Physics at the Munich Tandem Accelerator Laboratory

Abstract

This report describes experiments performed at the Munich tandem accelerator during the past decade. It covers nuclear structure studies, also with respect to astro- and particle physics as well as for the understanding of fundamental symmetries. The extremely sensitive detection of long-lived radionuclides from Supernova or r-process production with accelerator mass spectrometry is described. Studies of the elemental composition of materials surfaces with extreme depth and lateral resolution are presented. The ion microbeam is also used in radiobiology to study the response of living cells on well-defined irradiations. In medical research new therapeutic methods of tumour irradiation are tested using proton minibeams as well as the determination of ion ranges in tissue with acoustical techniques. Primary and secondary beams from the accelerator are also used for development and testing of detector components in large setups, e.g. at the LHC.