ARUNA Association for Research at University Nuclear Accelerators

An Association of Florida State University Accelerator Lab Hope College Ion Beam Laboratory Ohio University Accelerator Lab Texas A&M Cyclotron Lab TUNL Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab (Duke, University of N.Carolina, N.Carolina State U.) Union College Ion Beam Anaysis Laboratory University of Kentucky Accelerator Lab University of Mass. (Lowell), Radiation Lab University of Notre Dame, ISNAP University of Washington, CENPA An Organization of the users at these non-user labs. today: 176 registered users

http://aruna.physics.fsu.edu

FSU John D. Fox Laboratory

ARUNA Association for Research at University Nuclear Accelerators

U. Kentucky Accelerator Lab U. Mass Radiation Lab Ohio U Edwards Lab.

Texas A&M U.

Cyclotron Lab. University of Washington CEPNAP Notre Dame Univ.

ISNAP facilities Hope College Ion Beam Lab Union College Ion Beam Lab TUNL HIGS TUNL LENA TUNL Tandem Lab

FSU: Facility and Equipment

9 MV “FN” Tandem vdG

Beams: p – Calcium ,

9 MV Superconducting Linac

10 MeV/u up to mass 6 5 MeV/u up to mass 40 Compton-suppressed HPGe array , 3 clover + ~10 conventional RESOLUT in-flight radioative beam facility beams between mass 6 and 30 ANASEN active-target detector system ResoNeut low-energy neutron detectors

Edwards Accelerator Laboratory at Ohio University

• 4.5-MV tandem accelerator • Pelletron upgrade • p, d, 3,4 He, heavy ion beams • 30 m time-of-flight tunnel • 2 target rooms • 6 instrumented beamlines • particularly well equipped for time-of-flight experiments - neutron detection

Beam Swinger Facility Target chamber 4.5-MV T-type tandem Swinger Magnet (-4 °

 q

lab



158 ° ) 30-meter TOF Tunnel Cs Sputter Source Duoplasmatron He Source

In Progress • • • • • • T-Rex TAMUTrap SASSYER Active Target Det RTC + chemistry Radioisotope production

UK Accelerator Laboratory (UKAL)

 7-MV single-ended Van de Graaff; rf ion source  1 H, 2 H, 3 He, and 4 He beams  Terminal and post-acceleration bunching (<1 ns)  Gas targets: 0.5 to 10 MeV neutrons with 3 H(p,n) and 2 H(d,n); extended up to 25 MeV with 3 H(d,n); monoenergetic (

ΔE n

< 100 keV) neutrons  Nuclear spectroscopy with neutron time-of-flight and γ -ray (HPGe/BGO) detection  Research program continuously supported by the NSF since accelerator installation in 1964; upgrade in 1990s  DOE-Nuclear Energy University Programs funding since 2009 

A hands-on, student-run facility

Outside Inside

I N S T I T U T E F O R S T R U C T U R E A N D N N U C L E A R U C L E A R S C I E N C E A S T R O P H Y S I C S L A B O R A T O R Y

TwinSol 5 MV 5U Pelletron AMS gas-filled spectrometer 11 MV FN Pelletron St. GEORGE recoil separator 1MV JN VdG (CASPAR) 250 kV Implanter 2/11/ NSF Site Visit - February 11, 2014 14

CENPAP

I N S T I T U T E F O R S T R U C T U R E A N D

Recent work

N U C L E A R N U C L E A R S C I E N C E A S T R O P H Y S I C S L A B O R A T O R Y

Excellent 6He production developed for searches for Tensor currents.

2500000000 6He production in different labs 2000000000 1500000000 1000000000 500000000 0 TRIUMF FRIB GANIL Seattle Recent publications 22Na(p, g )23Mg and Consequences for 22Na Production in Classical Novae Sallaska, et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett.

105

, 152501 (2010).

Phys. Rev. C

83

, 034611 (2011).

Explosive hydrogen burning… Wrede et al.

Phys. Rev. C

82

, 035805 (2010) .

33S(p, g )34g,mCl at oxygen-neon nova temperatures Freeman et al., Phys. Rev. C

83

, 048801 (2011).

Precision Measurement of the 6He Half-Life and the Weak Axial Current in Nuclei Knecht et al. Phys. Rev. Lett.

108

, 122502 (2012).

Phys. Rev. C (in press).

Summary

The ARUNA labs are an important resource to nuclear science in the US.

They deliver forefront science. Many have upgrades and new programs coming up. The “beam time crisis” at the national user facilities can be cushioned by adequately supporting operations and science at these facilities.