Production of high-intensity RIB at SPES

The SPES Project at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro SPES Technichal Design Report - www.lnl.infn.it/~spes/TDR2008/ is now in its early construction phase. SPES is an ISOL type Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) J.Khalili, E. Roeckl, The Euroschool Lect. on Phys. with Exotic Beams, Vol. II, Springer (2006) facility for the production of neutron-rich radioactive nuclei by uranium fission. RIBs will be produced by proton induced fission on a UCx multi foil direct target at a rate of 1013 fps, more than one order of magnitude larger than the currently available beam intensities. The recent developments on the production, ionization and acceleration of RIBs at SPES are hereafter presented.