Particle Accelerators
and
Nuclear Physics Research
Excellent web site, at the home of the original E. O. Lawrence
cyclotron in the 1930s and many of the important improvements in
accelerators since then. The site includes a very nice pictorial history
of the cyclotron as well as descriptions and links for various research
areas in which cyclotron physics is presently involved.
TRIUMF: Canada's National
Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics
- Interesting site for an accelerator that has been around for about 30
years and still does a large variety of interesting physics. The TRIUMF SAFETY GROUP
Radiation Protection Training Course has a lot of information about
basic physics as well as radiation safety. Also contains an
excellent page of links to other nuclear physics and particle
accelerator sites.
Cyclotron Institute,
Texas A&M University
- Primarily nuclear and particle physics carried out using a
modern superconducting cyclotron.
Eindhoven University of
Technology
- An excellent group illustrating modern developments in applied cyclotron technology. Even better if you read
Dutch.
CERN,
Geneva, Proton Synchrotron Division
- This is a rather technical site describing work being done,
primarily in the area of very high energy particle physics and quarks,
using the CERN proton synchrotron.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Bates Linear Accelerator Center
- This is an older machine producing beams up to 1-GeV electrons, primarily for study of the structure of nucleons. The
site
contains a nice virtual tour of the accelerator and experimental facilites.
Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center
- The accelerator is a two-mile long electron linear accelerator
producing up to 10-GeV electron beams. Research areas include synchrotron
radiation, nuclear physics, and high-energy nuclear astrophysics. The
BaBar research project, apparently unrelated to an orphaned elephant with
large ears (the "Dumbo" research project), includes researchers from the
University of Maryland.
Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility
- This race-track shaped accelerator produces up to about 6-GeV
electron beam (with increases under construction) for research in the areas of accelerator physics, nuclear
physics, free electron lasers, and medical imaging.
University of Notre Dame Nuclear
Structure Laboratory
- Research work largely in the areas of nuclear spectroscopy
and nuclear astrophysics.
The
Florida State University Tandem Van de Graaff / Superconducting Linear
Accelerator Laboratory
FSU
Nuclear Science for Florida's Future
- Summary of work being done at Florida State University, primarily in
the area of gamma-ray spectroscopy and related applications.
Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory
- Click on the "Physics" link for bibliographies of work done in the
areas of accelerators, plasma physics, and radiation physics.
The wallpaper is a photograph of the dee of a cyclotron;
the blue glow is a gas discharge
caused by high air pressure in the vacuum chamber.