Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä

The JYFL-ACCLAB has been an EU large scale facility since 1996 and an Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence since 2001. It has a national mission as a centre of expertise and education in accelerator technology and use of radiation. The laboratory works in close cooperation with the Helsinki Institute of Physics and is responsible for a significant portion of Finland’s contribution to CERN, FAIR and ESA projects. The laboratory is one of the large EU-funded infrastructures open to researchers. Several Finnish and international companies and research facilities conduct radiation hardness tests at the laboratory’s RADEF facility, which is accredited by the European Space Agency. The RADEF facility is also used for applied research in materials physics focused on ion-material interactions.