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An accelerator is a device to accelerate various atomic nuclei such as
elemental particles including electron and proton, helium, uranium, etc.,
to a high speed. It has originally been developed to search ultramicroscopic
world of materials. We at WERC are carrying out applied research leading
to the industrialization by utilizing the accelerator. Among various types of accelerators
available depending on the particle to accelerate or its energy, we will
focus here on and describe the ion accelerator installed in WERC.
There are following types of ion accelerator.
○ Electrostatic accelerator
・Cockcroft
・Van de Graaff
・Tandem
○ Synchrotron
○ Cyclotron
○ Linac (linear-type accelerator)
 Multipurpose Synchrotron and Tandem Accelerators, W-MAST
 Installed in WERC are a tandem accelerator and a synchrotron accelerator, which can accelerate charged particles (ions) of hydrogen, helium and
carbon to a high speed. Utilizing these accelerated ions, we are carrying
out R & D works in various fields such as industry, agriculture, forestry
and aquiculture, and medicine. |
