Design And Construction Of A Water Target System For Harvesting Radioisotopes At The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Authors

Aranh Pen, Hope CollegeFollow
Tara Mastren, Washington University in St Louis
Graham F. Peaslee, Hope CollegeFollow
Kelly Petrasky, Hope College
Paul A. De Young, Hope CollegeFollow
David J. Morrissey, Michigan State University
Suzanne E. Lapi, Washington University in St Louis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-21-2014

Publication Source

Nuclear Instruments & Methods In Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors And Associated Equipment

Volume Number

747

First Page

62

Last Page

68

Publisher

Elsevier Science BV

ISSN

0168-9002

Abstract

A liquid water target system for harvesting radioisotopes at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) was designed and constructed as the initial step in proof-of-principle experiments to harvest useful radioisotopes from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). FRIB will be a new national user facility for nuclear science, to be completed in 2020, at which radioisotopes will be collected synergistically from the water in cooling-loops for the primary beam dump that cycle the water at flow rates in excess of hundreds of gallons per minute. As part of the development of radiochemical expertise required to harvest long-lived radioisotopes of interest in this environment, the water target system described here was constructed and successfully used to collect a test beam of relativistic Na-24 ions produced at the NSCL. Future studies will involve collecting interesting transition metal isotopes such as Cu-67 from less purified secondary projectile fragment beams. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

NSCL, FRIB, CU-67-2IT-BAT-LYM-1, Radioisotope Harvesting, Non-hodgkins-lymphoma, Silica Production, Radioimmunotherapy, Separator

Recommended Citation

Pen, Aranh, Tara Mastren, Graham F. Peaslee, Kelly Petrasky, Paul A. DeYoung, David J. Morrissey, and Suzanne E. Lapi. “Design and Construction of a Water Target System for Harvesting Radioisotopes at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 747 (May 21, 2014): 62–68. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.02.010.