The New Uppsala Accelerator Facilities and their Experimental Programs

Abstract

A new laboratory for the three accelerators in Uppsala, the EN tandem, the Gustaf Werner synchrocyclotron and the CELSIUS cooler ring, has just been formed by merging the Gustaf Werner Institute and the Tandem Accelerator Laboratory. The laboratory is called The Svedberg Laboratory after The Svedberg, founder and first director of the Gustaf Werner Institute and Nobel prize winner of chemistry in 1926. The laboratory operates the three accelerators and has also some research positions. At the same time,the new Department of Radiation Sciences was established for teaching and research in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, ion physics and physical biology. In the laboratory overview of fig. 1, the Gustaf Werner synchrocyclotron and CELSIUS can be seen together with their experimental areas. The synchrocyclotron will serve as injector machine of CELSIUS, but is has also a wide experimental program of its own.