Physicist Guy
Savard checks a “catcher cell” that will be an integral
part of the proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator. The helium-filled
cell will slow energetic, unstable ions to a near-stop using a
combination of radio frequency and static electric fields. The
ions can then be extracted in a few thousandths of a second and
re-accelerated toward experiment areas at a known, uniform energy.
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