Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
Dust Accelerator Laboratory (DAL)
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- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- LASP
Description
IMPACT laboratory housing a 3 MV linear electrostatic dust accelerator (Pelletron) that launches micron and submicron particles to velocities approaching 100 km/s for impact research and calibration of space dust instruments; the lab includes a particle selection unit, LEIL, UHV, ice and gas target chambers, and a 20 kV mini-accelerator.
Official page
https://impact.colorado.edu/facilities.html
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Contact
- Contact
- Prof. Tobin Munsat (tobin.munsat@colorado.edu); Prof. Mihaly Horanyi (mihaly.horanyi@lasp.colorado.edu); mailing address 390 UCB
Details
- Keywords
- electrostatic dust accelerator, dust instrument calibration, particle selection unit, ultra high vacuum chamber, ice target chamber, micrometeoroid ablation, hypervelocity dust impact
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado
- Associated entity
- IMPACT, University of Colorado Boulder (LASP link implied via mihaly.horanyi@lasp.colorado.edu; LASP not named on page)
- Specifications
- Particles 0.03-2 um, 0.5-115 km/s; vacuum low 1e-7 Torr; beam ~6 mm Gaussian; rates 0.5-1/s unselected; DAQ 12-bit NI PXI-5124, LeCroy 104Xi-A