Recent developments of the EXCYT project

The EXCYT project at LNS, Catania, Italy aims for the production of radioactive ion beams to be accelerated by a tandem up to 8 MeV/amu. The primary beam coming from an ECR ion source goes into a K800 cyclotron and then to the target-ion source assembly. Here the species of interest are produced mainly by projectile fragmentation in a target thicker than the projectile range. The products diffuse through the heated target, are desorbed from its surface and go to the ion source via a transfer line. After ionization, the products are mass-separated and injected into the tandem to be post-accelerated and delivered to the users. It is worth noting that besides the post acceleration there is also an option to supply 300 keV beams for low energy experiments. In the following, the status of the project will be described in detail.