High Voltage Accelerators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory operated by Union Carbide Corporation. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Brochure. Format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. Sixteen pages plus covers. Illustrated covers (color). Illustrations (some in color). References. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The documents starts out with a discussion of Accelerators, Past and Present, High Voltage Accelerator Laboratory, the Accelerator Concept, the Van De Graaff Principle, the Cockcroft-Walton Accelerator, the 3mV Van de Graaff, 5.5MV Van de Graaff, The Tandem Concept, The Tandem van de Graaff, Experimental Nuclear Physics, and Special Facilities. Tasked in 1948 with developing an accelerator program to, initially, produce neutrons for research, Oak Ridge scientists begin acquiring or building Van de Graaff accelerators, the only known source of neutrons with precise energies. They later acquire a Cockcroft-Walton unit, an early particle accelerator named for its inventors, to test radiation effects at lower energies. More