Instrumentation

Argonne’s Physics Division maintains and develops new instrumentation to enhance the capabilities of ATLAS and other related facilities. Specific capabilities of different instrumentation components are described below.

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Argonne Gas-Filled Analyzer

AGFA is a state-of-the-art gas-filled separator at ATLAS, which can be used for studies of heavy and superheavy nuclei as well as to prepare exotic radioactive beams for mass measurements and laser spectroscopy.

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Argonne In-Flight Radioactive Ion Separator (RAISOR)

Argonne In-Flight Radioactive Ion Separator (RAISOR), a system of selecting and purifying radioactive ion beams (RIB) created via the in-flight process, consists of a magnetic chicane separator and an RF sweeper.

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Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU)

The facility allows for fast, efficient and essential chemistry-free extraction of fission fragments.

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Canadian Penning Trap

The Canadian Penning Trap (CPT) is used to conduct precise mass measurements of nuclides available at the ATLAS facility. By measuring the cyclotron frequency of the ions, a precise determination of the mass can be made.

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Fragment Mass Analyzer

The Fragment Mass Analyzer (FMA) is a recoil mass separator. It separates products of nuclear reactions from unreacted beams and disperses them according to their mass-to-charge state ratio (M/q).

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Gammasphere

Gammasphere is one of the world’s most powerful spectrometers for nuclear structure research and is especially suited to collecting gamma-ray data following the fusion of heavy ions.

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GRETINA

GRETINA is a new type of gamma-ray spectrometer used to study the structure and properties of atomic nuclei.

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Helical Orbit Spectrometer

The Helical Orbit Spectrometer (HELIOS) is a charged-particle spectrometer designed to study reactions with radioactive ion beams.

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The N=126 Factory

The N=126 factory is a new experimental system at ATLAS developed to provide low-energy mass separated beam of radioactive isotopes produced through multi-nucleon transfer reactions.