Abstract
Fast heavy ions previously could be studied only in the outer space where they form important components of primary cosmic rays. Recent developments in accelerator technology have made it possible to obtain energetic heavy ions in the laboratory. In August 1971, the Princeton Particle Accelerator (1, 2) and the Berkeley Bevatron (3) produced penetrating deflected beams of nitrogen nuclei. Following these achievements, heavy ion beams of much higher intensity than ever produced before were accelerated in Berkeley in August 1974 by using the existing Super HILAC (HILAC modified to accelerate all ions through uranium to an energy of 8.5 MeV/n) as preaccelerator and injecting its low-energy heavy-ion beams for synchrotron acceleration in the Bevatron: the BEVELAC project. A complete description of the BEVALAC project is described elsewhere (4). Particles accelerated in BEVALAC can have a maximum energy of 2.1 GeV/nucleon.
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