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.
TUNL Organization
TUNL is a US Department of Energy Center of
Excellence in Nuclear Physics located on the campus of Duke University. Faculty
from three consortium universities : Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supervise about 40 graduate students
conducting research projects on a wide variety of topics that include nuclear astrophysics,
fundamental symmetries, neutrino physics, weak interactions, few-nucleon, sub-nucleon,
and many-body systems, and applications of nuclear physics to address current needs of the society.
Calvin Howell is the director of TUNL. There are five associate directors, two from consortium universities
other than Duke, an associate director for the light source operations at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory,
and the associate director of the Nuclear Physics at the HIGS facility.
The TUNL director is assisted by two internal and two external committees regarding management and
setting forth long-range research interests of the TUNL community.
TUNL Main Office Contacts
1 (919) 660 2600
Duke University, Room 416,
TUNL Bldg, P. O. Box 90308,
Durham, NC 27708-0308, USA
bwest@tunl.duke.edu