The Bevalac at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab is now accelerating uranium ions. This photographic emulsion shows the last half millimeter of track for three uranium ions accelerated to 150 MeV/nucleon. The bottom nucleus is seen to split into fragments. With its new injector for the Superhilac and a new Bevatron vacuum system, the Bevalac (as one calls the tandem system of Superhilac and Bevatron) is now capable of accelerating uranium to 900 MeV/nucleon.

Topics
Vacuum systems, Emulsions, Baryons, Chemical elements
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© 1982 American Institute of Physics.
1982
American Institute of Physics
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