ATOMKI is the Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The institute is located in Debrecen and was established in 1954 by Sándor Szalay, the founding 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.
+Accelerators of ATOMKI (Lovas, 2004)When Type Purpose1961–1978 800 kV cascade accelerator nuclear reactions1978–1992 same electron-atom collisions 1961–1984 300 kV neutron generator neutron physics 1971- 1 MV Van de Graaff-accelerator atomic collisions 1971- 5 MV Van de Graaff-accelerator nuclear physicsastrophysics analytics atomic collisions 1985- cyclotron (~18 MeV for proton) nuclear physics production of isotopes testing of materials1997- electron-cyclotron resonance ion source plasma physics atomic physics2013Discovery of neutrino particleatomic physics nuclear physics 2014-Tandetronnuclear physics
See also X17 particle
References
Further reading Booklet including brief history of the institute (page 7)
External links
Discovery of neutrino particle