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Brookhaven National Laboratory's Tandem Van de Graaff
Accelerator Facility
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Where Can We Go From Here?
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10 steps to your Tandem experiment. |
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SEU availability calendar for our facility. Here you can see when the facility is available for running SEU. |
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List of ions, energies and LETs that are available at our facility. |
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Fill-in form that allows registered users to reserve time at our facility via the Web. |
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Users are required to register before being allowed on site |
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List of contact people at our facility and how to reach us by phone, fax or e-mail. |
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Fill-in form to request more information, send us your comments or ask a question. |
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Frequently Asked Questions and answers about our Single Event Upset Program. |
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A service to our users providing listings of items we have found. |
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Fill-in form for sending us your comments and suggestions. |
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A collection of WWW links that may be of interest to people who find our site interesting. |
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Web-based program allows you to select your target, ion and energy and get back LET and range. |
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Download your personal version of the LET Calculator Program (~250K). Requires WinZip to unzip. |
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A demo program you can run on a Windows PC to simulate the operation of the SEU Facility. |
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See some pictures of our facility. |
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Radiation Effects Testing and Calibration Our facility is frequently upgraded and improved in response to suggestions from our user community. If you have any suggestions about how we can improve our services, please let us know how we can assist you to make your experience at the TVDG more pleasant and rewarding. Listed below are several examples of the type of work that is done at the SEU Test Facility.
Have you got questions? We have answers. See our SEU FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page for information about the SEU hardware and software. Download the SEU Test Facility Manual. The manual is in Windows Help File Format and is compressed for faster downloading. The file is about 800K in size. Click Here to download. (Requires WinZip to unzip) Download the SEU Demo Program. This program allows you to familiarize yourself with the operation of the SEU Test Facility. The file is about 940K in size. Click Here to download. (Requires WinZip to unzip) Help us help you. Use our Feedback form to suggest improvements to our facilities, services or web site or to ask questions or get more information about our facility. Visit our Space and Radiation Effects Links page to find out what is going on in the world of space radiation effects testing. Roy Middleton's 'Negative Ion Cookbook' is available on the web. It explains how to make negative ions of almost any element. To take a look at it go to Cookbook. |
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Ion Irradiation/Implantation |
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Heavy Ion Research The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at Brookhaven National Laboratory studies the effects of relativistic heavy ions on cells and animals. This radiobiology research program is related to the investigation of space radiation on humans and is particularly important for the planning of future long-term deep space flights. See the NSRL website for more information. |
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About Us A major improvement was the addition of a Pelletron charging systems to both accelerators. This link is a nice .gif animation of the operation of the charging system. Both accelerators (MP-6 and MP-7) have been upgraded to run at a maximum terminal voltage of 15 MV and are also capable of high intensity pulsed beam operation. Both accelerators are currently in service providing beam for SEU users as well as delivering gold and deuterons to RHIC. The facility can now support the Booster/AGS/RHIC/NSRL program and the outside user program simultaneously. This will allow us to run SEU and other applied programs year round. A layout diagram of the upgraded facility is available in .doc (MSWord) format. |
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How To Get More Information If you are a registered user, you can request beam time by using our Time Reservation form. If your browser is forms-challenged or you prefer the convenience of e-mail, please request this information by sending an e-mail to ccarlson@bnl.gov. You can also look at the Introduction to the TVDG for additional information about our facility. A short biography of Robert J. Van de Graaff is now available. This is a chronology of his life where you can learn something about the man who invented the electrostatic particle accelerator. A very nice general reference site about Van de Graaff Generators is available. Some of this site is in French and some in English. If you are contemplating a trip to BNL, you may want to look at the following pages:
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BNL Tandem Personnel
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Other Web Resources
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