Development Plans - the Texas A&m Cyclotron Institute

A facility upgrade for the Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute would significantly extend our research capabilities as a stable beam facility with extended rare beam capabilities. This would be achieved by re-activating our 88" Cyclotron to deliver high intensity light particle and heavy ion beams, to be used 1.) for production of rare isotopes for acceleration in the K500 Cyclotron and 2.) as precursor beams to produce significantly higher intensity stripping and fragmentation beams in our MARS spectrometer. In addition to greatly extending the reach of the present TAMU research program, this facility could play a much wider role in support of the national accelerator based scientific research effort. This facility could also prove to be very useful for early testing of techniques to be employed in the Rare Isotope Accelerator, RIA, and in educating younger scientists for the RIA era.