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Bevalac biomedical facility in operation

Image File

97502270

Title

Bevalac biomedical facility in operation

Description

Biophysicist John Lyman checks beam monitoring equipment on the optical bench in one of the new biomedical caves at the Bevalac. The components of the optical bench were designed and constructed at the Lab so that beam characteristics are not significantly changed by passing through the dosimetry apparatus. The Bevalac began operation on August 1, 1974, and for a long time was the most powerful heavy ion accelerator in the world. In the Bevalac, the Bevatron was linked to the SuperHILAC linear accelerator. Nuclei began their journey in the SuperHILAC and then were passed through a transfer line to the Bevatron, where they were accelerated almost to the speed of light. With the later addition of an improved vacuum system and other modifications, the Bevalac became the only machine the world capable of accelerating all of the elements of the periodic table to relativistic energies. The Bevalac finally ceased operations on February 21, 1993. - JG

Citation Caption

Magnet, Vol.19, No.4, April 1975, p. 2

Date

9/74

TEID Doc ID

XBD9705-02270.TIF