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CN4-427-49
The Cosmotron. This was the first accelerator in the world to
send particles to energies in the billion electron volt, or GeV,
region. The Cosmotron reached its full design energy of 3.3 GeV in
1953. The machine was in use until 1968. |
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Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS). Aerial view of the AGS,
1968. From 1960 to 1968, the AGS was the highest energy proton
accelerator in the world. It is now used as an injector for
Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. |
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CN3-260-65
80-inch bubble chamber. In 1963, the 80-inch was the largest
particle detector of its type in the world. The most famous
discovery made at this detector was the omega-minus particle. |
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High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR). The HFBR was designed to produce
copious amounts of neutrons, particles which are uniquely suited
to investigating the structure of matter. This image was taken
around the time of facility completion in 1964. |
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CN10-121-71
200 million electron volt Linear Accelerator (LINAC). The LINAC
was designed and built in the late 1960’s as a major upgrade to
the Alternating Gradient Synchroton complex. It supplies high
energy protons to the AGS. |
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The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron's Cockroft-Walton generator.
No longer in use, this is the device that was used to provide the
initial acceleration to protons prior to injection into a linear
accelerator and then on to the AGS. |
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CN4-85-70
The low energy end of the proton drift tube, Tank 3, in the 200
million electron volt LINAC. |
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The original AGS linear accelerator as seen from the low-energy
end. This accelerator was used to accelerate protons to an energy
of 50 million electron volts before sending them to the AGS. This
machine was replaced by the 200 MeV LINAC in 1970. |
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No longer in service, this is the Cockroft-Walton accelerator that
was used to inject high-energy protons into the 200 MeV LINAC for
further acceleration before being delivered to the AGS. |
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The Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor. The first peace-time
reactor to be constructed in the United States following World War
II. The reactor's primary mission was to produce neutrons for
scientific experimentation and refine reactor technology. |
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The First
Technetium-99m Generator.
In the 1960s and 1970s Brookhaven researchers introduced and
developed the first instant kit methods for rapid and convenient
on-site labeling of technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals. Today,
technetium-99m is the most widely used imaging isotope in nuclear
medicine. |
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BNL researchers Powell "Jim" Richards and Walter Tucker were an
integral part of the BNL team that led to the development of
technetium-99m and promoted it's use among the medical community. |
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This photograph is reproduced from original film taken by the 7'
bubble chamber. It shows evidence for the existence of a subatomic "charmed
particle." |
