FOREWARD
This 1995 meeting (SNEAP 29) of the Symposium of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel was held at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory in Durham North Carolina. This laboratory is located on the campus of Duke University but is operated and staffed by the three local Universities: Duke University, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Duke University has had an accelerator-based Nuclear Structure Research program since 1951. It was the home of the first commercially produced Electrostatic Van de Graaff made by High Voltage Engineering. It was used for nuclear structure research, accelerating protons, deuterons, helium-3 and helium-4 ions up until 1985 when it was retired. A second Van de Graaff accelerator – a model K-3000– was purchased ten years later and housed it in a small building behind the Physics building. It was also used for nuclear structure research – originally with neutrons but in the early 1970’s a program of high energy-resolution proton beam studies was initiated which continues to this day. In 1965, the three regional Universities made a joint proposal for a regional nuclear physics facility based on a 15 MeV injector cyclotron and a 15 MeV model FN tandem. Funded in 1967, thisnew facility became known as the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) and it continues to thrive today with four operating accelerators.
This laboratory is a training facility for new PhD’s in Nuclear physics. TUNL produces nearly 10% of the PhD’s in Nuclear Physics in the entire country. We have not operators and a small operations staff so graduate students are required to learn how to operate the accelerators as well as their experimental apparatus. It is very much a “hands on” facility and our degree students leave with a good knowledge of experimental hardware andsoftware.
The organizers wish to thank the corporate sponsors and exhibitors for their generous support of the meeting. Without their support, many of the social interaction aspects of this meeting would not have been possible.We would also like to acknowledge the support provided by the Director of TUNL,Dr. Russell Roberson and the assistance of Mrs. Pat Gibson and Mrs, Bobby Collins-Perry.
We look forward to next fall when SNEAP 30 will move back to the North –East as it is hosted by theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole Massachusetts.
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory Chris Westerfeldt
January 1996E. Paul Carter