Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) provides beams of californium-252 fission fragments, neutron-rich isotopes far from stability, for experimenters. The nuCARIBU system provides beams obtained from neutron-induced fission of uranium-235.

Using the in-flight technique, several hundred radioactive ion beams can be produced and made available to many different end stations.

High-precision heavy-ion beams ranging over all possible elements, from hydrogen to uranium, can be accelerated to energies as high as 18 MeV per nucleon and delivered to many different experimental end stations.

Today, much of science focuses on observing signals that are extremely small, faint, or far away. 

In order to build the next generation of technologies, scientists need to understand how materials look and behave at smaller and smaller scales.

The challenge of creating new advanced batteries and energy storage technologies is one of Argonne’s key initiatives.

To develop a more thorough understanding of combustion, scientists and engineers must be able to analyze the interaction of many different chemical species at high temperatures and pressures.

Many different types of chemical reactions depend on catalysts in order to work, and the hunt for better catalysts has deep connections to our nation’s economy.

Scientists around the world rely on particle accelerators to yield insights on the structure and function of materials at and below the atomic scale.

The High Energy Physics Division maintains a repository with Monte Carlo simulations for current and future particle-collision experiments.