Renovation of the Nuclear Physics Lab

9214358 Guzman匹兹堡大学物理与天文系申请资金，将核物理实验室（NPL）改造和升级为一个现代化的设施，以支持高、中、核能和固态物理。目前的设施建于1964年，设有一个三级范德格拉夫加速器，自1989年以来一直没有运行过。随着Van de Graaff项目的终止，大约50%的设施已被50%的研究人员使用。虽然未充分利用和需要翻新，核物理实验室具有基本的公用设施和特殊的功能，使其成为现代化实验室的理想选择。研究项目，目前位于艾伦大厅，一个不合标准和拥挤的建筑，将搬到国家物理实验室一旦装修完成。除了整修实验室空间外，整修工作还将包括拆除范德格拉夫加速器和两个大型磁铁，进行化学和放射性净化，以及安装额外的化学处理设施。将安装开发硅探测器和线室开发所需的洁净室设施。翻新将提供功能性实验室空间，以加强教师之间的互动，为学生提供高质量的研究培训，以及进行现有设施过于庞大或要求过高的实验项目的能力。

9214358 Guzman The University of Pittsburgh's Department of Physics and Astronomy requests funds to renovate and upgrade the Nuclear Physics Laboratory (NPL) into a modernized facility that will support high, intermediate, and nuclear energy, and solid state physics. The present facility, constructed in 1964, houses a three-stage Van de Graaff accelerator that has not been in operation since 1989. With the termination of the Van de Graaff program, approximately 50% of the facility has been used by 50% of the research faculty. Though underutilized and in need of renovation, the Nuclear Physics Laboratory has basic utilities and special features that make it ideal for a modernized laboratory. Research programs, currently located in Allen Hall, a substandard and overcrowded building, will be moved to the NPL once renovations are completed. In addition to refurbishing laboratory space, renovations will include the removal of the Van de Graaff accelerators and two large magnets, chemical and radioactive decontamination, and the installation of additional chemical handling facilities. Clean room facilities, necessary for the development of silicon detectors and for wire chamber development, will be installed. The renovations will provide functional laboratory space that will enhance interaction among faculty, quality research training for students, and the ability to conduct experimental projects that are too large or demanding of existing facilities.