Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (TASCC) was a Canadian
particle accelerator
A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies, and to contain them in well-defined beams.
Large accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle ...
facility constructed at
Chalk River Laboratories on October 3, 1986. TASCC was the world's first Tandem Accelerator and able to accelerate most elements to 10
MeV
In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV, also written electron-volt and electron volt) is the measure of an amount of kinetic energy gained by a single electron accelerating from rest through an electric potential difference of one volt in vacu ...
per
nucleon
In physics and chemistry, a nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, considered in its role as a component of an atomic nucleus. The number of nucleons in a nucleus defines the atom's mass number (nucleon number).
Until the 1960s, nucleons were ...
. The TASCC facility was decommissioned beginning in 1996.
Letter to the Editor from D.F. (David) Torgerson
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See also
* Canadian Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer
References
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Particle physics facilities
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