The accelerated ISOL technique and the SPIRAL project Original Research Article

The accelerated ISOL technique is presented as an introduction to the present status of the SPIRAL facility. SPIRAL is based on the very high intensity light and heavy-ion beams available at GANIL. The facility will deliver radioactive beams with energies in the range between 1.7 and 25 AMeV. The current state of target-ion source production system, as well as the new developments undertaken by the target ion-source group at GANIL are presented.