ATOMKI

ATOMKI main entrance

ATOMKI is the Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The institute was established in 1954 by Sándor Szalay the founder director.

ATOMKI became independent from the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Kossuth Lajos University (presently called University of Debrecen), where Sándor Szalay started and directed nuclear physics research for decades. At present, the main research fields of Atomki are atom-, nuclear-, and particle physics, ion beam analytics, technique of detection and signal processing, environmental analytics, radioactive dating, radiochemistry, and solid state physics. The director is Zsolt Dombrádi, D.Sc..

Some of its buildings were originally the National Orphanage for Teachers' Children, built in 1917.[1]

Accelerators of the ATOMKI (Lovas, 2004)
WhenTypePurpose
1961–1978800 kV cascade acceleratornuclear reactions
1978–1992sameelectron-atom collisions
1961–1984300 kV neutron generatorneutron physics
1971-1 MV Van de Graaff-acceleratoratomic collisions
1971-5 MV Van de Graaff-acceleratornuclear physics
astrophysics
analytics
atomic collisions
1985-cyclotron (~18 MeV for proton)nuclear physics
production of isotopes
testing of materials
1997-electron-cyclotron resonance ion sourceplasma physics
atomic physics
2014- Tandetron nuclear physics

References

  1. ↑ "Old photos". ATOMKI. Retrieved 27 June 2010.

Further reading

  • Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Debrecen (pdf). 2004. p. 28. Booklet including brief history of the institute (page 7)


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