Offline target and ion source studies for TRIUMF-ARIEL

Abstract The ARIEL facility, currently under construction at TRIUMF, brings two new target stations and a new electron driver beam from ARIEL’s e-linac to TRIUMF. With these upgrades comes a suite of new technologies and new methodologies specific to the challenges posed by the ARIEL target station design. Design validation through simulations, prototyping and testing are an indispensable part of the ARIEL development. Several offline test stands, becoming increasingly integrated as the tests progress, have been designed and constructed as part of the target station design validation process. The main test stands comprise a thermal test stand, an integrated assembly test stand and finally, a replica of the online station. These systems will be used to validate the new concepts and designs, and facilitate studies of particular aspects of the ARIEL design.