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New Life for Linac
Nov 26, 2007 |
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After years of planning and hard work involving teams from every corner of the lab, SLAC's venerable linac has undergone the most radical set of alterations in its 40+ year career. Although a handful of minor ...
NPL unveils new equipment to make cancer treatment safer
Nov 14, 2008 |
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A new piece of medical technology unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) today will help improve the success rates of radiotherapy cancer treatments. The new clinical electron linear accelerator (linac) will help ...
Forum features update on next-generation particle accelerator
Aug 08, 2008 |
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The particle accelerator known as the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) -- now in planning stages at Cornell -- would open doors to new research in fields from materials science to biochemistry, said Georg Hoffstaetter in a lecture ...
Argonne scientists reach milestone in accelerator upgrade project
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have successfully stopped and then reaccelerated a stable ion through a newly constructed charge-breeder, bringing the CAlifornium Rare Isotope ...
Science Begins at the World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser (w/ Video)
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. ...
Have Gun, Will Travel (at Light Speed)
Jan 25, 2007 |
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The front third of the linac is undergoing an extreme makeover, metamorphosing into a first-of-its-kind hard x-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). But even with the engineering ...
ANITA is Back in Business
Nov 08, 2007 |
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The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Array (ANITA)—that plucky probe that visited SLAC last year before taking to the skies of Antarctica—is back in action.
A Bunch of Electron Chicanery
Nov 21, 2006 |
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As the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) takes shape over the next few years, one of the key issues occupying the minds of physicists is controlling the size and shape of the electron pulses used to generate ...
Free Electron Lasers and You: An LCLS Primer
Dec 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a few short months, the Linac Coherent Light Source will start operation as the world's first hard X-ray free electron laser, pushing SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to the frontier ...
Laser Acceleration of Electrons Excites Physicists
Apr 20, 2007 |
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A new experiment aims to accelerate electrons using dark red light.
'Cold linac' commissioning major step for ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source
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Aug 19, 2005 |
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The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has met a crucial milestone on its way to completion in June 2006 -- operation of the superconducting section of its linear accelerator. ...
World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves 'First Light'
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's brightest X-ray source sprang to life last week at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) offers researchers ...
Brightest X-ray Vision at the Nano-scale
Jun 09, 2008 |
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Technology-development studies at Cornell University and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination of everything from human proteins ...
First Test of New X-ray Laser Strips Neon Bare
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes a lot of energy to strip all ten electrons from an atom of neon. Doing it from the inside out, knocking away the most-closely-held, innermost electrons first, is an even rarer feat. ...
First neutrons produced by DOE's Spallation Neutron Source
May 01, 2006 |
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One of the largest and most anticipated U.S. science construction projects of the past several decades has passed its most significant performance test. The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, ...
