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- Winning Protons - Simona Malace has been named the winner of the 2010 JSA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship by the Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors.
- Dressed for Success - Two ILC-type cavities processed at JLab and "dressed" in a helium vessel at Fermilab have been sent to KEK in Japan to be installed in a test ILC-style cryomodule. They'll join cavities from Germany's DESY to make a four-cavity test module. This module will in turn join another four-cavity module produced by KEK. The completed module will serve as a prototype of the ILC main linac system. Other labs that contributed to this endeavor include Argonne National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Cornell University and INFN. Read the full article on symmetrybreaking.
- FY09 Report Card - The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science has issued its annual report card for Jefferson Lab. The annual report card evaluates the lab's scientific, technological, management and operational performance. You can see the FY09 report card here.
- Nanotube Yarn - Lasers were used to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron-nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor, according to a just-published study.
- Proton's Pals - A recent experiment at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
- Accelerator Ace - Jean R. Delayen, has been named the first director of the Center for Accelerator Science, which was created in 2008 by ODU and Jefferson Lab. Delayen is a principal scientist in the accelerator division at Jefferson Lab and professor of accelerator physics at Old Dominion University.
- First Beam! - The Free-Electron Laser successfully transported an electron beam through its new ultraviolet beamline for the first time late Wednesday, October 28. The machine is now just months away from emitting its first powerful beams of ultraviolet laser light.
- Award-Winning Connections - Two physicists with colleagues at Jefferson Lab have won the 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics. Steven Pieper and Robert Wiringa, senior scientists at Argonne National Lab, won the prize for developing and applying models of nuclear forces and methods to calculate the properties of light nuclei. Some of these models were developed with Rocco Schiavilla and are being used here at Jefferson Lab.
- One Megawatt - The Spallation Neutron Source, which contains 23 cryomodules built at Jefferson Lab, has achieved 1 MW of beam power in routine neutron production operation. The first pulsed spallation neutron source to break the one-megawatt barrier, research conducted at the SNS is expected to lay the groundwork for the next generation of materials research.
- Teaming Up - Philips Healthcare has signed an agreement with Dilon Diagnostics to sell and support the Dilon 6800 gamma camera in key European and Middle Eastern markets. The compact camera technology, built with high-resolution gamma imaging technology licensed from Jefferson Lab, and related products and services are used for the detection of breast cancer as an adjunct to mammography.
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Taking Shape - Construction crews have begun pouring the foundation for the new Hall D complex, Jefferson Lab's newest and fourth experimental hall. Hall D is a critical part of the laboratory's $310 million 12 GeV Upgrade project, which will double the energy of the lab's electron beam accelerator and provide scientists with an unprecedented tool for studying the nucleus of the atom. (Photos: Greg Adams)
