The Accelerator Test Facility (BNL-ATF) is a user facility within the

Brookhaven National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment c ...

(BNL) in New York, USA. Commencing operation in 1992, the BNL-ATF carries out research and development on advanced

accelerator physics Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described as the study of motion, manipulation and observation of relativistic charged particle beams ...

and studies the interactions of high power electromagnetic radiation and high brightness electron beams, including plasma-acceleration and laser-acceleration of electrons.

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BNL-ATF home page
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