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AOT  Accelerator and Beam Science, ABS

CONTACTS

  • Group Leader
    Rod Keller
  • Office Administrators
    Angelina Gurule-Sanchez
    Vickie Radovich

  • Phone: (505) 667-2846
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Accelerator and Beam Science

The Accelerator and Beam Science (AOT-ABS) Group at Los Alamos addresses physics aspects of the driver accelerator for the LANSCE spallation neutron source and related topics. These activities are wide ranging and include

  • generating negative and positive ions in plasma ion sources,
  • creating ion beams from these particles,
  • accelerating the ion beams in linear accelerator structures up to an energy of 800 MeV,
  • compressing the negative hydrogen beam to packets of sub-microsecond duration and accumulating beam current in the Proton Storage Ring, and
  • distributing the ion beams to various targets, at which either target elements are directly converted into radioactive isotopes or neutrons are created by spallation processes.
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