U.S.
Department of Energy’s Office of Science
Scientific User Facilities by Program Office
Advanced Scientific Computing
Research
Basic Energy Sciences
Biological and Environmental
Research
Fusion Energy Sciences
High Energy Physics
Nuclear Physics
Advanced
Scientific Computing Research
· Energy
Sciences Network (ESnet):
ESnet is a high-speed network serving thousands
of DOE scientists and collaborators worldwide.
A pioneer in providing high-bandwidth, reliable
connections, ESnet enables researchers at national
laboratories, universities and other institutions
to communicate with each other using the collaborative
capabilities needed to address some of the world's
most important scientific challenges. Managed
and operated by the ESnet staff at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides
direct connections to all major DOE sites with
high performance speeds, as well as fast interconnections
to more than 100 other networks. Funded principally
by DOE's Office of Science, ESnet services allow
scientists to make effective use of unique DOE
research facilities and computing resources,
independent of time and geographic location.
ESnet is funded by DOE’s Office of Science,
Advanced Scientific Computing Research program
to provide network and collaboration services
in support of the agency's research missions.
· National
Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC)
Center:
NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific
discovery through computation. NERSC provides
high-performance computing tools and expertise
that enable computational science of scale,
in which large, interdisciplinary teams of scientists
attack fundamental problems in science and engineering
that require massive calculations and have broad
scientific and economic impacts. Leading-edge
computing platforms and services make NERSC
the foremost resource for large-scale computation
within DOE's Office of Science, Advanced Scientific
Computing Research program.
Basic
Energy Sciences
Synchrotron Radiation Light Sources
· National
Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS):
NSLS, located at Brookhaven National Laboratory
in Upton, New York, is a national user research
facility funded by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences program. The NSLS operates
two electron storage rings: an X-Ray ring and
a Vacuum UltraViolet ring, which provide intense
light spanning the electromagnetic spectrum
from the infrared through x-rays. Each year
over 2500 scientists from universities, industries,
and government labs perform research at the
NSLS.
· Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL):
SSRL is located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, operated by Stanford University for
DOE. SSRL is a national user facility that provides
synchrotron radiation, a name given to x-rays
or light produced by electrons circulating in
a storage ring at nearly the speed of light.
These extremely bright x-rays can be used to
investigate various forms of matter ranging
from objects of atomic and molecular size to
man-made materials with unusual properties.
The obtained information and knowledge is of
great value to society, with impact in areas
such as the environment, future technologies,
health, and national security. SSRL is primarily
supported by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences and Biological and Environmental
Research programs.
· Advanced
Light Source (ALS):
ALS at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
is a national user facility that generates intense
light for scientific and technological research.
As one of the world's brightest sources of ultraviolet
and soft x-ray beams—and the world's first
third-generation synchrotron light source in
its energy range—the ALS makes previously
impossible studies possible. The facility welcomes
researchers from universities, industries, and
government laboratories around the world. ALS
is funded by the DOE's Office of Science, Basic
Energy Sciences program.
· Advanced
Photon Source (APS):
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne
National Laboratory is a national synchrotron-radiation
light source research facility funded by DOE’s
Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences program.
Using high-brilliance x-ray beams from the APS,
members of the international synchrotron-radiation
research community conduct forefront basic and
applied research in the fields of material science;
biological science; physics; chemistry; environmental,
geophysical, and planetary science; and innovative
x-ray instrumentation.
High-Flux Neutron Sources
· High
Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) Center for Neutron
Scattering:
The HFIR Center, located at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, is the highest flux reactor-based
source of neutrons for condensed matter research
in the U.S. The Center is a national user facility
funded by DOE’s Office of Science, Basic
Energy Sciences program. Thermal and cold neutrons
produced by the HFIR are used to study physics,
chemistry, materials science, engineering, and
biology.
· Intense
Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS):
IPNS, located at Argonne National Laboratory,
is a facility for research on condensed matter.
It is officially designated a national collaborative
research center, serving the needs of universities,
industry, and other government laboratories.
In addition to encouraging, aiding and performing
neutron scattering research, IPNS staff are
engaged in advancing pulsed neutron instrumentation,
ancillary equipment and technology, such as
targets, moderators, and detectors. The IPNS
is funded by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences program.
· Los
Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE):
LANSCE at Los Alamos National Laboratory provides
an intense pulsed source of neutrons for both
national security research and civilian research.
LANSCE is comprised of a high-power 800-MeV
proton linear accelerator, a proton storage
ring, production targets to the Manuel Lujan
Jr. Neutron Scattering Center and the Weapons
Neutron Research facility, and a variety of
associated experiment areas and spectrometers.
The Lujan Center features instruments for measurement
of high-pressure and high-temperature samples,
strain measurement, liquid studies, and texture
measurement. The facility has a long history
and extensive experience in handling actinide
samples. A new 30-Tesla magnet is available
for use with neutron scattering to study samples
in high-magnetic fields. LANSCE is funded in
part by DOE’s Office of Science, Basic
Energy Sciences program.
Electron Beam Microcharacterization
Centers
· Center
for Microanalysis of Materials (CMM):
The CMM is a world-class facility characterized
by the entirety of its complementary array of
microstructural and microchemical instrumentation
in one location. It places emphasis on in-situ
materials science at the atomic scale and has
developed several unique instruments permitting
dynamic studies in surface, interface, and thin
film science as well as deformation processes
in aggressive environments. CMM is one of four
collaborative research centers for electron
beam microcharacterization supported by DOE’s
Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences program.
· Electron
Microscopy Center (EMC) for Materials Research:
EMC, located at Argonne National Laboratory,
conducts materials research using advanced microstructural
characterization methods and through the use
of the microscope Intermediate Voltage Electron
Microscope. Research by EMC personnel includes
microscopy-based studies in high Tc superconducting
materials, irradiation effects in metals and
semiconductors, phase transformations, and processing-related
structure and chemistry of interfaces in thin
films. EMC is one of four collaborative research
centers for electron beam microcharacterization
supported by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences program.
· National
Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM):
NCEM, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
maintains world class capabilities in atomic
resolution electron microscopy. The facility
features several unique instruments, complemented
by strong expertise in computer image simulation
and analysis. The center also maintains one-of-a-kind
instruments for imaging of magnetic materials,
and develops techniques and instrumentation
for dynamic in-situ experimentation. NCEM is
one of four collaborative research centers for
electron beam microcharacterization supported
by DOE’s Office of Science, Basic Energy
Sciences program.
· Shared
Research Equipment (SHaRE) Program:
ShaRE, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
is a leading facility for the microscopy and
microanalysis of materials, with an emphasis
on analytical microscopy. ShaRE maintains a
suite of analytical electron microscopes, atom
probe field ion microscopes and mechanical properties
microprobes, with particular application to
the development of alloys and structural ceramics,
and the study of interfacial segregation, radiation
effects, microtexture and residual stress. SHaRE
provides a unique resource for atom probe field
ion microscopy and for the microcharacterization
of radioactive specimens on a routine basis.
ShaRE is one of four collaborative research
centers for electron beam microcharacterization
supported by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences program.
Specialized Single-Purpose Centers
· Combustion
Research Facility (CRF):
CRF, located at Sandia National Laboratories,
is home to about 100 scientists, engineers,
and technologists who conduct basic and applied
research focused on improving energy efficiency
and reducing emissions from the country's energy
conversion and utilization systems. The need
for a thorough and basic understanding of combustion
and combustion-related processes lies at the
heart of the research at the CRF. CRF is funded
by DOE’s Office of Science, Basic Energy
Sciences program.
· Materials
Preparation Center (MPC):
MPC at the Ames Laboratory is a DOE user facility
sponsored by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences program. MPC is recognized
throughout the worldwide research community
for its unique capabilities in the preparation,
purification, and characterization of rare earth,
alkaline-earth, and refractory metal materials.
· James
R. Macdonald Laboratory (JMRL):
JMRL at Kansas State University operates a 7-MV
tandem accelerator, a 9-MV superconducting linear
accelerator (LINAC) and a cryogenic electron
beam ion source (CRYEBIS) for the study of ion-atom
collisions with highly charged ions. The tandem
can operate as a stand-alone accelerator with
six dedicated beam lines. The LINAC is operated
as a booster accelerator to the tandem. The
tandem-LINAC combination has four beam lines
available. The CRYEBIS is a stand-alone facility
for studying collisions with bare ions at low
velocity. An ion-ion collision facility using
the CYREBIS and a new ECR ion source are under
development. The laboratory has a variety of
experimental apparatus for atomic physics research.
These include recoil ion sources, Auger electron
spectrometers, X-ray spectrometers, and a 45-inch-diameter
scattering chamber. The laboratory is available
to users who require the unique facilities of
the laboratory for atomic collision experiments.
JMRL is funded by DOE’s Office of Science,
Basic Energy Sciences program.
· Pulse
Radiolysis Facility:
The Pulse Radiolysis Facility within the Notre
Dame Radiation Laboratory at the University
of Notre Dame is based on a 2-100 ns electron
pulse from an 8-MeV linear accelerator. It is
fully instrumented for computerized acquisition
of optical and conductivity information on radiation
chemical intermediates having lifetimes of 5
ns and longer. An excimer laser/dye laser combination
is available for use at the pulse radiolysis
facility for double-pulse experiments involving
photolysis of radiolytic transients. Energies
of ~400 mJ at 308 nm and ~50 mJ at various near-UV
and visible wavelengths are available. This
facility is funded by DOE’s Office of
Science, Basic Energy Sciences program.
Biological
and Environmental Research
· William
R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
(EMSL):
EMSL is a DOE national scientific user facility
located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
funded by DOE’s Office of Science, Biological
and Environmental Research program. As a national
scientific user facility and a research organization,
EMSL provides advanced resources to scientists
engaged in fundamental research on the physical,
chemical and biological processes that underpin
critical scientific issues, conducts fundamental
research in molecular and computational sciences
to achieve a better understanding of biological
and environmental effects associated with energy
technologies—to provide a basis for new
and improved energy technologies, and in support
of DOE's other missions. EMSL also educates
scientists in the molecular and computational
sciences to meet the demanding challenges of
the future.
· Joint
Genome Institute (JGI):
JGI, established in 1997, is one of the largest
and most productive publicly funded human genome
sequencing institutes in the world. JGI was
founded by three DOE national laboratories managed
by the University of California: Lawrence Berkeley
and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories,
and Los Alamos National Laboratory, funded by
DOE’s Office of Science, Biological and
Environmental Research program. JGI assumed
a significant role in the effort to determine
the 3 billion letters ("base pairs")
worth of genetic text that make up the human
genome and currently conducts genome sequencing
programs that include vertebrates, fungi, plants,
bacteria, and other single-celled microbes.
· Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM):
The ARM program maintains observation sites
in the Southern Great Plains, the Tropical Western
Pacific, and the North Slope of Alaska, gathering
data on solar (incoming) and infrared (outgoing)
radiation to improve the modeling of clouds
and radiation in general circulation climate
models. This program is funded by DOE’s
Office of Science, Biological and Environmental
Research program.
· Structural
Biology Center (SBC):
SBC operates a national user facility for macromolecular
crystallography at Sector 19 of the Advanced
Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
The SBC makes available to scientific community
two experimental stations: an insertion-device,
19ID, and a bending-magnet, 19BM and a biochemistry
laboratory. SBC beamlines are well suited for
a wide range of crystallographic experiments.
SBC receives support from DOE’s Office
of Science, Biological and Environmental Research
program.
Fusion
Energy Sciences
· DIII-D
Tokamak Facility:
DIII-D, located at General Atomics in San Diego,
California, is the largest magnetic fusion facility
in the U.S. and is operated as a DOE national
user facility. DIII-D has been a major contributor
to the world fusion program over the past decade
in areas of plasma turbulence, energy and particle
transport, electron-cyclotron plasma heating
and current drive, plasma stability, and boundary
layers physics using a “magnetic divertor”
to control the magnetic field configuration
at the edge of the plasma. DOE’s Office
of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences program is
a major supporter in the operation of this facility.
· Alcator
C-Mod:
Alcator C-Mod at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology is operated as a DOE national
user facility. Alcator C-Mod is a unique, compact
tokamak facility that uses intense magnetic
fields to confine high-temperature, high-density
plasmas in a small volume. One of its unique
features are the metal (molybdenum) walls to
accommodate high power densities. Alcator C-Mod
has made significant contributions to the world
fusion program in the areas of plasma heating,
stability, and confinement of high field tokamaks,
which are important integrating issues related
to ignition of burning of fusion plasma. DOE’s
Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences program,
is a significant contributor to the operation
of this facility.
· National
Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX):
NSTX is an innovative magnetic fusion device
that was constructed by the Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory in collaboration with the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Columbia University,
and the University of Washington at Seattle.
It is one of the world’s two largest embodiments
of the spherical torus confinement concept.
Like DIII-D and Alcator C-Mod, NSTX is also
operated as a DOE national scientific user facility.
NSTX has a unique, nearly spherical plasma shape
that provides a test of the theory of toroidal
magnetic confinement as the spherical limit
is approached. Plasmas in spherical torii have
been predicted to be stable even when high ratios
of plasma-to-magnetic pressure and self-driven
current fraction exist simultaneously in the
presence of a nearby conducting wall bounding
the plasma. If these predictions are verified,
it would indicate that spherical torii use applied
magnetic fields more efficiently than most other
magnetic confinement systems and could, therefore,
be expected to lead to more cost-effective fusion
power systems in the long term. DOE’s
Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences program
is the major contributor to the operation of
this facility.
High
Energy Physics
· Tevatron
Collider:
Tevatron is the world's highest-energy particle
accelerator. It is located and managed by Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia,
Illinois. The Tevatron, four miles in circumference
and originally named the Energy Doubler when
it began operation in 1983, is the world's highest-energy
particle accelerator. Its 1,000 superconducting
magnets are cooled by liquid helium to -268
degrees C (-450 degrees F). Its low-temperature
cooling system was the largest ever built when
it was placed in operation in 1983. Two major
components of the Standard Model of Fundamental
Particles and Forces were discovered at Fermilab:
the bottom quark (May-June 1977) and the top
quark (February 1995). In July 2000, Fermilab
experimenters announced the first direct observation
of the tau neutrino, the last fundamental particle
to be observed. Filling the final slot in the
Standard Model, the tau neutrino set the stage
for new discoveries and new physics with the
inauguration of Collider Run II of the Tevatron
in March 2001. DOE’s Office of Science,
High Energy and Nuclear Physics program supports
the Tevatron Collider as well as 90 percent
of the federally funded research in high-energy
physics in the U.S.
· Main
Injector:
The Main Injector, completed in 1999, is an
accelerator facility at Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. It accelerates
particles and transfers beams. It has four functions:
(1) It accelerates protons from 8 GeV to 150
GeV. (2) It produces 120 GeV protons, which
are used for antiproton production (see picture
and text at bottom). (3) It receives antiprotons
from the Antiproton Source and increases their
energy to 150 GeV. (4) It injects protons and
antiprotons into the Tevatron. Inside the Main
Injector tunnel, physicists have also installed
an Antiproton Recycler (green ring). It stores
antiprotons that return from a trip through
the Tevatron, waiting to be re-injected. The
Main Injector is supported by DOE’s Office
of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program.
· Booster
Neutrino (BooNE):
BooNE is a facility managed by at Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
BooNE investigates the question of neutrino
mass by searching for neutrino oscillations
from muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos. This
is done by directing a muon neutrino beam into
the MiniBooNE detector and looking for electron
neutrinos. This experiment is motivated by the
oscillation results reported by the LSND experiment
at Los Alamos. By changing the muon neutrino
beam into an anti-neutrino beam, BooNE can explore
oscillations from muon anti-neutrinos to electron
anti-neutrinos. A comparison between neutrino
and anti-neutrino results will tell us about
CP- and CPT-violation. The BooNE collaboration
consists of approximately sixty-five physicists
from 13 institutions but is primarily supported
by DOE’s Office of Science, High Energy
and Nuclear Physics program.
· Neutrinos
at the Main Injector (NuMI):
NuMI is a facility at Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, that uses protons
from the Main Injector accelerator to produce
a beam of neutrinos aimed at the Soudan Mine
in Northern Minnesota. NuMI is supported by
DOE’s Office of Science, High Energy and
Nuclear Physics program.
· B-Factory:
The B-Factory at Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center near Menlo Park, California, consists
of a portion of the 3.2 kilometer- (2-mile-)
long linear accelerator, a set of circular storage
rings for electrons and positrons, and a large
detector. At this facility, beams of electrons
and positrons will collide nearly (but not quite)
head-on and make B mesons. The mesons, each
containing a bottom (or anti-bottom) quark will
decay after a short interval, providing information
about the mysterious CP-violation phenomenon.
B-Factory as well as the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center are supported by DOE’s Office of
Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics program.
· Next
Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA ):
NLCTA at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
near Menlo Park, California, is a small accelerator
that is a prototype for the Next Linear Collider
(NLC) accelerator design. This test facility
has been run using an NLC prototype klystron
and has produced electron bunch accelerations
that meet the NLC design criteria. Further testing
and prototyping is being carried out to design
and test efficient production methods for such
a structure. The NLCTA is supported by DOE’s
Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program.
· Final
Focus Test Beam (FFTB):
FFTB facility at Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center near Menlo Park, California, was built
in 1993 by an international collaboration and
includes magnets and other beam elements constructed
in Russia, Japan, and Germany, as well as the
U.S. Its purpose is to investigate the factors
that limit the size and stability of the beam
at the collision point for a linear collider.
Since the rate of collisions depends on beam
density, the ability to focus the beam to a
tiny size at the collision is one of the critical
parameters that will determine the research
capability of such a facility. FFTB is supported
by DOE’s Office of Science, High Energy
and Nuclear Physics program.
· Accelerator
Test Facility (ATF):
ATF at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long
Island in Upton, New York, is a users facility
dedicated for long-term R&D in Physics of
Beams. The ATF core capabilities include a high-brightness
photoinjector electron gun, a 70 MeV linac,
high power lasers synchronized to the electron
beam to a picosecond level, four beam lines
(most with energy spectrometers) and a sophisticated
computer control system. ATF users, from universities,
national labs and industry, are carrying out
R&D on Advanced Accelerator Physics and
are studying the interactions of high power
electromagnetic radiation and high brightness
electron beams, including laser acceleration
of electrons and Free-Electron Lasers. Other
topics include the development of electron beams
with extremely high brightness, photo-injectors,
electron beam and radiation diagnostics and
computer controls. ATF is supported by DOE’s
Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program and Basic Energy Sciences program.
Nuclear
Physics
· Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC):
RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a
world-class scientific research facility that
began operation in 2000, following 10 years
of development and construction. Hundreds of
physicists from around the world use RHIC to
study what the universe may have looked like
in the first few moments after its creation.
RHIC drives two intersecting beams of gold ions
head-on, in a subatomic collision. What physicists
learn from these collisions may help us understand
more about why the physical world works the
way it does, from the smallest subatomic particles,
to the largest stars. RHIC is supported by DOE’s
Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program.
· Continuous
Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF):
CEBAF at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility in Newport News, Virginia, supports
Jefferson Lab's main mission of nuclear physics
research. Based on superconducting radio-frequency
(SRF) accelerating technology, CEBAF is the
world's most advanced particle accelerator for
investigating the quark structure of the atom's
nucleus. CEBAF is supported by DOE’s Office
of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program.
· Bates
Linear Accelerator Center:
Bates Linear Accelerator Center is a university-based
facility for nuclear physics, operated by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for DOE’s
Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program, as a National User Facility. Over 200
physicists from 52 institutions are currently
involved in active experiments at Bates. Bates
carries out frontier research in nuclear physics
with electron beams up to approximately 1 GeV
in energy. Active areas of study presently at
Bates include determination of the strange quark
contribution to the intrinsic magnetism of the
proton (SAMPLE) and a precise determination
of the small components of the transition of
the nucleon to its first excited state (OOPS).
For the future, a major new detector is under
construction to measure spin-dependent electron
scattering from polarized nuclei (BLAST). In
addition to carrying out research in nuclear
physics, Bates has educated and trained a large
number of students and post-docs in nuclear
physics over the last twenty years.
· Holifield
Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF):
HRIBF at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, began operation in early 1997
providing accelerated radioactive ion beams
(RIBs) for research in nuclear structure physics
and nuclear astrophysics. The HRIBF incorporates
two previously existing ORNL accelerators with
a newly constructed RIB injector system (high
voltage production target and ion source platform
together with two stages of mass separation)
into a coupled system for the production and
acceleration of radioactive ions. The facility
is based on the isotope separator on-line (ISOL)
method using the k=100 Oak Ridge Isochronous
Cyclotron (ORIC) to provide intense light-ion
(p, d, ^3,4He) beams for production of radioactive
species and the 25 MV ORNL Tandem to accelerate
the RIBs to energies required for nuclear physics
research. HRIBF is supported by DOE’s
Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program.
· Argonne
Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS):
ATLAS is a national user facility at Argonne
National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. ATLAS
is the world's first heavy-ion accelerator to
use superconducting elements for beam focusing
and acceleration. Its superconducting resonators
make possible a continuous beam. Traditional
materials would produce too much heat, requiring
a pulsed beam. Physicists from institutions
across the United States and more than a dozen
foreign countries participate in experiments
at the facility. Physicists from all over the
world use ATLAS to probe the structure of the
atomic nucleus by studying the gamma rays and
particles emitted when ion beams smash into
targets. The 500-foot-long accelerator is capable
of accelerating ions (atoms stripped of one
or more electrons) of any element up to uranium
to energies as high as 17 million electron volts
(MeV) per nucleon - about 15 percent of the
speed of light. ATLAS staff currently are investigating
the possibility of accelerating unstable (radioactive)
atoms with a new addition to ATLAS called the
Rare Isotope Accelerator. Beams of unstable
ions would be extremely valuable in a wide range
of studies, including nuclear astrophysics--the
field that attempts to understand the origin
and abundance of the elements that make up all
matter in the universe. ATLAS is supported by
DOE’s Office of Science, High Energy and
Nuclear Physics program.
· Triangle
Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL):
TUNL is funded by DOE’s Office of Science,
High Energy and Nuclear Physics program, with
research faculty from three major universities
within the Research Triangle area: Duke University,
North Carolina State University, and the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Located on the
campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina,
behind the Physics department, TUNL draws additional
collaborators from many universities in the
southeast, as well as from labs and universities
across the country and all over the world.
· Texas
A&M Cyclotron Institute:
Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute is a DOE university
facility that is jointly supported by DOE’s
Office of Science, High Energy and Nuclear Physics
program, and the State of Texas. It is a major
technical resource for the State and the Nation.
Internationally recognized for its research
contributions, the institute provides the primary
infrastructure support for the University’s
graduate programs in nuclear chemistry and nuclear
physics. The Institute’s programs focus
on conducting basic research, educating students
in accelerator-based science and technology,
and providing technical capabilities in a wide
variety of applications in space science, materials
science, analytical procedures, and nuclear
medicine.
· University
of Washington Tandem Van de Graaff:
The University of Washington tandem Van de Graaff
accelerator provides precisely characterized
proton beams for extended running periods for
research in fundamental nuclear interactions
and nuclear astrophysics. The accelerator is
part of the Center for Experimental Nuclear
Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA) at the University
of Washington in Seattle. CENPA supports a broad
program of experimental physics research, providing
a unique setting for the training and education
of graduate students in the U.S., where they
have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects
of low energy nuclear research.
· The
Yale University Tandem Van de Graaff:
The Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL)
at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut,
houses a powerful stand-alone tandem Van de
Graaff accelerator, capable of terminal voltages
in excess of 20 MV. There are active in-house
research programs in nuclear structure, nuclear
astrophysics, and relativistic heavy ion physics.
The nuclear structure group studies the behavior
of the atomic nucleus under the induced stress
of high angular momentum, high excitation energies,
or extreme ratios of proton to neutron number.
The nuclear astrophysics program centers on
the study of the nuclear reactions involved
in explosive nucleosynthesis. The facility provides
a variety of stable beams for an extensive suite
of instruments that, along with the opportunity
for extended running times, making possible
detailed studies on symmetry, collective structures,
and evolution of properties in nuclei and nuclear
astrophysics.
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