Completed in 1970, the Tandem Van de Graaff facility at Brookhaven was for many years the world's largest electrostatic accelerator facility. " It can provide researchers with beams of more than 40 different types of ions -- atoms that have been stripped of their electrons. Ions ranging from hydrogen to uranium are available. The facility consists of two 15 million volt electrostatic accelerators, each about 24 meters long, aligned end-to-end. These may be used independently, or one machine may be used as the injector for the other. "
"To study heavy ion collisions at high energies, a 700 meter-long tunnel and beam transport system called the Heavy Ion Transport Line were completed in 1986, allowing the delivery of heavy ions from Tandem to the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) for further acceleration. At the time, this modification opened an entirely new area of research at the AGS. The HITL now makes it possible for the Tandem to serve as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider's ions source. "
NASA used the Tandem to do heavy ion bombardment to test components of the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft.
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