ATLAS

Robert V. F. Janssens, Scientific Director of ATLAS

Welcome to ATLAS, the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System. As a scientist interested in using our facility for research or as a casual visitor, we are happy to have you browse our web site. Also, if you are interested, we would cordially receive your visit, show you our facility and share with you our enthusiasm for the science. A one page brochure (pdf format) describing ATLAS is available here.

ATLAS is the world's first superconducting linear accelerator for heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. This is the energy domain best suited to study the properties of the nucleus, the core of matter, the fuel of stars.

ATLAS is a National User Facility and as such hosts 200 - 300 Users each year. It is supported by the Office of Nuclear Physics of the Department of Energy. The Users come from U.S. universities and national laboratories as well as from foreign institutions. The facility is also accessible to industrial Users.

During a Users workshop held in the summer of 2004, an updated mission statement for ATLAS as well as a strategic plan for the facility were approved. Please click here to have a look. To see the presentation on the proposed Californium upgrade (CARIBU), click here .

Users of ATLAS take advantage of the existing experimental equipment such as, for example, the Canadian Penning Trap (CPT), the Fragment Mass Analyzer (FMA), the magnetic spectrograph and Gammasphere. Beam lines are also available for experiments where Users bring their own equipment. The Physics support group is available to assist the Users in all preparations for their measurements.

Beam time at ATLAS is granted on the basis of proposals which are reviewed by the ATLAS Program Advisory Committee. If you are interested in proposing an experiment as a first time User, please contact our User Liaison Physicist E. Frank Moore.

It is our hope that you will find on this web site the information that you are interested in. We welcome your suggestions and your questions.

Robert V. F. Janssens
Scientific Director of ATLAS

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If you would like additional information about ATLAS, you can also contact Ms. Barbara Weller in the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory at (630) 252-4044 or via email at: bweller@anl.gov