Installation of the first equipment in the low-energy hall of the SPES facility: The SPES Beam Cooler is up and running!

The SPES (Selective Production of Exotic Species) project at LNL (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) in Italy, aims to build a facility to produce radioactive ion beams for research in fundamental and interdisciplinary physics.
The SPES Beam Cooler is an essential component of the beamline. It is a radio-frequency quadrupole that cools high-intensity ion beams. It was designed and built using the expertise of the laboratory’s various technical departments. This work was carried out under an international collaboration contract signed in 2018 with INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare).
In just two weeks, the LPC Caen team has delivered operational equipment to LNL, which has already cooled a few ions! The next step will be to qualify the SPES Beam Cooler with different ion beams. This will take place in early 2024.