STATUS OF THE RARE ISOTOPE REACCELERATOR FACILITY RΕA*

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is currently in the preliminary design phase at Michigan State University (MSU) [1]. FRIB consists of a driver linac for the acceleration of heavy ion beams, followed by a fragmentation target station and a ReAccelerating facility (ReA). While FRIB is expected to start commissioning in 2018, the first stage of ReA called ReA3 is already under commissioning [2, 3]. ReA was connected to the Coupled Cyclotron Facility at MSU in 2012 and has delivered its first radioactive ion beam to the experimental hall in 2013. An overview of the facility will be discussed. In addition, this paper focuses on the technical progress and first commissioning results with radioactive ion beams.