News tagged with ray sources

SLAC X-ray laser used to probe biomolecules to individual atoms

An international team led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How to make a splash

(Phys.org) -- A team of physicists has used the high-energy x-rays of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to penetrate the everyday mystery of a splash, revealing previously hidden ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How nitric acid overcame its fear of water with a little help from its friends

Whether it is a pond or raindrop, when a common nitrogen-containing acid encounters water's surface, it typically falls apart, dissociating into two charged particles. Except, sometimes it is able to hold ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making sharper X-rays

A variety of imaging technologies rely on light with short wavelengths because it allows very small structures to be resolved. However, light sources which produce short, extreme ultraviolet or x-ray wavelengths ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Spin-orbit sum rule to speed up X-ray scattering research

A new theory developed by Prof Gerrit van der Laan, from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Diamond Light Source, and published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, provid ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices

(PhysOrg.com) -- When gold vanishes from a very important location, it usually means trouble. At the nanoscale, however, it could provide more knowledge about certain types of materials. A recent discovery ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First atomic X-ray laser created

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The road to ultrahigh-resolution X-ray spectrometers

Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electron accelerator scientists report breakthroughs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have surpassed two major scientific milestones toward proving the technology of a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

600 mysteries in the night sky

NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No one knows ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Tools of the trade: Diamonds are forever ... for focusing intense X-rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Faster 3D nanoimaging a possibility with full colour synchrotron light

Researchers can now see objects more precisely and faster at the nanoscale due to utilising the full colour spectrum of synchrotron light, opening the way for faster 3D nanoimaging.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First X-ray lasing of SACLA

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a first beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms. This light was created using SACLA, a cutting-edge X-ray ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

SACLA X-ray free electron laser sets new record

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms, the shortest ever measured. This record-breaking light was created ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast