Research Instruments Group

Research Areas

The research instruments group is the driving force at RI Beam Factory (RIBF) for continuous enhancement of activities and competitiveness of experimental research. Consisting of five teams, we are in charge of the construction, operation and improvement of the core research instruments at RIBF, such as BigRIPS separator, ZeroDegree spectrometer, GARIS spectrometer and SAMURAI spectrometer, and the related infrastructure and equipments. The group also conducts related experimental research as well as R&D studies on the research instruments.

Research Subject

1. Production and delivery of RI beams and related research
2. Construction, operation and improvement of the core research instruments at RIBF and their related infrastructure and equipments
3. R&D studies on the core research instruments and their related equipment at RIBF
4. Experimental research on exotic nuclei using the core research instruments at RIBF

Press release

RIKEN RESEARCH

List of Selected Publications

1. Toshiyuki Kubo
   "In-flight RI beam separator BigRIPS at RIKEN and elsewhere in Japan"
   Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B 204 97 (2003); doi:10.1016/S0168-583X(02)01896-7
2. T. Kubo et al.
   "Status and Overview of Superconducting Radioactive Isotope Beam Separator BigRIPS at RIKEN"
   IEEE Trans. Appl., Supercond., 17 1069 (2007); doi: 10.1109/TASC.2007.897203
3. T. Ohnishi, T. Kubo et al.
   "Identification of New Isotopes 125Pd and 126Pd produced by In-flight Fission of 345 MeV/nucleon 238U: First Results from the RIKEN RI Beam Factory"
   Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 77 083201 (2008); doi: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.083201
4. T. Ohnishi, T. Kubo et al.
   "Identification of 45 New Neutron-Rich Isotopes Produced by In-Flight Fission of a 238U Beam at 345 MeV/nucleon"
   Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 79 073201 (2010); doi: 10.1143/JPSJ.79.073201
5. L. Bandura, B. Erdelyi, M. Hausmann, T. Kubo, J. Nolen, M. Portillo and B. M.Sherrill.:
   "Fragment separator momentum compression schemes"
   Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 645 182 (2011); doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.12.015
6. D. Kameda, T. Kubo et al.:
   "Observation of new microsecond isomers among fission products from in-flight fission of 345 MeV/nucleon ²³⁸U"
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 054319 (2012); doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.054319
7. Toshiyuki Kubo et al.:
   "BigRIPS separator and ZeroDegree spectrometer at RIKEN RI Beam Factory"
   Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2012, 03C003 (11 pages); doi: 10.1093/ptep/pts064
8. N. Fukuda, T. Kubo et al.:
   "Identification and separation of radioactive isotope beams by the BigRIPS separator at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory"
   Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 317, 323 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2013.08.048
9. H. Takeda, T. Kubo et al.:
   """Extraction of 3D field maps of magnetic multipoles from 2D surface measurements with applications to the optics calculations of the large-acceptance superconducting fragment separator BigRIPS""
   "Nucl. Instr. Meth. B 317, 798 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2013.08.052

Laboratory Team