Extraction of diffusion coefficients from the study of Rb release in different carbon catchers

Julien Guillot (1) , Brigitte Roussière (1) , Pascal Jardin (2) , Emeline Charon (3) , Ugo Forestier-Colleoni (3) , Romain Lafourcade (3) , Martine Mayne-L’hermite (3) , Elie Borg (1) , Vincent Bosquet (2) , François Brisset (4) , Wenling Dong (1) , Stéphane Jourdain (1) , Matthieu Lebois (1, 5) , Damien Thisse (1)

1 IJCLab - Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie
2 GANIL - Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds
3 LEDNA - Laboratoire Edifices Nanométriques
4 ICMMO - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay
5 IUF - Institut universitaire de France

New Target-Ion Source Systems combining a target and a catcher material are developed in the radioactive beam community, in particular at GANIL, in order to maximise the yield of very short lived atoms by minimizing the atom-to-ion transformation time. The aim of this study is to characterize the release properties of 81Rb collected on two graphite catchers and two carbon nanotube catchers. The release fractions were measured at various catcher-heating temperatures and then compared to the analytical expressions relevant to each catcher. This comparison led to the extraction of the pre-exponential factor (D0) and the activation energy (Eact) involved in the diffusion coefficient of Rb for three carbon microstructures. All these data allowed to define an ideal catcher which could be made of aligned carbon nanotubes of small diameter and oriented in order to collect all the 81Rb atoms produced by the target but also to release them efficiently.

Domaines: Matériaux

Julien Guillot, Brigitte Roussière, Pascal Jardin, Emeline Charon, Ugo Forestier-Colleoni, et al.. Extraction of diffusion coefficients from the study of Rb release in different carbon catchers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 2022, 526, pp.9-18. ⟨10.1016/j.nimb.2022.06.005⟩. ⟨cea-03695957⟩