2006 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS
Thursday–Saturday, November 9–11, 2006;
Williamsburg, Virginia
Session JA: Tour of Jefferson Laboratory
1:00 PM–5:00 PM,
Friday, November 10, 2006
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.SES.JA.1
Abstract: JA.00001 : Tour of Jefferson Laboratory
1:00 PM–5:00 PM
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The Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility was constructed between 1987 and 1992. Operation of its
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, based on superconducting
radio-frequency accelerating technology, began in 1994. This it is the
world's most advanced particle accelerator for investigating the quark
structure of the atomic nucleus. Today JLab employs over 500 staff
members and serves a nuclear physics user community of over 2000
international scientists, including many faculty and students from the
SESAPS region. With industry, defense and university partners, Jefferson
Lab has a derivative mission as well: applied research for using the
Free-Electron Lasers based on technology the laboratory developed to
conduct its physics experiments.
Buses will leave the Williamsburg Hospitality house beginning at 1 PM
for the 17-mile trip to Jefferson Lab. Once there, visitors will
circulate among six sites, where they can see the CEBAF accelerator and
its operations center, experimental halls where beams interact with
targets to explore details of the sub-nuclear force, and a
kilowatt-class high average-power, sub-picosecond free-electron laser,
covering the mid-infrared and ultraviolet spectral region. Buses will be
available to return visitors to the Williamsburg Hospitality House until
5 PM.
You must be 18 years old or over to attend the tour. There will be a
lot of walking. Safety requirements dictate pants and close-toed shoes
with no sandals or high heels. Note that the accelerator portion of the
tour is NOT handicapped accessible and you must be able to walk up and
down four flights of stairs.
*Important Notice for JLab visitors who were born outside the United
States.* U.S. Department of Energy headquarters approval is required
before any persons whose country of birth is Cuba, Iran, Libya, North
Korea, Sudan or Syria can enter DOE facilities, including Jefferson Lab.
Visitors from these countries may not be on site or tour Jefferson Lab
without first going through this formal approval process. This process
may take up to six (6) months. Please contact Linda Ware at
ware@jlab.org if you have questions or need to apply to the DOE for the
tour.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2006.SES.JA.1