project

CASPAR

The Compact Accelerator System for Performing Astrophysical Research, a low-energy particle accelerator run underground in South Dakota to measure nuclear reactions that occur inside stars. It is led from the University of Notre Dame.

Known aliases

Compact Accelerator System for Performing Astrophysical Research

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Current clusters

science1 publisher

CASPAR restarts on fluorine after 18 months of trial and error on the target

CASPAR, the Notre Dame-led accelerator nearly a mile under South Dakota, has begun firing protons at a fluorine target that took a year and a half to build. The run has not yet produced published numbers.

Publishers:phys.org

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