Applied Nuclear Physics Department

EMMAS 3MV Tandetron^TM

The Center for Nuclear Spectrometry for Energy, the Environment, Materials and Health

The 3 MV Tandetron Accelerator was installed and commissioned in 2012 and is mainly dedicated to applied research. The facility is fully equipped to perform a variety of studies:

Ion Beam Analysis on a wide range of materials	using techniques such as Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), elastic recoil analysis (ERDA) or particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE)
Implantation and Irradiation experiments with ion beams	for different types of advanced materials (in order to modify their properties or test their radiation hardness), or for biological samples (to test the effects on cell cultures)
Cross-Section Measurements	for nuclear fusion and other reactions of interest to nuclear astrophysics

RoAMS 1MV Tandetron^TM

Romanian Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Lab

The 1MV Tandetron^TM accelerator was installed and commissioned in 2012 and is the only Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) installation in Romania. The importance of AMS lies in its unmatched sensitivity in analysing isotopic ratios. A single atom can be identified among one million billion other atoms, which represents a huge advantage for applications in various fields of research:

Archaeology	Artefact dating with organic compounds, palaeoanthropology studies
Geology and Palaeogeomorphology	Determining geological erosion rates and analysing erosion characteristics
Atmospheric physics and Palaeoclimatology	¹⁰Be as atmospheric transport processes tracer
Medicine	investigations of ¹⁴C as a medical marker and ²⁶Al as a pharmaceutical marker
Environmental radiocontamination	Nuclear pollution control, monitoring of nuclear activities, oceanography studies
Nuclear astrophysics	Tracing the origin of elements to astrophysical processes

CCR TR-19 Cyclotron

Center for Radiopharmaceutical Research

The TR-19 Cyclotron is a versatile, fully automated device that accelerates negative ions from an external source to an energy of up to 19 MeV. Together with hot cells for radiochemical processing and pharmaceutical preparation, the cyclotron is an integrated research infrastructure.

Outstanding irradiation capacity	can provide the necessary medical radioisotopes for Positron Emission Tomography at national level
Impressive adaptability	contributes to research (fundamental, preclinical and clinical) and development of radiopharmaceuticals, as well as development of medical applications of nuclear physics

TIESR

Testing, trials and experiments with radiation sources

We use state-of-the-art equipment for imaging and spectrometry studies with a wide range of applications. Some of the fields that we are particularly engaged in are:

Archaeometry	Imaging and chemical composition analysis of artefacts and heritage objects
Detection systems	Evaluation of active materials for radiation detection and acquisition