Progress report 1982-1983 department of physics

Abstract

Both 1982 and 1983 have been very particular years for our country and the important events occurred in it have necessarily had an impact on our Physics Department. The increasing economic difficulties, particularly in the foreign commerce, aggravated by the conflict in the South Atlantic, significantly affected the TANDAR Proyect, since it was still in an execution stage. Nevertheless, during 1982 the local works could be concluded making it possible to perfora, in April 1983, the voltage tests. During the tests the interesting valué of 24.7 MV at the terminal was reached and that result could be announced to the International Conference on Electrostatics Accelerators taking place at that time at Daresbury, England. Immediately after, the acceleration tubes were assembled and vacuum tested. Some difficulties appeared with components of the pumping stations, in particular regarding the sublimation pumps. At the same time several repairs and improvements were accomplished on equipment located at the terminal, such as the charge selector, and also strong progress was obtained in the installation of the control system.