Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory

Established	1965 (1965)
Research type	Nuclear Physics
Director	Arthur Champagne
Staff	100
Location	Durham, North Carolina, United States
Campus	TUNL is located on Duke University's West Campus
Operating agency	Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University
Website	www.tunl.duke.edu

The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, abbreviated as TUNL (pronounced as "tunnel"), is a tripartite research consortium operated by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University. The laboratory is located on the West Campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Researchers are now drawn from several other universities around the United States in addition to members from the founding universities.^[1] TUNL also participates in long term collaborations with universities and laboratories around the world.^[2] Funding for TUNL comes primarily from the United States Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics.^[3]

TUNL operates three laboratory facilities, all of which reside on Duke University's campus. Two of the facilities, the Tandem Accelerator Laboratory and the Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, are low energy charged beam accelerators.^[4] The third facility is the High Intensity Gamma-Ray Source (HIGS), which produces the highest intensity polarized Gamma ray beams in the world.^[5] TUNL is also involved in off-site research projects, including the Majorana Demonstrator Experiment, an ongoing Double beta decay experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota.^[2]