Aerial view of Rutherford Appleton Lab. The prominent silver ring is the Diamond Light Source.

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at the Chilton/Harwell Science Campus is a UK scientific research laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire. It has a staff of around 1,200 who support the work of over 10,000 scientists and engineers, mainly from the university research community. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x665, 612 KB) Summary An aerial view of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Taken from http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x665, 612 KB) Summary An aerial view of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Taken from http://www. ... St. ... Statistics Population: 25,231 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SU525900 Administration District: South Oxfordshire Shire county: Oxfordshire Region: South East England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Oxfordshire Historic county: Berkshire Services Police force: Thames Valley Police Ambulance: South Central Post office and telephone Post town... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...

RAL is run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). It is named after the physicists Ernest Rutherford and Edward Appleton. Science and Technology Facilities Council Logo The Science and Technology Facilities Council (or Scitech) is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astronomy. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. ... Sir Edward Victor Appleton (September 6, 1892 – April 21, 1965) was an English physicist. ...

The Rutherford High Energy Laboratory was set up on the former RAF Harwell airfield between Chilton and Harwell in 1957, and merged with the Atlas Computer Laboratory and Appleton Laboratory in 1975 and 1979 respectively, to form the current laboratory. RAF Harwell was a Royal Air Force airfield in Oxfordshire, England, and later the site of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. ... St. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... The Atlas Computer Laboratory at Harwell Laboratory was the site of one of two examples of the Manchester Atlas computer. ... The Radio Research Station 1924 - August 31, 1979 at Ditton Park was the UK government research laboratory which pioneered the regular observation of the ionosphere by ionosondes in continuous operation since September 20, 1932, and applied the ionosonde technology for the first developments which lead to British Chain Home radar... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) was set up to run RAL and Daresbury Laboratory in 1996. In 2007, the CCLRC became part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC or CLRC) is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering. ... Daresbury Laboratory (DL) is a UK scientific research laboratory near Daresbury in Cheshire. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Science and Technology Facilities Council Logo The Science and Technology Facilities Council (or Scitech) is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astronomy. ...

RAL hosts ISIS, the brightest spallation neutron source in the world, which uses neutron scattering to study the structure and behaviour of materials, providing research capabilities for around 1600 scientists from a range of disciplines, and has been operating since 1985. ISIS experimental hall The ISIS facility is a scientific research institution, situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK. It contains a pulsed spallation neutron source, the most powerful in the world, which enables muon and neutron scattering science to probe the structure and properties of matter, from the... In general, spallation is a process in which fragments of material are ejected from a body due to impact or stress. ... A neutron source is a device, used in solid state physics (see neutron diffraction), particle physics and to start nuclear chain reactions, that emits neutrons. ... The term Neutron Scattering encompasses all scientific techniques whereby neutrons are used as a scientific probe. ... This article is about the year. ...

RAL was chosen as the site for the synchrotron light source Diamond, which officially opened in January 2007. Synchrotron radiation emerging from a beam port. ... Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron research facility located on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

The Central Laser Facility, which houses the Vulcan and Astra lasers, is also located in RAL. For alternative meanings see laser (disambiguation). ...

RAL also hosts a number of other resources and services in particle physics, microelectronics, atmospheric sciences, space science, spectroscopy and renewable energy research. Thousands of particles explode from the collision point of two relativistic (100 GeV per nucleon) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. ... Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. ... Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. ... Space science is an all-encompassing term that describes most all of the various science fields that are concerned with the study of the Universe, generally also meaning excluding the Earth and outside of the Earths atmosphere. Originally, all of these fields were considered part of astronomy. ... Extremely high resolution spectrogram of the Sun showing thousands of elemental absorption lines (fraunhofer lines) Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between radiation (electromagnetic radiation, or light, as well as particle radiation) and matter. ... Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. ...

Projects

RAL staff are involved with a huge number of national and international projects.

• Space Science and Technology
  • EISCAT
• E-Science
  • Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Particle Physics
  • Large Hadron Collider
    • LHC Computing Grid
    • ATLAS experiment
    • LHCb
    • Compact Muon Solenoid
    • International Linear Collider
  • MINOS - Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search
• Technology
  • Microelectronics Support Centre (MSC)
• ISIS - neutron source
• Diamond - synchrotron light source.

EISCAT is an acronym for the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association. ... E-science is computationally intensive science. ... // The EGEE project Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is project funded by the European Commissions Sixth Framework Programme through Directorate F: Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, of the Directorate-General for Information Society and Media. ... Thousands of particles explode from the collision point of two relativistic (100 GeV per nucleon) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. ... The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland (). Currently under construction, the LHC is scheduled to begin operation in May 2008. ... ATLAS experiment detector under construction in October 2004 in its experimental pit; the current status of construction can be seen here. ... The LHCb (standing for Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment is one of four large particle physics detector experiments being constructed on the Large Hadron Collider accelerator at CERN. LHCb is a specialist b-physics experiment, particularly aimed at measuring the parameters of CP violation in the interactions of b-hadrons... // The sentence producing a rare particle, such as a Higgs boson proves this article was not written and checked by physicists, despiste ip are from cern. ... The International Linear Collider is a proposed linear particle accelerator. ... Front face of the MINOS far detector. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... The speedy deletion of this page is contested. ... ISIS experimental hall The ISIS facility is a scientific research institution, situated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK. It contains a pulsed spallation neutron source, the most powerful in the world, which enables muon and neutron scattering science to probe the structure and properties of matter, from the... Diamond Light Source is a synchrotron research facility located on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England. ... Synchrotrons are now mostly used for producing monochromatic high intensity X-ray beams; here, the synchrotron is the circular track, off which the beamlines branch. ...

See also

• Atomic Energy Research Establishment
• JET

The Atomic Energy Research Establishment near Harwell, Oxfordshire was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s. ... Split image of JET with right side showing hot plasma during a shot. ...

External links

• Science and Technology Facilities Council
• ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source
• Diamond Light Source synchrotron
• Central Laser Facility
• Computing at Chilton: 1961-1990
• Microelectronics Support Centre
• EUROPRACTICE Software Service

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