Two-Stage Light-Gas Gun Facility Shock Hydrodynamics

Gas-Gun Facility is a 20-meter-long hypervelocity gun that hurls a projectile disk into a heavily-instrumented target area at speeds of up to 8 Km/sec (18,000 mph), for measuring shock-impact and Equation-of-State (EOS) parameters at temperatures to 4500 K and pressures beyond a million atmospheres in a wide variety of sample materials.

100 MeV Electron-Positron Linear Accelerator

The 100 MeV LINAC Facility is an RF electron linear-accelerator complex used for  studies of phenomena that occur when its 100 MeV electron bunches strike bulk matter, or when these relativistic e^- bunches interact with an intense femtosecond laser pulse, or when an intense ultrashort pulse laser is focussed onto solid or gas targets.  The LINAC has also been retrofitted to generate an intense beam of low-energy (0.5 - 50 KeV) positrons for materials physics studies of microvoids in  condensed matter systems.