Offline 2, ISOLDE’s target, laser and beams development facility

Abstract Offline 2 is an entirely new research and development mass separator laboratory for the ISOLDE facility located on the Meyrin site of CERN. It closely resembles beam production (for non-radioactive beams) of the on-line (radioactive) systems at ISOLDE with machine versatility and flexibility at the core of its design. The beam optics and down stream beam preparation can deliver bunched beams or continuous beams of negative or positive ions with kinetic energies up to 60 keV. The mass resolving power of the separator operating with a typical ISOLDE ion source is R ∼ 500 . All of this is housed within a highly accessible 125 m2 work area with multiple beam optics instruments to determine the beam quality, quantify modifications, develop new technologies and create alternate beam tunes, with the purpose of improving the beams and targets used during on-line operations.