Cross-sectional Presentation and Basic Operational Principles of 3MV Van de Graaff Accelerator at Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka

In 1964, a positive ion horizontal type Van de Graaff accelerator (KN3000) was installed at Atomic Energy Center, Dhaka (AECD). This accelerator was manufactured by the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, Burlington, Mass., USA. Van de Graaff accelerator consists of a number of operating parts related each other. This accelerator can produce and accelerate 3 MeV proton beam using Hydrogen, Helium, and Deuterium ion source gas. Ion Beam Analytical (IBA) techniques Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and Proton Induced Gamma Emission (PIGE) are used for data acquisition.