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4.5 MeV Tandem Accelerator at
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Welcome
The John E. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory was established when Ohio University received a one-million dollar grant from the Atomic Energy Commission in the
late sixties for an accelerator. As other accelerators have been closed down across the country, we find ourselves in a unique position. We have the only MeV ion accelerator in a college or
university in Ohio. Many of our individual capabilities are now not available anywhere else in the U.S. The 4.5 million volt tandem accelerator is still being used today and the breadth of research
covered now includes materials science as well as nuclear physics. The work encompasses many areas of both pure and applied research.
The Ohio University Accelerator Laboratory (O.U.A.L.), named as the John E. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory, is located on the Athens campus across from the Clippinger
research laboratories in the hillside behind Gordy Hall. The original laboratory building was constructed in 1967 at a cost of $337,288. In 1994, it was expanded to 17,400 square feet
with most of the experimental areas located underground. The accelerator itself took 18 months to manufacture and over 10 months to install with the first experiments starting in 1971.
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