From the contents: ISAC overview -- The TRIUMF 500 MeV cyclotron: the driver accelerator -- ISAC targets -- Rare isotope beams at ISAC—target & ion source systems -- Off line ion source terminal -- Charge state breeding of radioactive isotopes for ISAC -- ISAC LEBT -- The ISAC post-accelerator -- High energy beam lines -- The experimental facilities at ISAC.

The TRIUMF Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facility uses the isotope separation on-line (ISOL) technique to produce rare-isotope beams (RIB). The ISOL system consists of a primary production beam, a target/ion source, a mass separator, and beam transport system. The rare isotopes produced during the interaction of the proton beam with the target nucleus are stopped in the bulk of the target material. They diffuse inside the target material matrix to the surface of the grain and then effuse to the ion source where they are ionized to form an ion beam that can be separated by mass and then guided to the experimental facilities. Previously published in the journal Hyperfine Interactions.