Status and perspectives of the EXCYT facility at INFN-LNS

The aim of the EXCYT (EXotics with CYclotron and Tandem) facility is the production and acceleration of radioactive ion beams (RIBs). A primary beam provided by the K-800 superconducting cyclotron will produce. in a target-ion source complex (TIS), the required nuclear species which call be used for low energy experiments (up to 300 keV) or at higher energy by post-accelerating them with the 15 MV tandem. The nuclear experiments programme started ill July 2006 with the experiments BIGBANG and RCS using the post-accelerated Li-8 ions. Since then Li-8, Li-9 and Na-21 beams have been already produced and in the near future production of oxygen, fluorine and chlorine beams have been planned, according to the experimental proposals. with beam intensities ranging between 10(4) to 10(6) pps and at the typical energies of our tandem. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.