50 Years - Science & Technology Facilities Council
50 Years - Science & Technology Facilities Council
50 Years - Science & Technology Facilities Council
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1960s<br />
Laboratory staff positioning magnet coils during the assembly of NINA. These electro magnets (NINA had 40) steered the electron beam and<br />
forced it through a circular path within a vacuum enclosure. Built in 1964 NINA was a 5GeV electron accelerator for particle physics studies.<br />
Every 1/<strong>50</strong>th of a second the electron beam was extracted and sent to one of the four beamlines in the Outer<br />
Hall. The beam sent to the experiments was either the 5GeV electrons or gamma rays (photons), which were<br />
produced by colliding electrons with tungsten targets.<br />
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