Eurisol

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The EURISOL project was conceived as a next-generation European ISOL radioactive ion beam (RIB) facility, designed to push the frontiers of atomic and nuclear physics by delivering unprecedented intensities of exotic ion beams and enabling research beyond the capabilities of existing infrastructures. RIB facilities make possible studies of exotic nuclei (neutron/proton-rich) far from stability; nuclear astrophysics with reactions for stellar nucleosynthesis and cosmology; applications in material science; fundamental tests for physics beyond the standard model. When the idea was first proposed, studies had also started towards constructing the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Germany, and proposals were made in the USA for the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA). Since FAIR was based on in-flight isotope separation, a technology distinct from the ISOL (Isotope Separation On-Line) method, it was soon realized that the two projects were complementary and would have provided a high-power facility for European scientists. The first step of EURISOL was a Feasibility Study co-financed by the European Commission under its Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) from 2000 to 2003. In the same years, several other ISOL projects were proposed, such as SPIRAL2 at GANIL (France), HIE-ISOLDE at CERN, and SPES at LNL, Legnaro (Italy), "smaller" scale facilities, now in operation.…

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