 3. The radioactive ions will be accelerated by the existing CIME cyclotron, with energies of 1.7-25MeV/nucleon.