NP User Facilities

The Nuclear Physics program supports the following national scientific user facilities:

The Gammasphere at ATLAS is the world's most powerful spectrometer for nuclear structure research and is especially good at collecting gamma ray data following the fusion of heavy ions.

Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS)

ATLAS is a leading facility for nuclear structure research in the United States providing a wide range of beams for nuclear reaction and structure research to a large community of users from the US and abroad.

Installation work for the new CLAS12 detector in Jefferson Lab’s Experimental Hall B continues. Here, a segment of the pre-shower calorimeter, or PCAL, is installed.

Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF)

CEBAF is a world-leading facility in the experimental study of hadronic matter, used by scientists to probe the interior of the nucleus to study its properties.

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)

FRIB, a nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics accelerator, enables scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society.

RHIC's 2.4 mile ring has six intersection points where its two rings of accelerating magnets cross, allowing the particle beams to collide.

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

RHIC is a world-class scientific research facility which hundreds of physicists from around the world use to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation.