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Novel method for the production of spin-aligned RI beams in projectile fragmentation reaction with the dispersion matching technique

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A novel method to produce spin-aligned rare-isotope (RI) beam has been developed, that is the two-step projectile fragmentation method with a technique of dispersion matching. The present method was verified in an experiment at the RIKEN RIBF, where an RI beam of 32Al with spin alignment of 8(1) % was successfully produced from a primary beam of 48Ca, with 33Al as an intermediate nucleus. Figure of merit of the present method was found to be improved by a factor larger than 50 compared with a conventional method employing single-step projectile fragmentation.

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  1. Y. Ichikawa

    Present address: Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan

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  1. RIKEN Nishina Center, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Y. Ichikawa, H. Ueno, D. Kameda, H. Watanabe, N. Aoi, N. Fukuda, N. Inabe, M. Ishihara, T. Kubo, T. Ohnishi & H. Takeda

  2. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan

    Y. Ishii, K. Asahi, H. Hayashi, H. Iijima, T. Inoue, T. Nanao, K. Suzuki & M. Tsuchiya

  3. Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Ohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan

    T. Furukawa

  4. Research Core for Extreme Quantum World, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    A. Yoshimi

  5. Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria

    D. L. Balabanski

  6. CEA, DAM, DIF, 91297, Arpajon, France

    R. Chevrier & J. M. Daugas

  7. CSNSM, IN2P3-CNRS, Université Paris-sud, 91405, Orsay, France

    G. Georgiev

  8. Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, K. U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    M. M. Rajabali

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Y.I. is grateful to the Special Postdoctoral Researchers Program, RIKEN. This work was partly supported by the JSPS KAKENHI (22340071 and 20532089), by the JSPS and MAEE under the Japan-France Integrated Action Program (SAKURA), and by the Bulgarian National Fund (grant DID-02/16).

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Ichikawa, Y., Ueno, H., Ishii, Y. et al. Novel method for the production of spin-aligned RI beams in projectile fragmentation reaction with the dispersion matching technique. Hyperfine Interact 220, 47–51 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-012-0682-8

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