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American-made superconducting radiofrequency cavity makes the grade

The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility marked a step forward in the field of advanced particle accelerator technology with the successful test of the first U.S.-built superconducting ...

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Having outlasted all expectations of its service life, the original mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy Office of Science's record-setting neutron science facility ...

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created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam

(PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During ...

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Lower energy could lead to more biological imaging at LCLS

While SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source was designed to push the limits as a high-energy X-ray laser, users' requests have led staff at the facility to successfully step it back to a lower minimum energy ...

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created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

SLAC's newest facility kicks off user run

(Phys.org) -- After months of installation and commissioning efforts, SLAC's newest user facility welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday. They came to use the tightly focused electron bunches ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New National Synchrotron Light Source II construction more than 70 percent complete

(Phys.org) -- Construction of the $912-million National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory is more than 70 percent complete – ...

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created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Physicists turn to Maxwell’s equations for self-bending light

(Phys.org) -- Can light self-bend into an arc? Can shape-preserving optical beams truly bend along a circular path? A confident answer emerged in this week’s Physical Review Letters. Researchers at Israel’s Techni ...

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created Apr 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 27 | with audio podcast weblog

Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Not from gamma-ray bursts, says IceCube study

The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precisely track ...

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created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

APEX: At the forefront of what's needed for the next generation of light sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- The focus of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Photon Injector Experiment, APEX, is an extraordinary electron gun specially designed for the front end of superconducting accelerators. When it’s ...

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Image or mirror image? Chiral recognition by femtosecond laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not always easy to distinguish between images and mirror images of molecules, but this knowledge is important when one image of a molecule is a drug and the mirror image is toxic. One ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SLAC, Stanford team focuses on high-energy electrons to treat cancer

Accelerator physicists at SLAC and cancer specialists from Stanford are working on a new technology that could dramatically reduce the time needed for cancer radiation treatments. The team ran an initial experiment ...

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers at SLAC test collider closer to creating fully coherent X-rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many advanced laser technologies, such as laser spectroscopy, that use precise wavelengths of infrared, visible or ultraviolet laser light could benefit from using X-ray light as well. But ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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