Heavy ion accelerator

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A heavy ion accelerator is a particle accelerator in which heavy ions are brought to high energies and thus speeds (the latter limited by the relativistic increase in mass ). Heavy ion accelerators are large, mostly expensive systems and are operated primarily for research purposes.

General information

Areas of application

Heavy ion accelerators are used in nuclear physics, among other things, for the synthesis of new chemical elements . In elementary particle physics they can e.g. B. can be used for experiments on quark-gluon plasma . The heavy ion therapy is a part of the radiation , they are used as a radiation source in the. Heavy ion accelerators are used in materials research, e.g. B. at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research .

Worldwide

Known heavy ion accelerators are or were at the following institutes:

• Brookhaven National Laboratory , USA , with the RHIC
• CERN , Switzerland, with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently the most powerful accelerator, in operation since the end of 2008
• GANIL in Caen , France
• Research site Garching , Germany
• GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt , Germany
• United Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna , Russia
• the Bevalac at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , USA (1970 to 1993).