TSL Documents
Transnational Access within the
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative.
| Research Infrastructure: | The Svedberg Laboratory |
| Project name: | Transnational Access to The Svedberg Laboratory |
| Web-site address: | http://www.tsl.uu.se/ |
| Parent Organisation: | Uppsala University |
| Project Manager: | Prof. Curt Ekström |
| The Svedberg Laboratory | |
| Box 533 | |
| SE-751 21 Uppsala | |
| Phone: +46 18 471 3112 | |
| Fax: +46 18 471 3833 | |
| E-mail: curt.ekstrom@tsl.uu.se | |
| Contract Number: | 506078 |
| Contractual Period: | January 1, 2004 December 31, 2007; 48 months |
Description of Facility:
The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) is a facility for accelerator-based research operating one
accelerator, a cyclotron. The cyclotron is giving a wide range of ion beams of various energies up to 185 MeV for protons and
8 MeV/nucleon for xenon ions. The cyclotron has an internal ion source for light ions as well as an external ECR
source for multiply charged heavy ions. In the beam lines of the cyclotron there are various detector systems for
charged particles, neutrons and gamma radiation. One of the beam lines contains a facility for mono-energetic neutron
beams of energies between 25 and 180 MeV and intensities of up to 106 neutrons/sec.
Historical notes:
The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL) had until summer 2005 another accelerator, a storage and cooler ring called CELSIUS.
The cyclotron acted as the injector to the CELSIUS ring.
The CELSIUS ring was a synchrotron, equipped with an electron cooler, giving maximum energies of
1.36 GeV for protons and 470 MeV/nucleon for light ions (A < 40) with a charge-to-mass ratio of 1/2.
The main activity at the CELSIUS ring was the study of light meson production and decay.
The pions and eta mesons were produced in light-ion collisions and the decay products were recorded
in a 4 pi solid-angle detector, WASA, located in one of the straight sections of the CELSIUS ring.
Another important activity at the CELSIUS ring was the study of multi-fragmentation processes in heavy-ion
collisions. The collision products were detected in a charged-particle multi-detector array, CHICSi.
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