Fig. 1.
Building blocks of an isotope-science facility based on a heavy-ion driver. For isotope production and separation in-flight, fast beams can be used directly, brought to rest in solids, or stopped in gas and extracted for use at very low energies or at higher energies after reacceleration. Light ions can be used to produce isotope beams by the ISOL technique for experiments at very low energies or at higher energies after acceleration.