SNS Partnerships:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Front-end equipment during installation.
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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.
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