  We report on the design, installation, and test of an experimental facility
for the production of ultra-cold atomic isotopes and isomers of cesium. The
setup covers a broad span of mass numbers and nuclear isomers, allowing one to
directly compare chains of isotopes and isotope/isomer pairs. Cesium nuclei are
produced by fission or fusion-evaporation reactions using primary proton beams
from a 130 MeV cyclotron impinging upon a suitable target. The species of
interest is ejected from the target in ionic form, electrostatically
accelerated, mass separated, and routed to a science chamber. Here, ions are
neutralized by implantation in a thin foil, and extracted by thermal diffusion.
A neutral vapor at room temperature is thus formed and trapped in a
magneto-optical trap. Real-time fluorescence imaging and destructive absorption
imaging provide information on the number of trapped atoms, their density, and
their temperature. Tests with a dedicated beam of $^{133}$Cs$^{+}$ ions at 30
keV energy confirm neutralization, evaporation, and laser cooling to 150
$\mu$K, with an average atomic density of 10$^{10}$ cm$^{-3}$. Availability of
cold and dense atomic samples of Cs isotopes and isomers opens new avenues for
high-precision measurements of isotopic and isomeric shifts thereby gaining
deeper insight into the nuclear structure, as well as for sensitive
measurements of isotopes' concentration ratios in trace quantities. The
facility also constitutes the core for future experiments of many-body physics
with nuclear isomers.
