Applied radiation research around a 15 MeV high-average-power linac

The Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics of the University Gent is equipped with a 15 MeV 20 kW linear electron accelerator (linac) facility. In its present configuration the accelerator is used as a multipurpose app aratus for research in the fields of polymer chemistry, biomedical material s, medicine, food technology, dosimetry, solid state physics, agriculture a nd nuclear and radiation physics. We present an overview of both the variou s research projects around our linac facility involving radiation chemistry and physics and the specialised technologies facilitating this research. ( C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.