SNS Partnerships:

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Front-end equipment during installation.

The Ion Source

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) was responsible for designing and building the SNS front-end system, which includes an ion source, beam formation and control hardware, and low-energy beam transport and acceleration systems. The ion source produces negative hydrogen (H-) ions—hydrogen with an additional electron attached—that are formed into a pulsed beam and then accelerated to an energy of 2.5 million electron volts (MeV). This beam is then delivered to the linear accelerator.

To learn more . . .

• Argonne National Laboratory
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

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