The Accelerator Test Facility at Brookhaven: Main capabilities

Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL's) Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) is a user facility for accelerator- and beam- physics. Researchers from national and foreign universities, the DOE's national laboratories, and small businesses can carry out their experiments here, thereby relieving their institutions and companies from the large investment in accelerators, lasers, control and diagnostic equipment, and trained accelerator operators, all of which BNL's ATF offers. The main emphasis of this paper is on the capabilities of the ATF that I illustrate by discussing a few experiments. More detailed information can be obtained from the ATF web site: http://www.bnl.gov/atf