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A Cooler-Buncher for the N = 126 Factory

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A new facility is under development at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System to allow for precision measurements necessary for the determination of the r-process path around the N = 126 shell closure. This chapter provides an overview of this facility, and details on the construction and commissioning of an important component of the N = 126 factory, the radiofrequency quadrupole cooler-buncher, including a discussion of the physics of radiofrequency quadrupoles.

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Valverde, A.A. (2019). A Cooler-Buncher for the N = 126 Factory. In: Precision Measurements to Test the Standard Model and for Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30778-3_5

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