PREFACE
The CAARI 2002: Seventeenth International
Conference on the Application of Accelerators in
Research and Industry was held on the campus of the
University of North Texas November 12-16, 2002.
The major sponsors of the conference were the
National Science Foundation, The U.S. Department of
Energy and the University of North Texas. The
conference is a topical conference of the American
Physical Society sponsored through the Division of
Nuclear Physics.
An Industrial Exhibit Show
composed of 40 companies that have products of
interest to the accelerator community was held in
parallel to the conference for the first two days.
Approximately 800 accelerator scientists from 50
countries attended the conference. There were 508
invited papers that were distributed in 86 each, fourhour sessions. There was a poster session Friday night
with 60 posters on display. The conference opened
with four plenary speakers: T. Fastermann from the
Technical University of Muenchen who discussed
Interdisciplinary Research at the Muenchen Tandem.
The next speaker was T. Huthwelker from (SUNY)
Albany. In the talk an overview was given on how
RBS can be used to help assay global warming
problems. Next was D. Ackermann from GSI who
gave an excellent presentation on the Synthesis of
Super Heavy Elements. The final plenary speaker was
Peter Sigmund who gave us the latest work on the
Binary Theory of Electronic Stopping.
and posters covered such topics as: Ion Implantation,
(30 papers in these proceedings) Radiation Processing,
Targetry, Detectors and Spectrometers, Energy Loss,
Clusters, Free Electron Lasers and Non Destructive
Analysis. In addition to the sessions mentioned above,
we organized and conducted a Medical Symposium in
parallel with the conference.
This symposium
consisted of 7, four-hour sessions on the production
and use of Medical Radioisotopes. The sessions were
composed of 50 speakers, who are probably some of
the best in the world on the subject matter covered. 20
medical papers appear in these proceedings.
The editors would like to thank the major
sponsoring agencies, namely: The United States
Department of Energy, The National Science
Foundation and University of North Texas for their
continuing support of this conference series. Thanks
are also due to the industrial sponsors. They not only
helped financially but also provided two complete
days of industrial exhibits that added greatly to the
total conference experience that each participant
enjoyed. We are also indebted to the program and
advisory committees for the excellent slate of invited
speakers whose presentations were given at the
conference. Our gratitude also goes out to the 90
session chairpersons and co-chairpersons who not only
helped to organize many of the sessions but also
conducted the sessions at the conference. The editors
now have about 500 referees that can be called on to
help with the refereeing of the papers. We wish to
especially thank the individuals that helped us referee
papers for these proceedings. With faxes, email and
overnight mail we accomplished this task rapidly with
the outstanding contribution of these referees.
As has been the case in most of our previous
conferences, Accelerator Based Atomic Physics had
the most sessions. There were 14 sessions that dealt
directly with Atomic Physics. 50 papers in Atomic
Physics are published in these proceedings. There
were also 13 poster papers that dealt with Accelerator
Based Atomic Physics. There were 6 sessions and 9
poster papers that dealt generally with Accelerator
Technology. These papers covered such topics as
New Accelerators, Beam Handling Systems, Ion
Sources, Detectors, Spectrometers, Magnets, Control
Programs, etc. Radioactive Beams and Nuclear
Physics were the topics for 8 sessions which were very
well attended. 28 papers on Nuclear Physics appear in
these proceedings. There were 14 sessions and 24
posters that dealt generally with ion beam analysis.
These papers covered such topics as: Rutherford
Backscattering Analysis, Particle Induced X-Ray
Emission, Elastic Recoil Detectors, Nuclear Reaction
Analysis, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and
Activation Analysis. Thirty-seven papers on IBA are
published in these proceedings. Additional sessions
We wish to thank the administrative staff, students
and professors at the University of North Texas for the
monumental effort of helping us put the conference
together and following through with the final
publication of these proceedings.
The person, without question, who did the
administrative work, compiled the information, and
our website for the conference, was Margaret Hall.
Margaret was particularly interested in seeing to it that
the participants were wined and dined and generally
had a good time in Denton. From the participant point
of view that is an admirable goal. We also wish to
thank Andrea Hall, Courtney Molchan and Victor
Breton. We wish to thank all of the physics graduate
students for helping with the slide projectors.
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We are indebted to Jonathan Reynolds of the UNT
Center for Media Production, who took all of the
pictures that appear in the proceedings.
UNT in 1974. It is not easy to bring 800 visitors onto
a campus during the fall semester and provide
classrooms, etc. for the meeting. Without the total
support of the University, this would not be possible.
Finally we wish to thank the UNT administration
and faculty for the support that has been given this
conference series since the first time it was held at
The next conference in this series will take place on
the campus of UNT in Fall 2004.
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