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 laboratories, United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, a hamlet of the Brookhaven, New York, Town of Brookhaven. It w ...
(BNL) in New York, USA, as part of the Science Accelerator Stewardship. Commencing operation in 1992, the BNL-ATF carries out research and development in collaboration with other labs around the world 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.
References
External links
BNL-ATF home page
Particle accelerators
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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