Status Of Isl

During the last couple of years the scientific activities at the former VICKSI [1] facility have been switched to applications of ion beam techniques in medicine modification of materials, and materials analyses. The nuclear physics programmes were no longer supported. With the new activities, the requirements on the accelerator specifications, beam guiding systems, and target areas have changed as well. The facility got the new name ISL1 (Ionen-Strahl-Labor). Within a period of 6 years the facility has been rearranged. Major projects in this reorientation process were the installation of a new RFQ accelerator operating as injector for the cyclotron and the installation of a medical beam line to treat ocular melanoma with fast protons.