TASCC newsletter. Vol. 4 no. 8

The tandem accelerator was shut down for two weeks for installation of a set of four new pelletron charging chains and a conductive pulley system. A new mounting assembly was also installed on the low-energy buncher. Before the shutdown two 8-pi experiments, and ISOL experiment, and a cyclotron beam development run were performed. Following the shutdown a steel sample was irradiated with deuterons, tests were made of detectors in the Q3D spectrometer, and another 8-pi experiment was started. A five-day run in the cyclotron with carbon 12 accelerated to 10 MeV/nucleon was used to investigate wto methods of calculating trim-rod settings. (L.L.)