The Canadian Rare Isotope facility with Electron Beam ion source (CANREB) is an essential part of the Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) presently under construction at TRIUMF. CANREB was recently commissioned and can accept stable or rare isotope beams from a variety of ion sources, delivering high purity beams of highly charged ions (HCI) to experiments. The injected beams are bunched using a radiofrequency quadrupole cooler-buncher and energy adjusted using a pulsed drift tube for injection into the electron beam ion source (EBIS) charge state breeder. The EBIS is designed for a maximum electron beam current of 500 mA and a maximum magnetic field of 6 T. Ions with energies up to 14 keV can be injected and HCI with mass-to-charge (A/q) ratios 3 ⩽ A/q ⩽ 7 can be charge bred and extracted. The HCI are A/q-selected using a Nier-type spectrometer before being transported to the ISAC linac for post-acceleration. Results from CANREB beam commissioning with focus on the EBIS will be presented.

With the development of next generation user facilities, low-energy nuclear science is entering an area of enhanced research opportunities. Simultaneously, smaller scale facilities with reduced reach to the valley of stability but capable of producing radioactive nuclei at competitive rates will become important to perform measurements that cannot be done at large facilities due to time constraints. Such a facility, is planned for the University of Notre Dame. Neutron-rich nuclei will be produced by the proton-induced fission of actinide targets following the IG-ISOL method. This new facility could provide neutron-rich ion beams for research on the r-process, but also proton-rich beams produced via transfer reactions for fundamental interaction studies in mirror transitions.

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Limited types of radioactive molecules (RM) can be made inside hot-cavity targets at ISOL facilities like TRIUMF. However, extreme conditions in these targets present formidable unsolved challenges to efficient production and delivery of RM’s. Here we propose using RFQ gas-reaction cells to produce RM from radioactive ion beams (RIB) by room temperature RIB-gas chemical reactions at eV energies. Two options are possible: (1) using an ion reaction cell (IRC) that is a linear RFQ ion guide and reaction cell used as an ‘on-line ion source’, and (2) using the ARIEL RFQ cooler-buncher (ARQB). RFQ gas-cells are a controllable and efficient method to produce RM from chemical reactants that cannot be used in ISOL targets. This ‘online chemistry’ offers a way to enable groundbreaking Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics research, using a wide diversity of new rare and exotic RM beams that would be difficult or impossible to produce in hot-cavity targets.