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Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

New analytical tools coming on line at the Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's state-of-the-art neutron science facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, include a beam line dedicated to ...





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Particles are back in the LHC

Particles are back in the LHC

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 2

During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.


ILC's High-Energy Collisions Require Accurate Energy Measurements

ILC's High-Energy Collisions Require Accurate Energy Measurements

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 03, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The International Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration proposes to crash electron and positron beams together with a total energy of 500 GeV (billion electron volts). The actual energy of each beam will vary ...


Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


Clearing Electron Clouds

Clearing Electron Clouds

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 02, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Clouds might be welcome during a drought, but you definitely don't want them in your beam pipes. Researchers around the world are working out how to keep a section of the proposed International Linear Collider—the ...


Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Physics / General Physics

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

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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Spallation Neutron Source first of its kind to reach megawatt power (w/ Podcast)

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), already the world's most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source ...


World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves 'First Light'

World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves 'First Light'

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(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 ...


Low-Alpha Mode Increases Possibilities at SSRL

Low-Alpha Mode Increases Possibilities at SSRL

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Since the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) began experiments in 1973, it has proven to be a bottomless well of scientific discovery. Now, a team of SLAC accelerator physicists is working to ...


The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways

The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 8

Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner ...


Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.



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