Brookhaven National Laboratory chooses SAES~® Getters' new NEG thin-film technology to coat the RHIC machine

摘要

Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island, NY has chosen IntegraTorr™, SAES Getters'' new non-evaporable getter (NEG) thin-film technology for ultra-high vacuum pumping, to coat 108 vacuum chambers of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) machine. The world-class scientific research facility attracts about 1,000 physicists each year from around the world who gather at RHIC to investigate what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC drives two intersecting beams of gold ions traveling at 99.995% the speed of light head-on to create subatomic collisions, which cause the matter to heat to more than a billion times the temperature of the sun. Phenomena originating from these heavy ion collisions help scientists study the fundamental properties of the basic building blocks of matter, deepening understanding about the laws of the physical world, from the smallest subatomic particles to the largest stars.