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ACCELERATOR FACILITIES FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES 197 197 Appendix Accelerator Facilities for Nuclear Physics in the United States Tables A.1 and A.2 summarize nuclear physics accelerator facilities currently in operation or under construction in the United States. In addition to the accelerator parameters and performance characteristics, the tables list the primary areas of research that each one addresses.
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198 APPENDIX TABLE A.1 National User Facilities Beam Characteristics Facility Species Energies Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Electrons 1-6 GeV Facility (VA) Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)
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ACCELERATOR FACILITIES FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES 199 Technology Research Areas Superconducting accelerator Structure of hadrons Polarized-electron beams Quark-gluon degrees of freedom in nuclei Three simultaneous target stations Electromagnetic response of nuclei Colliding beams Quark-gluon plasma Polarized-proton beams Hot compressed nucleonic matter Superconducting magnets Spin physics Polarized-electron beams Fundamental symmetries and interactions Electron stretcher/storage ring Structure of hadrons and nuclei Internal targets Spin structure of nucleons and nuclei Superconducting cyclotrons Nuclear structure with radioactive beams Superconducting magnets Liquid-gas phase transition Radioactive beams Nuclear astrophysics Polarized, stored cooled beams Nucleon-nucleon/meson interactions Internal targets Spin structure of nuclei Fundamental symmetries and chirality Superconducting accelerator Nuclear structure at the limits Selected radioactive beams Nuclear astrophysics with radioactive beams Ion trapping and fundamental symmetries Two-accelerator ISOL facility Nuclear structure with radioactive beams Radioactive beams Nuclear astrophysics Decay studies far off stability ECR ion sources Nuclear structure at the limits Rare-isotope beams Heavy-element research Atom trapping and fundamental symmetries of these, the K500 and the K1200, are currently being coupled in a program to upgrade the capabilities of the MSU system. The K500, the world's first superconducting cyclotron, operated from 1982 to 1988 in support of the nuclear physics program at MSU.
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200 APPENDIX TABLE A.2 University Accelerators Beam Characteristics Facility Species Energies Florida State University Tandem Linac Protons, light to 2-10 MeV/u medium heavy ions State University of New York at Protons, light to 2-10 MeV/u Stony Brook Tandem-Linac medium heavy ions University of Notre Dame (IN) Protons, light to 2-21 MeV Accelerator Facility medium heavy ions 0.1-8 MeV/u Texas A&M University Cyclotron Protons, light to 2-70 MeV/u Institute K500 Superconducting Cyclotron heavy ions University of Washington Tandem Linac Protons, light to 2-16 MeV medium heavy ions 2-10 MeV/u Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (NC)
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ACCELERATOR FACILITIES FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES 201 Technology Research Areas Superconducting cavities Nuclear structure and decay Polarized lithium beam Spin effects in nucleus-nucleus collisions Superconducting cavities Nuclear structure Heavy-ion reactions Atom trapping and spectroscopy Radioactive beams Nuclear structure and reactions Intense low-energy stable beams Fundamental symmetries Nuclear astrophysics Intermediate-energy heavy ions Nuclear structure and reaction dynamics Selected radioactive beams Nuclear astrophysics with radioactive beams Fundamental symmetries Superconducting cavities Nuclear reactions with heavy ions Terminal ion source Tests of fundamental symmetries High-resolution light-ion beams Fundamental symmetries Polarized beams Inter-nucleon reactions and light nuclei Nuclear astrophysics Polarized beams Few-body systems Fundamental symmetries Spin degrees of freedom in nuclei High-resolution beams Nuclear structure Heavy-ion reactions Nuclear astrophysics ATLAS at Argonne National Laboratory consists of a superconducting linear accelerator, which is injected by either a 9-MV tandem Van de Graaff or a new positive-ion injector (PII) consisting of two ECR ion sources and a superconducting injector linac of novel design.
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202 APPENDIX FIGURE A.1 Illustration and geographical distribution of nuclear physics laboratories in the United States. Shown are major national user facilities, as well as the smaller, dedicat
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ACCELERATOR FACILITIES FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES 203 ed university laboratories that, together and in a synergistic relationship, cover the broad range of science that is described.
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204 APPENDIX FI G U RE A .2 A er ia l v ie w o f t he R el at iv ist ic H ea vy Io n Co lli de r ( RH IC )
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ACCELERATOR FACILITIES FOR NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN THE UNITED STATES 205 into operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to permit research with precisely controlled beams of radioactive nuclei generated by the ISOL (isotope separator online) technique.
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206 APPENDIX of protons and deuterons at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) in North Carolina and at the University of Wisconsin is of importance to studies of few-body systems.
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