The Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute, a Department of Energy University Facility, is jointly supported by DOE and the State of Texas and is a major technical and educational resource for the State and the Nation.
cyclotron.tamu.edu WORLD-WIDE Aldo Bonasera GRADUATE PHYSICS RESEARCH Theoretical Nuclear Physics FACULTY ••Visiting dist. scientist JAERI-Japan ••Honorary professor Three Gorges University-China Research programs at the Cyclotron Institute are funded ••Full professor - Italy by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Graduate faculty members Foundation and the Robert A. Welch Foundation. with Cyclotron Institute- Greg Christian based research programs are PHYSICS listed. To conduct dissertation Nuclear structure and Internationally recognized for its research, the astrophysics, transfer research at the Cyclotron reactions, neutron Institute provides the primary infrastructure support Institute, students may work detection. for the University’s graduate programs in nuclear with any faculty member but chemistry and nuclear physics. must be formally enrolled in the graduate program of Cody Folden At the Institute we focus on conducting basic CHEMISTRY either the Department of research, educating students in accelerator-based Chemistry, Physics and Physics and Astronomy or the Nuclear Forensics of the science and technology, and providing technical Department of Chemistry. heaviest elements capabilities for a wide variety of applications in space ••DOE Early Career Award science, materials science, analytical procedures and nuclear medicine. This involves over 100 Institute members – scientists, engineers, technicians, support Rainer Fries PHYSICS staff, graduate students and undergraduate students. Theory of nuclear collisions, quark gluon Institute staff constructed, and now operate, a K150 plasma and hadrons cyclotron, a K500 superconducting cyclotron and ••NSF Career Award ••IUPAP Young Scientist Prize associated advanced ECR sources. Together, these provide a powerful arsenal of intermediate-energy Carl A. Gagliardi ion beams for use in both fundamental and applied PHYSICS studies. A large complement of sophisticated state- Fundamental interactions of-the-art detectors and spectrometers provides the and nuclear astrophysics instrumentation necessary for modern research in ••Fellow, American Physical Society ••Distinguished Achievement nuclear structure, weak interactions, exotic nuclei, Award in Teaching, AFS, - Texas nuclear astrophysics, intermediate-energy reaction dynamics, nuclear thermodynamics, the nuclear John C. Hardy equation of state, atomic physics and applied nuclear PHYSICS science. Fundamental interactions and exotic nuclei ••Fellow, Royal Society of Canada In addition to housing the locally based program, ••Fellow, American Physical Society the Institute also serves as a technical support base ••2006 Bonner Prize, Nuclear Physics for collaborative research programs at other major national and international accelerator facilities. Jeremy Holt PHYSICS Institute scientists publish more than 100 papers per Theoretical nuclear physics year in leading scientific journals. and astrophysics INTERESTED IN Dan Melconian Grigory Rogachev WORKING WITH THE PHYSICS PHYSICS CYCLOTRON INSTITUTE? Fundamental interactions Nuclear Structure, nuclear using trapped ion and atoms reactions and nuclear ••Canadian Division of Nuclear Physics astrophysics FOR GRADUATE STUDENT PhD thesis award ••1998 Kurchatov Prize APPLICATION INFORMATION: ••DOE Early Career Award ••Russian Research Center Fellowship for Young Researchers Application information regarding enrollment in the graduate program Che Ming Ko Shalom Shlomo may be obtained by writing PHYSICS PHYSICS the graduate advisor of your Theoretical nuclear physics Theoretical Nuclear Physics department or by contacting: ••Fellow, American Physical Society ••RIKEN Eminent Scientist Award Professor Che Ming Ko, Cyclotron ••Humboldt Research Award •• Fellow, Institute of Physics Institute, Texas A&M University, ••Distinguished Achievement, •• Fellow, American Physical Society Research AFS, - Texas A&M College Station, TX 77843-3366 PH: (979) 845-1411 E-MAIL: [email protected] Ania Kwiatkowski Robert E. Tribble PHYSICS PHYSICS Low-energy, experimental Fundamental interactions FOR COLLABORATION AND/OR nuclear physics with ion and nuclear astrophysics RESEARCH INFORMATION: traps ••Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship As an important national resource ••Fellow, American Physical Society for accelerator-based science and ••Distinguished Achievement, Research AFS, - Texas A&M technology, the Cyclotron Institute welcomes appropriate use of its Saskia Mioduszewski Sherry J. Yennello facilities. In addition to its primary PHYSICS CHEMISTRY role, that of research and education Experimental, high-energy Heavy-ion reactions and in nuclear science, the Texas A&M nuclear physics isospin studies Cyclotron Institute also provides ••Presidential Early Career Award for ••NSF National Young Investigator important technological capabilities Scientists and Engineers ••ACS Garvin-Olin award_ for applications of nuclear ••Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship ••Fellow, APS, ACS and AAAS ••Maria Goeppert Mayer Award techniques in other areas. Institute facilities have been used for Joseph B. Natowitz Dave H. Youngblood cancer therapy, radiation dosimetry, CHEMISTRY PHYSICS studies of plant physiology, Heavy-ion reaction dynamics Giant resonances and precise analytical determinations, and thermodynamics nuclear matter development of mass-spectrometric ••ACS Award in Nuclear Chemistry ••Fellow, American Physical Society techniques, studies of “high T” ••Fellow, American Physical Society ••Distinguished Achievement ••Fellow, American Chemical Society Award in Research, AFS - Texas superconductors, evaluation of A&M nuclear waste transmutation techniques and simulation of Ralf Rapp Akram Zhanov cosmic-radiation-induced effects on PHYSICS PHYSICS microelectronic circuits. Theoretical Nuclear Physics Theoretical nuclear ••Humboldt Bessel Research Award astrophysics and nuclear Potential users of the facility are ••NSF CAREER & Texas APS Hyer reaction theory Awards encouraged to contact: ••Fellow, American Physical Society Professor Sherry Yennello (Director), Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3366 PH: (979) 845-1411 FX: (979) 845-1899 E-MAIL: [email protected]
cyclotron.tamu.edu FACILITY SCHEMATIC
The Cyclotron Institute has expanded steadily since commissioning its original cyclotron in 1967 and is currently upgrading again. The diagram below shows the variety of sophisticated detectors and spectrometers that enhance the Institute’s TAMUTRAP (2016) Purifies and ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE (ECR) H-SOURCE (2010) capacity for nuclear research. confines short-lived ions for ION SOURCES (2002 - 2010) For the production of high intensity precision decay experiments and Two ECR sources inject beam into the K150 proton and deuteron beams from the as a general decay station. and K500 Cyclotrons. A third acts as a K150 Cyclotron. charge breeder for radioactive beams.
K150 CYCLOTRON(1967) K500 SUPERCONDUCTING CYCLOTRON (1987) Following 20 years off line this facility The Cyclotron Institute at Texas A&M is now operational and is an integral University operates one of only five K500 part of the facility upgrade to make the superconducting cyclotrons in the world. Cyclotron Institute a dual-cyclotron facility providing accelerated secondary beams.
RADIATION EFFECT FACILITY (1994, 2000) Available for commercial, governmental and educational use, the testing facility is installed on NIMROD (1999) a dedicated beam line with complete diagnostic High efficiency detection of both equipment and controls. With the modern K500 neutrons and charged particles. superconducting cyclotron and the advanced ECR ion source, a diverse range of particle beams and energies is available for radiation-effects testing.
TAPE TRANSPORT & PRECISION ON-LINE g DECAY FACILITY (1999) Fast tape-transport system isolates pure FORWARD ARRAY USING SILICON TECHNOLOGY samples of short- – QUADRUPOLE TRIPLET (FAUST-QT) (2013) MDM SPECTROMETER (1993, 2000) lived isotopes for Detection of light charged particles and High-resolution, broad-range spectrometer. MARS RECOIL SPECTROMETER (1992) high-precision decay intermediate mass fragments in the FAUST multi- Beam analysis system provides beams for the Spectrometer for production and separation of measurements with detector array, while simultaneously collecting MDM Spectrometer. radioactive ions specialized detectors. the heaviest fragment in the QT.