The Institute for Nuclear Physics at the University of Cologne provides different accelerators, including a 10 MV FN-Tandem and a 6 MV Tandetron accelerator. While the latter one serves solely for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) measurements, the 10 MV FN-Tandem accelerator is used for research in nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics.

The 10 MV FN-Tandem accelerator provides beams of basically any ion-species, which can form negative ions in a beam current range between a nA and μA. Various experimental setups equipped with several high-purity germanium detectors as well as silicon particle detectors are used for investigations of nuclear reaction rates, nuclear life-times, and structures of excited states in atomic nuclei.

Linked ChETEC facility

• 10 MV FN Tandem accelerator

Web page

• https://www.ikp.uni-koeln.de/groups/zilges/forschunge.html

ChETEC contact person

• Andreas Zilges (zilgesikp.uni-koeln.de)