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The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Published Jul 27, 2010 · J. Grames, Hugh Montgomery, D. Higinbotham
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The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) [1] in Newport News, Virginia, USA, is one of ten national laboratories [2] under the aegis of the Office of Science [3] of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [4]. It is managed and operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC [5]. The primary facility at Jefferson Lab is the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) as shown in an aerial photograph in Figure . Jefferson Lab was created in 1984 as CEBAF and started operations for physics in 1995. The accelerator uses superconducting radio-frequency [6] (srf) techniques to generate high-quality beams of electrons with high-intensity, well-controlled polarization. The technology has enabled ancillary facilities to be created. The CEBAF facility is used by an international user community of more than 1200 physicists for a program of exploration and study of nuclear, hadronic matter, the strong interaction and quantum chromodynamics. Additionally, the exceptional quality of the beams facilitates studies of the fundamental symmetries of nature, which complement those of atomic physics on the one hand and of high-energy particle physics on the other. The facility is in the midst of a project to double the energy of the facility [7] and to enhance and expand its experimental facilities. Studies are also pursued with a Free-Electron Laser [8] produced by an energy-recovering linear accelerator.
The Jefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) uses superconducting radio-frequency techniques to generate high-quality electron beams for exploration and study of nuclear, hadronic matter, strong interactions, and quantum chromodynamics.
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