HIGS . . .
The newest accelerator facility operated by TUNL is the HIGS at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL). The DFELL houses an accelerator based photon source in a 52,000 square-foot facility. There are two types of primary photon beams available at the DFELL: the HIGS with energies from 2 to 60 MeV and an optical beam with continuous tunable wavelength from IR to VUV. Both photon beam types are produced by an electron storage ring free electron laser (FEL) and its undulators.
HIGS Call for Proposals :: Deadline for Proposals : Friday, April 29th, 2011
This is the annual call for proposals for nuclear-physics experiments at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS). These proposals will be reviewed by the HIGS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) at their annual meeting which will be held in June at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) located on the campus of Duke University. Experiments which are approved by the PAC will be placed in a queue and will be scheduled for beam time as early as spring of 2012. Beams with energies up to 100 MeV are available now. Details of the presently available beams as well as general information about ΗΙGS can be seen at
here. Priority will be given to proposals which include TUNL collaborators. We plan to operate HIGS for about 1200 hours per year for nuclear physics during this running period.
A detailed description on how to prepare the proposal is inlcuded in the
project description templates.
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