PROGRESS, STATUS, AND PLANS FOR THE HRIBF PROJECT' D. K. Olsen Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. 0. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6368 Facsimile (61 5) 574-1 268 Telephone (61 5) 574-61 22 R. L. Auble, G. D. Alton, J. D. Bailey,* M. R. Dinehart, C. L. Dukes, D. T. Dowling, D. L. Haynes, C. M. Jorfes,3S. N. Lane, C. T. LeCroy, R. C. Juras, M. J. Meigs, G. D. Mills, S. W. Mosko, P. E. Muelter, S. N. Murray, B. A. Tatum, R. F. Welton,4 and H. Wollniks Abstract Over the last three years, the Holifield accelerator system has been reconfigured into a first-generation radioactive ion beam facility, the HRIBF, a national user facility for RIB research. The construction and reconfiguration have been completed and the equipment commissioning and beam development 7hases have started. The progress to date, the present status, and future plans will be given. The special problems connected with the production and acceleration of RIBS will be discussed. Managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Systems under contract No. DE-AC05-840R21400 with the U.S. Department of Energy. 2Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Researchand University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 3Personal services subcontract. 40ak Ridge Associated Universities and Georgia fnstitute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. 5University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany. The submitted manusPipt has been aulhored a Con(rad0r of the US Government under cadnd No. DE- ACO5-840R21400. Aum&@y, the US. Government relains a nonexclusive. royalty-free license lo pubsh OT reproduce the puMished fom of this contrbution. u a h others to cb so, lor US. Government Pwpases.'