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The Tandem Accelerator Laboratory of NCSR “Demokritos”: current status and perspectives

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The Tandem Accelerator Laboratory of NCSR “Demokritos,” Athens, Greece, is presented. A technical description of the laboratory, the installed setups together with currently implemented upgrades and associated funded projects are given. A few highlights as well as future upgrade plans and access possibilities to external users are also presented.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge support of this work by the project CALIBRA/EYIE (MIS 5002799), which is implemented under the Action “Reinforcement of the Research and Innovation Infrastructures,” funded by the Operational Programme “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation” (NSRF 2014–2020) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund). The external ion beam setup was funded by the program ATT 29, PEP Attikis, cofunded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology, Ministry of Development and the EU. The APAPES project has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) Research Funding Program: THALES. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund, Grant No. MIS 377289. The IR2 facility has been supported within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 and 2019–2020 under Grant Agreement No. 633053. The relevant views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission.

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  1. TANDEM Accelerator Laboratory, Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, NCSR “Demokritos”, 153.10 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    S. Harissopulos, M. Andrianis, M. Axiotis, A. Lagoyannis, A. G. Karydas, Z. Kotsina & A. Laoutaris

  2. Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Science and Technology, Energy and Safety, NCSR “Demokritos”, 153.10, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    G. Apostolopoulos & A. Theodorou

  3. Department of Physics, University of Crete, 700.13, Heraklion, Greece

    A. Laoutaris, T. J. M. Zouros & I. Madesis

  4. Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, 451.10, Ioannina, Greece

    E. P. Benis

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Harissopulos, S., Andrianis, M., Axiotis, M. et al. The Tandem Accelerator Laboratory of NCSR “Demokritos”: current status and perspectives. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 617 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01596-5

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