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At GSI a new facility for the acceleration of heavy ions to relativistic energies was designed. A large synchrotron dubbed SIS will provide high current heavy ion beams in the extremely broad energy range from 20 MeV/u up to 14 GeV/u. The UNILAC - a 10 MeV/u linear accelerator now in use for atomic and nuclear physics - will serve with a few pulses per second as injector machine for the synchrotron. In order to boost beam intensities up to 2 mA by acceleration of singly or doubly charged ions a small new injector linear accelerator will be installed in front of the UNILAC. In a review of relativistic heavy ion accelerators the SIS will be compared to other concepts. Relevant design features such as charge exchange processes and vacuum requirements are discussed.
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Blasche, K., Böhne, D., Franzke, B. (1980). SIS - An Accelerator Facility for Relativistic Heavy Ions. In: Newman, W.S. (eds) 11th International Conference on High-Energy Accelerators. Experientia Supplementum, vol 40. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5540-2_23
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