What is "atomki"

ATOMKI is the Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The institute was established in 1954 by Sándor Szalay the founder director.

ATOMKI became independent from the Institute of Experimental Physics of the Kossuth Lajos University (presently called University of Debrecen), where Sándor Szalay started and directed nuclear physics research for decades. At present, the main research fields of Atomki are atom-, nuclear-, and particle physics, ion beam analytics, technique of detection and signal processing, environmental analytics, radioactive dating, radiochemistry, and solid state physics. The director is Zsolt Fülöp, D.Sc..

Some of its buildings were originally the National Orphanage for Teachers' Children, built in 1917.

Accelerators of the ATOMKI (Lovas, 2004)

When

Type

Purpose

1961–1978

800 k V cascade accelerator

nuclear reactions

1978–1992

same

electron-atom collisions

1961–1984

300 kV neutron generator

neutron physics

1971-

1 MV Van de Graaff-accelerator

atomic collisions

1971-

5 MV Van de Graaff-accelerator

nuclear physics
astrophysics
analytics
atomic collisions

1985-

cyclotron (~18 M eV for proton)

nuclear physics
production of isotopes
testing of materials

1997-

electron-cyclotron resonance ion source

plasma physics
atomic physics