EURORIB'15

The continuous search for the most exotic radioactive ion beams is on-going since decades. The need to understand the fundamental physics around us leads us to try to reproduce the very first elements that existed in the beginning. While the research are ongoing and with the beams delivered new techniques for detection and manipulations of the beams are developed. With new beam and intensity...

The use of an Electron Beam Ion Source/Trap as charge breeder for radioactive ions is by now a well-established concept. The operational experience at REX-ISOLDE has highlighted strengths, the main being the purity of the extracted beam, but also short-comings, such as complexity. A summary of the standard breeder performance will be given in this paper. Since a few years CERN is actively...