supply. The scalar electrical conductivity of the plasma was calculated to be approxi mately 800 mho/m (based on 2 percent cesium seeding); the coefficient ...

While inhalation dose coefficients are provided for about 800 radionuclides in International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Publication 68, many radionuclides of practical dosimetric interest for facilities such as high-energy proton accelerators are not specifically addressed, nor are organ-specific dose ...

... were determined from energy balances on the ... TEMPERATURE, ACCELERATION, ENERGY, SURFACE ... COEFFICIENTS, BALANCE, ...

... joint planning, national and international ... ACCELERATORS, *PROTON ACCELERATORS, PARTICLE ACCELERATOR TECHNIQUES ...

While inhalation dose coefficients are provided for about 800 radionuclides in International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Publication 68, many radionuclides of practical dosimetric interest for facilities such as high-energy proton accelerators are not specifically addressed, nor are organ-specific dose ...

The Ground Test Accelerator (GTA) under construction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is part of the Neutral Particle Beam Program supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative Office. The GTA is a full-sized test facility to evaluate the feasibility of using a negative ion accelerator to produce a neutral particle beam (NPB). The ...

Linear differential equations with quasi- periodical coefficients solved using method of accelerated

Acceleration coeffficients to be taken into account in seismic areas for calculation of structures are defined in national seismic regulations. Joined to the described qualitative requirements, these coefficients represent a balance between precaution cos...

... of accelerated flow through a uniform diameter smooth tube is ... Verma, RP, "The Motion of Discrete Particles Along the ... Hydrodynamics Laboratory ...

... Title : Experimental Evaluation of Track Accelerator ... a full scale accelerator which would ... Subject Categories : TEST FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT AND ...

... conducted on accelerator facilities, involving zero ... of similar exposures on accelerators. ... IMPACT ACCELERATION, EXPERIMENTAL DATA, HIGH ...

... Study of the Requirements for an Acceleration Facility for Bio-Engineering Research and the Feasibility of Establishing Such in the Atlanta Area. ...

... BEAMS, BREMSSTRAHLUNG, GAMMA RAY SPECTROSCOPY, PARTICLE ACCELERATOR COMPONENTS, LINEAR ACCELERATORS. ...

... Descriptors : *LINEAR ACCELERATORS, *ELECTRON ACCELERATORS, AIR FORCE RESEARCH, TEST FACILITIES, ELECTRON BEAMS ...

... appropriate for embankment dams where ... Descriptors : *EARTHQUAKES, *EMBANKMENTS, *EARTH DAMS, STABILITY, ACCELERATION ...

Jan 7, 2004... the acceleration mechanism (including possible mass- and ... traversed volumes by assigning different diffusion coefficients to them, ...

We report the measurement of the diffusion coefficients of francium and rubidium ions implanted in a yttrium foil. We developed a methodology, based on laser spectroscopy, which can be applied to radioactive and stable species, and allows us to directly take record of the diffusion time. Francium isotopes are produced via fusion-evaporation nuclear reaction of a O18 beam on ...

A facility for coating RF power components with thin films of Ti and/or TiN has been in operation for some time at Fermilab supporting the Accelerator Division RF development work and the TESLA program. It has been experimentally verified that such coatings improve the performance of these components as far as withstanding higher electric fields. This is ...

... HYDRODYNAMIC coE F'If-N TSOR UNDERWATER YEiJCLE$ *~.~ GEOMETRIC ... Coefficients for Underwater Vehicles( from Geometric Parameters ...

Variation of acceleration and kurtosis coefficient with test ..... special interest is the normalized fourth moment, or kurtosis coefficient: ...

... to investigate ram accelerator phenomena using expansion tube and shock tube facilities. ... to establish modern experimental capabilities for ...

... Experience with these accelerator systems has ... be fabricated readily by university shop facilities. ... TERMINAL BALLISTICS, EXPERIMENTAL DATA. ...

... aspects of an experimental program which is ... twenty-pair electrode accelerator are described. ... Categories : TEST FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT AND ...

Brief history of Japanese accelerator facilities and several topics in recent years are described from low to high energy regions.

The Corrosion Technology Laboratory at Kennedy Space Center has the facilities, equipment, and experience to conduct indoor accelerated laboratory testing. ...

The Continuous Electron Accelerator Facility, CEBAF, located at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, is devoted to the investigation of the electromagnetic structure of mesons, nucleons, and nuclei using high energy, high duty-cycle electro...

Early operation of the 50 MeV high brightness electron linac of the Accelerator Test Facility is described along with experimental data. This facility is designed to study new linear acceleration techniques and new radiation sources based on linacs in com...

The Facility for Accelerated Service Testing (FAST), located at the Transportation Test Center near Pueblo, Colorado, is a joint government/industry program for accelerated life cycle testing of railroad track and mechanical components. The facility consi...

The existing superconducting linac ATLAS is in many respects an ideal secondary beam accelerator for an ISOL (Isotope separator on-line) type radioactive beam facility. Such a facility would require the addition of two major accelerator elements: a low ch...

The Accelerator Performance Demonstration Facility is the front-end prototype of a CW accelerator useful for accelerator-driven technologies. Its purpose is for evaluating the reliability, availability, and maintainability of a high-current and high-power...

A brief summary of the talks on accelerator physics presented at this conference, Intersections Between Particle and Nuclear Physics , is given. New accelerator facilities and technologies, beam cooling, and the experiments were part of these discussions.

... radiation facilities, (3) free electron lasers, (4) accelerator applications, (5) radiation monitoring and safety, (6) high energy hadron accelerators and ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Physics Division The Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator Pulsed Neutron Source The ORELA is a powerful electron accelerator-based neutron source...

I describe the future accelerator facilities that are currently foreseen for electroweak scale physics, neutrino physics, and nuclear structure. I will explore the physics justification for these machines, and suggest how the case for future accelerators can be made.

A strapped-down system, the Abort Sensor Assembly to be used in the Apollo program's Lunar Excursion Module, was tested in terms of its suitability for two areas of application: missile space guidance in general, and guidance of a launch vehicle during the boost phase. The following characteristics were to be determined: the system's error coefficients, the operational ...

May 21, 2009 ... The Dust Accelerator Facility at CCLDAS ... 2) precise selection of particle size and velocity for high experimental control, ...

The Low-Acceleration Research Facility (LARF), an unmanned free-flier that is boosted from low-earth

This paper outlines technological considerations in the design of accelerator facilities for medical applications. Emphasis is placed on the specific requirements for MARIA, a radioisotope and radiotherapy facility being planned in Edmonton, Canada. The m...

A number of low-temperature nuclear orientation facilities are now operating fully on-line to accelerators/isotope separators capable of producing wide ranges of nuclei far from stability. The basic theory of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation, relevant to the technique of on-line low-temperature nuclear orientation, is outlined. In particular, quantitative ...

The fluence to organ-dose and effective-dose conversion coefficients for neutrons and protons with energies up to 100 GeV was calculated using the PHITS code coupled to male and female adult reference computational phantoms, which are to be released as a common ICRP/ICRU publication. For the calculation, the radiation and tissue weighting factors, w(R) and w(T), respectively, ...

The fluence to organ-dose and effective-dose conversion coefficients for neutrons and protons with energies up to 100 GeV was calculated using the PHITS code coupled to male and female adult reference computational phantoms, which are to be released as a common ICRP/ICRU publication. For the calculation, the radiation and tissue weighting factors, wR and wT, respectively, as ...

... FILMS, SUBSTRATES, TRANSMITTANCE, SURFACES, COEFFICIENTS, PLANAR STRUCTURES, LIGHT TRANSMISSION, VISIBLE SPECTRA ...

In this paper we will discuss experiments performed using an accelerated ion beam incident on selected targets. Some of these were: 1) Measuring Rutherford scattering and/or non-Rutherford nature of scattering as a function of scattering angle, energy of the ion beam and atomic number 2) Verifying theoretical prediction of the kinematical scattering factor by measuring the ...

(adjusted coefficients, empirical accelerations etc.) " Detailed evaluation and filtering of the tracking data. " Evaluation of data products and comparison ...

... The weighting coefficients wstruc and wact determined the ... accelerating RMA masses which produce the control ... forces for vibration attenuation. ...

The effects on the heat transfer coefficient for both parallel and accelerating flow will be studied. The smooth plate model verification baseline data as ...

... the coupling coefficient alpha is of ... between the hollow beam and the ... Descriptors : *ELECTRON BEAMS, ACCELERATION, TRANSMISSION LINES ...

... Accession Number : AD0849745. Title : A Facility for Transient Radiation Effects Experiments at the NPS Linear Accelerator. ...

The drag coefficient of small water droplets was determined throughout a Reynolds number range of approximately 10 to 150 for droplets undergoing acceleration in a stagnant air medium. The drag-coefficient values for the droplets range from approximately ...

of the feedback system to model uncertainty, in particular to the uncertainty on the coefficient of restitution. I to an uncertain coefficient of restitution. Negative values of the acceleration are also favorable with respect to the table is reversed at impact, up to a coefficient of restitution 0 e 1 that models

A dependence is obtained for calculating the heat transfer coefficient in developed boiling of alkali metals in a large volume. It takes into account the influence of pressure, the acceleration of gravity and the material of the heating agent on the magnitude of the heat transfer coefficient.

Because accelerators, like reactors, can be used to produce special nuclear material, their key components must be controlled. This work identifies the key components of linear accelerators (LINACs) that are critical in the export control regime. The design of LINACs is well documented and easily available to the general public. Schools on ...

Early operation of the 50 MeV high brightness electron linac of the Accelerator Test Facility is described along with experimental data. This facility is designed to study new linear acceleration techniques and new radiation sources based on linacs in combination with free electron lasers. The ...

Early operation of the 50 MeV high brightness electron linac of the Accelerator Test Facility is described along with experimental data. This facility is designed to study new linear acceleration techniques and new radiation sources based on linacs in combination with free electron lasers. The ...

In this applet a pendulum is in a vertical position when put in a stopped car. When the car is accelerated, it will swing with a new equilibrium position. The user can change the acceleration and the drag coefficient (assume drag force proportional to velocity put in the opposite direction).

Within the frame of an ongoing project to develop a folded Tandem-Electrostatic-Quadrupole (TESQ) accelerator facility for Accelerator-Based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (AB-BNCT), we discuss here the electrostatic design of the machine, including the accelerator tubes with electrostatic quadrupoles and the ...

... from federally funded research, testing and training ... Title : THE FLYWHEEL AS A ... TEST FACILITIES, *FLYWHEELS, STRESSES, CENTRIFUGAL ...

... for the electron scattering facility has ... GUNS, PARTICLE ACCELERATOR COMPONENTS ... YTTERBIUM, MAINTENANCE, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN. ...

... the Stanford Superconducting Linear Accelerator. ... descriptions of experimental facilities, results to ... MAGNETIC FIELDS, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ...

The Radiation Safety System (RSS) of an accelerator facility is used to protect people from prompt radiation hazards associated with accelerator operation. The RSS is a fully interlocked, engineered system with a combination of passive and active elements...

The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility has begun its experimental program. It is designed to address advanced acceleration research requiring very short, intense electron bunches. It incorporates two photocathode based electron sources. One produces u...

A Free Electron Laser (FEL) called the IR Demo is operational as a user facility at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, USA. It utilizes a 48 MeV superconducting accelerator that not only accelerates the beam but also...

The operation of the proposed Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Newport News, Virginia, is expected to result in the activation and subsequent contamination of water resources in the vicinity of the accelerator. Since the proposed s...

The Brookhaven National Laboratory Accelerator Test Facility comprises a 50 MeV traveling wave electron linear accelerator utilizing a high gradient, photo-excited, raidofrequency electron gun as an injector and an experimental area for study of new accel...

Since the superconducting heavy ion linac ATLAS is an ideal post-accelerator for radioactive beams, plans are being developed for expansion of the facility with the addition of a driver accelerator, a production target/ion source combination, and a low q/...

In this paper an analysis of the depolarization expected during acceleration from 0.8 to 45.0 GeV kinetic energy in the Advanced Hadron Facility (AHF) accelerators is performed.

The three major components of the BNL Heavy-Ion beam facility are described. The tandem accelerator is the ion source, the AGS serves as booster, and to be bulity RHIC completes the facility. (AIP)

Various problems for designing the shield of the synchrotron radiation facility are summalized and discussed. The characteristics of the radiation fields and of the administration on radiation protection around the facility are also presented. (author). (...

The conference included papers on facility plans, beam dynamics, accelerator hardware, and experimental facilities. Individual abstracts were prepared for 43 papers in the conference proceedings. (LEW)

Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility An Office of Science User Facility What is HRIBF Science Initiatives Accelerators Beams Equipment & Detectors Accepted Experiments Schedule...

A two-day workshop on the accelerator for particle therapy was held on August 22-23, 1990, with the aim of mutual understanding of medical accelerators among investigators. The state-of-the-art facilities in Japan and medical proton accelerators in Japan ...

The recent performance and future prospects of accelerators in the United States are reviewed. The next decade promises significant improvements and major new facilities. There is uncertainty beyond that because of the SSC cancellation and the new, enhanced importance of international accelerator projects.

Reports of operations are presented for twenty-seven facilities, along with reports on accelerators in progress, ion sources, insulating gases, charging systems, stripping foils, accelerating tubes, and upgraded accelerator systems. (GHT)

This paper gives an introduction to particle accelerators and reviews the basic principles of circular accelerators. An overview of technological applications in both basic and applied research is provided including a list of accelerator facilities at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Dubna.

The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) is a new facility for advanced accelerator research, with a particular emphasis on studies of high gradient ((approximately)100 MeV/m) wakefield acceleration. A novel high current short pulse L-Band photocathode and...

The Garching MP tandem-post accelerator-achromator accelerator facility was extended in such way that by it a very backgroundless accelerator mass spectroscopy with fully stripped medium heavy ions was possible. As first applications microscopical amounts...

An experimental test facility is used to measure the rotordynamic coefficients of teeth-on-rotor and

Wakefield acceleration in dielectric loaded structures is discussed in this paper. We present a description of the dielectric wakefield accelerator concept, comparing some features of the collinear and the two beam accelerator configurations. The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA) is ...

Wakefield acceleration in dielectric loaded structures is discussed in this paper. We present a description of the dielectric wakefield accelerator concept, comparing some features of the collinear and the two beam accelerator configurations. The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA) is ...

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is a user facility for scientists worldwide. Its primary mission is to conduct basic research of the atom�s nucleus at the quark level.

An overview is given on the international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI, its science motivation and goals, the facility lay-out and characteristics, the accelerator design challenges, the schedule for construction, and the international interest/participation in the project.

The design of the CERN Heavy-Ion Facility is described. This facility will be based on a new ion linear accelerator (Linac 3), together with improvements to the other accelerators of the CERN complex to allow them to cope with heavy ions, i.e. to the Prot...

A new test facility designed to measure the coefficient of moisture expansion of advanced composites is described, and some experimental results are presented. The facility includes a thermostat enclosed in a vacuum chamber, in which the samples and the measuring systems are located, and a temperature regulating system with a ...

Experiments are in progress at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) which are designed to select the most appropriate target materials for generating particular radioactive ion beams for the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF). The 25-MV tandem accelerator is used to implant stable complements of interesting radioactive elements into ...

Values for the dose equivalent are required for radiation protection purposes, but determination of such values can be quite difficult for high energy radiations. The accurate determination of personal dose equivalents in accelerator radiation fields requires the propel use of appropriate radiological quantities and units, knowledge of the dose equivalent response of the ...

A method is described in which the uncharged atomic particles leaving the impulse Alpha facility are analyzed for intensity, energy dependence, time of occurrence, and mass. The uncharged particles leaving the plasma of Alpha enter a collimating slit system which defines the geometry; electrostatic plates permit only neutral particles to enter a gas cell with pressure ...

A synchrotron radiation (SR) facility typically consists of an injector, a storage ring, and SR beamlines. The latter two features are unique to SR facilities, when compared to other types of accelerator facilities. The SR facilities have the characterist...

The Accelerator Performance Demonstration Facility is the front-end prototype of a CW accelerator useful for accelerator-driven technologies. Its purpose to evaluate the reliability, availability, and maintainability of a high-current and high-power machine. This paper describes the design and technology ...

The Accelerator Performance Demonstration Facility is the front-end prototype of a CW accelerator useful for accelerator-driven technologies. Its purpose is for evaluating the reliability, availability, and maintainability of a high-current and high-power machine. In this paper, design and technology development of ...

The Radiological Research Accelerator Facility (RARAF) is based on a 4-MV Van de Graaff accelerator, which is used to generate a variety of well-characterized radiation beams for research in radiobiology and radiological physics. The experiments run at RARAF are described, and center on neutron dosimetry, mutagenesis, and ...

estimate of the Mars Pathfinder parachute drag coefficient is obtained by taking into account the parachute the reconstruction increases the reconstructed value of the parachute drag coefficient by approximately 7 percent acceleration APar = parachute drag coefficient AX = acceleration in the ...

The existing superconducting linac ATLAS is in many respects an ideal secondary beam accelerator for an ISOL (Isotope separator on-line) type radioactive beam facility. Such a facility would require the addition of two major accelerator elements: a low charge state injector for the existing heavy ion linac, and a ...

chamber facility AIDA of the Research Centre Karlsruhe, the extinction coefficients of spark generated dependencies of the scattering and extinction coefficients were calculated as well. The module was developed and extinction coefficients, of about 20%. In Figure 3 the temporal evolution in particle size and ...

Since the superconducting heavy ion linac ATLAS is an ideal post-accelerator for radioactive beams, plans are being developed for expansion of the facility with the addition of a driver accelerator, a production target/ion source combination, and a low q/m pre-accelerator for radioactive ions. A working group ...

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... Laser (IFEL) and an Inverse Cerenkov Accelerator (ICA), use ... linac at the Advanced Test Facility (ATF) at ... changes in the current experimental setups ...

The high-current levels of contemporary and proposed accelerator facilities induce radiation levels into components, requiring consideration be given to maintenance techniques that reduce personnel exposure. Typical components involved include beamstops, ...

The report gives recommendations pertaining to the basic administration and minimum procedures that should be followed at particle accelerator facilities to insure safe operation. The recommendations are designed to supplement existing regulations and sta...

for a muon beamline. The facility allows scientists to test the equipment with a proton beam. Read more The Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) was created in 2010 to unify the...

The report describes a general-purpose instrumentation system developed for use in conjunction with the Coriolis Acceleration Platform, a combined linear and angular motion device recently installed at the vestibular research facilities of this activity. ...

Dec 13, 1994 ... The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) is an accelerator laboratory for basic nuclear physics research under construction ...

This report describes the operation statistics of the accelerator facility of the year 2001. The data were collected with the help of the program PROST [1]. Accelerator development and experiments are the topic of separate contributions [2], [3] and [4] to this annual report.

The core capabilities of the ATF include a high brightness photoinjector electron gun, a 70 million electron-volt (MeV) linear accelerator, high power lasers synchronized...

JPL. Ames. Facilities. Rocky 8. Accelerated Long Range Traverse (ALERT). Task Schedule. Objective: Demonstrate feasibility of using a commercial ...

... Keywords: Flash X-ray accelerator; Radiation shielding ... PARTICLE ACCELERATORS, RADIATION, JOBS, SAFETY, SHIELDING, RADIOLOGY. ...

The High Intensity Proton Accelerator Project, named as J-PARC, was started on 1 April 2001 at Tokai-site of JAERI. The accelerator complex of J-PARC consists of three accelerators: 400 MeV Linac, 3 GeV rapid cycle synchrotron and 50 GeV synchrotron; and four major experimental facilities: Material and Life Science ...

... for evaluating airflow measurement accuracy provided by venturis installed in ETF test facilities. Descriptors : *AIR FLOW, *GAS TURBINES ...

Research and development work is currently in progress in France on the feasibility of transmutation of very long-lived radionuclides such as americium, blended with an inert medium such as magnesium oxide and pelletized for irradiation in a fast neutron reactor. The process is primarily designed to produce ceramics for nuclear reactors, but could also be used to produce targets for ...

The growth and collapse of laser-induced vapor cavities inside axisymmetric free-falling liquid water jets have been studied. Bubbles of different size are generated at various distances from the jet axis and the effects on the jet interface are recorded by means of ultrafast cinematography. The configuration is characterized by two dimensionless parameters: the bubble to jet diameter ratio ? and ...

An overview of the accelerated, indoor light-soaking test station is presented in this paper, along with data obtained for six modules that underwent exposure. The station comprises a climate-controlled chamber equipped with a solar simulator that allows 1-sun light intensity exposure. Concurrently, we monitor the electrical characteristics of multiple PV modules and exercise ...

The impact of the introduction of ICRP Publication 103 on neutron dosimetry was analysed by calculating effective doses in various operational neutron fields, using dose conversion coefficients derived from the recommendations given in ICRP 103 and ICRP 60. It was found from the analysis that effective doses based on ICRP 103 are generally smaller than those based on ICRP 60, ...

The DOE-funded accelerator BNCT program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has resulted in the only operating accelerator-based epithermal neutron beam facility capable of generating significant dose rates in the world. With five separate beamlines and two different epithermal neutron beam assemblies installed, we are ...

A technique for approximating the drag coefficients from radar beacon tracks of previously fired unguided rockets is presented. Corrections for the effect of wind conditions at launch and for the Coriolis and centripetal accelerations due to the rotation ...

The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is an accelerator-based facility. The accelerator of CSNS consists of a low energy linac, a Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS) and two beam transport lines. The overall physics design of CSNS accelerator is described, including the design principle, the choice of the main ...

due to gyro bias drift (for all alignment modes) and to acceleration ... Definitions for the gyro drift coefficients, NBD, ADIA, ADSRA, and ADOA are ...

... of two parallel torpedo-like hulls. ... of Acceleration Hydrodynamic Coefficients for ... For Predicting Submersible Hydrodynamics Characteristics, NCSC ...

... Note thttin c1 , as defined by Eq. (10), the magnitude of the first term will be unity or larger unless there are flow reversals giving negative u values. ...

characteristics ) 5.2 Proposals for Quality Assurance Program 5.3 Coefficients of Acceleration 6. Conclusion THE JAPAN ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION International PV...

... a Mach number of about 0.79 and a normal-force coefficient of about 0.45 ( normal acceleration factor, the ratio of the net aerodynamic force along the airplane ...

... X angle-of-attack pitch acceleration T1 Tip ... higher loads because of an high friction coefficient. ... all the am points together sufficient life for projected ...

This study has been focused on an Accelerator-Driven Energy Amplifier, based on the concept proposed by the CERN-group. To analyze the performance of this system the extensive optimization of the core lattice was done, the temperature coefficients of reactivity were investigated, reactivity budget and power distribution were estimated.

problems include ship slamming, torpedo water entry, and space capsule sea landing. .... modeled as a vacuum and water was modeled as a null hydrodynamic material. .... types of accelerations can be combined for estimating the acceleration at ..... the slamming coefficient, a non-dimensional parameter that is defined as ...

We compare the two vacua associated with accelerating observers to Rindler vacuum and to the Milne vacua, by means of Bogolubov coefficients. This confirm previous results of the literature that say that two of these vacua are equivalent to Cartesian vacu...

The skewness of the envelope function of 20 - 100 femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser pulses has been controlled by appropriate choice of the higher order special phase coefficients, and used for optimization of a plasma wakefield electron accelerator.

The absence of time structure and the excellent beam and beam transport properties of tandem electrostatic accelerators make them an attractive choice for the acceleration of a large class of radioactive ion species produced with the ISOL technique. In th...

Recording setting changes within an accelerator facility provides information that can be used to answer questions about when, why, and how changes were made to some accelerator system. This can be very useful during normal operations, but can also aid wi...

While the SSC has been getting all the attention, a smaller but no less important accelerator is already under construction using state of the art superconducting technology. This article describes the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) located at Newport News, VA.

The Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) project will employ a high power proton accelerator to generate neutrons in a spallation target for the production of tritium. This paper will describe major attributes of the safety of this facility. 1 fig.

Progress is reported on the Staged Electron Laser Acceleration (STELLA) experiment, which has been assembled on the BNL Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). The primary goal of STELLA is to demonstrate staging of the laser acceleration process by using the BN...

A brief description is presented of the scope and status of the heavy ion accelerator facility, and status of the project is discussed. Initial operation of the 25 MV tandem accelerator from National Electrostatics Corporation is covered. (GHT)

Benchmark problems were prepared for evaluating the calculation codes and the nuclear data for accelerator shielding design by the Accelerator Shielding Working Group of the Research Committee on Reactor Physics in JAERI. Four benchmark problems are trans...

The main ion beams acceleration facilities and research fields of the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) are briefly introduced. Some of the experimental instruments, typical works and the obtained results on the materials research with swift heavy ions at the IMP accelerators are presented.

The contribution focuses on the 400 kV accelerator which will be installed in the underground laboratory of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy) in the year 2000. Special emphasis will bes put on the properties of the accelerator and the gamma detector systems giving high detection efficiency and low background. .

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has been heavily involved since 1956 in the construction and adaptation of particle accelerators for the acceleration of heavy ions. At the present time it has the most extensive group of accelerators with heavy-ion capability...

An assessment of the magnitude of the problem presented by the decommissioning of particle accelerator facilities is given. The history of past decommissionings is reviewed with regard to technological, environmental, health, and economic aspects. Development of a generalized plan for accelerator decommissioning is discussed. (GHT)

The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) is a new facility for advanced accelerator research. A major component of the AWA is its drive linac, consisting of a unique high current short pulse L-Band photocathode based gun and special standing wave preaccele...

A proposed accelerator safety standard for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLL) is given. All accelerators will comply with this standard when it is included in the LLL Health and Safety Manual. The radiation alarm and radiation safety system for a radiography facility are also described.

It is proposed that the Paraho Oil Shale Demonstration Project, located at the Anvil Points facility near Rifle, Colorado, be contracted by ERDA to accelerate investigation of process variables as part of the oil shale gasification program of the Laramie ...

A new heavy-ion accelerator facility is under construction at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A brief description of the scope and status of this project is presented with emphasis on the first operational experience with the 25 MV tandem accelerator.