Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System

ATLAS is the world's first superconducting linear accelerator for heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. This is the energy domain best suited to study the properties of the nucleus, the core of matter, the fuel of stars. ATLAS can provide beams of essentially all stable isotopes from proton to uranium, and a variety of light radioactive beams through our in-flight production program and heavier neutron-rich isotopes from the newly commissioned CARIBU upgrade. ATLAS is a National User Facility and as such hosts 200-300 Users each year. It is supported by the Office of Nuclear Physics of the Department of Energy. The Users come from U.S. universities and national laboratories as well as from foreign institutions. The facility is also accessible to industrial Users.