Research Facilities :: ATF @ BNL

Description:
The Accelerator Test Facility at Brookhaven National Labs in New York, is a state-of-the-art laboratory, with a helpful staff dedicated to the safety of the users and the advancement of science. The ATF is a proposal-driven, Program-Committee-reviewed, Users'-Facility dedicated for long-term R&D in Physics of Beams. The ATF core capabilities include a high-brightness photoinjector electron gun, a 70 MeV linac, high power lasers synchronized to the electron beam to a picosecond level, four beam lines (most with energy spectrometers) and a sophisticated computer control system.

PBPL's collaboration with the ATF includes many experiments:

• VISA (henceforth VISA I). A successful High Gain FEL experiment (completed 2001).
• VISA II. An ongoing follow up experiment to VISA exploring different regimes (estimated completion April 2004).
• Chicane Compressor. A major, state-of-the-art hardware upgrade to the infrastructure at the ATF (installation completed 2003, commissioning early 2004).

The current gun installed at ATF-BNL:

The ATF Home page has been recently redesigned and is an invaluable source of information. It includes pictures, parameter tables, experiment descriptions, hardware and software documentation, contact information, and many other useful links.

The Core Capabilities of the ATF are briefly summarized below.

Table of Capabilities: