Recent upgrades at the Tandem Laboratory of NCSR “Demokritos”

Abstract

The infrastructure of the Tandem Accelerator Laboratory (TAL) underwent a major upgrade aiming at expanding its analytical capabilities by introducing new experimental setups by providing the scientific community with better quality beams and. Moreover, through the acquiring of two new accelerators, a 17 MeV Cyclotron and an AMS Tandetron, TAL aims at broadening its multidisciplinary research interests with a wide spectrum of new techniques in the areas of material science, cultural heritage studies, biomedicine, etc. A short description of the upgrades and the new capabilities are presented.