Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System
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The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Argonne National Laboratory. ATLAS is the first superconducting linear accelerator for heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier and is open to scientists from all over the world.
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Accelerator type | Linear accelerator |
Beam type | heavy ions |
Target type | Fixed target |
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Maximum energy | 17 MeV per nucleon |
Maximum current | 10 particle µA |
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Location | Lemont, IL |
Coordinates | 41.716645°N 87.98440°W / 41.716645; -87.98440 |
Institution | University of Chicago, United States Department of Energy |
Dates of operation | 1978 - present |
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The ATLAS accelerator at Argonne should not be confused with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.