Current status and future experimental program of the SHARAQ spectrometer

The high‐resolution SHARAQ spectrometer and the dedicated high‐resolution beam‐line have been constructed at the RI beam factory and commissioned in 2009. Multi‐wire drift chambers placed in the beam‐line and cathode read‐out drift chambers placed at the SHARAQ focal plane worked well for heavy ion beams with Z=1–7 at 200–300 MeV/nucleon. By introducing a dispersion matched operation of the beam‐line, we have achieved a momentum resolution of δp/p = 1/8100 for a primary beam of 14N beam with a momentum spread of ±0.1%. Experiments by use of novel RI‐beam induced charge exchange reactions are planned.