Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
12.02.2025

Test run at the LINAC-200 electron linear accelerator successfully done

Today, on 12 February 2025, a test run of the electron beam with the energy of 25 MeV has been successfully done at the LINAC-200 linear accelerator. Tomorrow, the opening ceremony of the new basic facility of the Laboratory of Nuclear Problems will be held by the members of the Scientific Council and JINR Directorate.

The LINAC-200 linear accelerator (the first stage of the LINAC-800 facility) at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems at JINR is a facility designed to provide electron test beams to carry out particle detectors R&D; for scientific and methodological work on the search for advanced methods and the creation of equipment for electron beam diagnostics; for applied research in the field of radiation material science, radiobiology and radiochemistry; for conducting experiments in the field of nuclear physics; and for educational projects.

The basis of the facility is a reconstructed MEA accelerator given to JINR by the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF, Holland). The key subsystems of the accelerator were redesigned or significantly upgraded.