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The home office is located 60 miles east of New York City near the Brookhaven
National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.
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BTG is a member of The United States Industry Coalition, Inc. (USIC), a
non-profit association of U.S. companies and universities dedicated to the
nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction through commercialization of
technologies for peaceful purposes.
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Advanced Accelerator Research and Development:
BTG is focused on providing technology leadership in
accelerator-based active y-interrogation for explosives detection for homeland
security.
We are designing and building a system which directly and unambiguously
identifies explosives, special nuclear materials and other chemically distinct
substances. To support this effort, we also develop and fabricate critical
components for tandem accelerators: e.g., Negative Ion Sources and a
Laser-Excited Pulsed Electron Gun .
BTG Accelerator Projects:
Deployable Energy Systems:
BTG is involved in a series of projects developing new energy storage
technologies for defense and civilian applications.
Our primary projects
concentrate on isomer energy storage systems; the most efficient direct energy conversion from nuclear energy;
and nanoparticle energy storage systems based on the surface-tension energy of
nano-particles.
BTG Deployable Energy Projects:
3-D Simulations of Fast-Pulsed Lasers
In our new project, we are applying our proprietary multi-dimensional (2D and 3D)
relativistic, fully implicit, massively parallel Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code
MANDOR to investigate laser-pulse interaction with plasma and the resulting
generation of the high order harmonics, plasma-emitted X-rays and particle
(electron, ion and neutron) beams.
BTG Simulation Projects:
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BTG News
June 22, 2006
Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc., was awarded a new Phase I SBIR grant to develop an advanced surface plasma source for reliable long time production of H¯/D¯ beams with high brightness and high pulsed current and average intensity up to ~20mA. The principal goal of this project is to develop a high performance, long lifetime surface plasma H¯ source by using a unique new highly efficient helicon discharge plasma generator. The plasma flux formed by this helicon discharge will be used for surface plasma generation of H¯.
In Phase I, simulations of plasma generation, ion/atom conversion, and H¯/D¯ surface-plasma generation will be carried out to prove the feasibility of this new approach. The discharge system will be studied, beam extraction and formation including electron suppression will be designed, and computer simulated.
This is the third Phase I SBIR awarded to BTG for development of negative ion source technology. In previous years the company received Phase I and Phase II funding to design, build, and test a high brightness, long lived source of heavy negative ions (HNIS). This source is now available for commercialization. More information about the HNIS is available on this website.
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