Daghlian Ion Accelerator Laboratory

The accelerator lab began life in Holmes Hall in 1979 using a 400 kV High Voltage Engineering Van de Graaff accelerator. In 1985 the lab moved on-campus to Bill Hall. In 1994 we received a grant from NSF to purchase an entirely new accelerator. The old machine was retired (at least from Conn.) in May 1995.  The new accelerator is a 1 million volt Pelletron built by National Electrostatics Corp which was installed in the Olin building on Aug. 1, 1995.

                                      

    The "Lab Crew" of Fall, 1999, in front of the White House (we got a tour courtesy of Matt Moore's father, Duncan Moore, who works in the President's Science office). Back row: Mike Monce, Jay Eno, Matt Moore, Front row: Jen Kiehling, Tom Ammirati

Projects

 

Ion-Molecule Collisions

 

PIXE analysis of materials