Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab)

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, commonly known and reffered to as Jefferson Lab, is a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory. It houses the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and the 12 GeV CLAS12 detector and includes four experimental halls: Hall A, Hall B, Hall C, and Hall D.



History
The Department of Energy granted initial funding for the lab's research on August 3, 1984. The U.S. Congress then appropriated funds for construction of the lab in October 1986.

Hall C was the first experimental hall to begin operating in 1994, when the first beam was delivered to Hall C. Hall A and Hall B began operating in 1997.

JLab's CEBAF Center achieved an energy of 6 GeV in 2000. JLab began work on the 12 GeV upgrade in 2003.

Links/Sources
Jefferson Lab YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/JeffersonLab

JLab History: http://www.jlab.org/visitors/history/

JLab Homepage: http://www.jlab.org/