Technical Requirements

Very high intensity

• Dealing with very high intensities is the source of new challenges in several technical aspects of the device :
• the targets should be able to cope with very high power dissipation
• the reaction products should seperated from the beam ions before they can be detected
• the full optics of the spectrometer should reduce the background coming from scattered ions and activation products
• the facility should be designed in consideration with safety standards

Versatility of detection

The vast array of different physics that could be possible with S³ implies that it should be compatible with various detection settings:

• a Recoil Decay Tagging at the focal plane of the spectrometer

• measurement of ions momentum, mass and scattering angle with good resolution
• gamma and/or particle spectroscopy at the secondary reaction point or at the final focal plane
• detection at very low energy for precise mass measurement or laser spectroscopy in traps