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:: 06 November, 2007
As construction continues on the experimental halls that will receive the beam from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the instruments that...
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:: 05 November, 2007
About 200 scientists are in Washington this weekend to discuss the next steps toward converting the Homestake gold mine into a national underground...
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:: 29 October, 2007
The Nobel Laureate in Physics introduced his mind-boggling subject in a way that cats and dogs could understand, with a cartoon from the New...
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:: 26 October, 2007
Much like SLAC, the American high energy physics program is in a state of transition. With the shutdown of the SLAC's B-factory late next year and...
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:: 25 October, 2007
A famous character once said, "Life is like a box of chocolates… You never know what you're gonna get." In particle physics, we do not follow this...
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:: 25 October, 2007
Data collections at SLAC aren't just pretty big—the experts call them "Extremely Large Databases." BaBar's two petabytes of data will seem paltry...
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:: 25 October, 2007
Physicists have taken a snapshot of an elusive neutrino, in research that could one day explain why some of the universe's mass seems to be...
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:: 25 October, 2007
Ernest Rutherford used to tell his physics students that if they couldn't explain a concept to a barmaid, they didn't really understand the...
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:: 25 October, 2007
Lots of people doodle—a stick figure in the margins of a notepad or maybe a geometric design in the corner of a lab notebook—but SLAC engineer...
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:: 24 October, 2007
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) project is a collaboration that brings together components and equipment from dozens of suppliers. Last...
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:: 23 October, 2007
The circulating beams will store an unprecedented amount of energy when the LHC is in operation. If even a small fraction of this beam deviates...
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:: 23 October, 2007
The first phase of commissioning BEPCII, the major upgrade of the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPC) came to a successful conclusion on 3...
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:: 22 October, 2007
the Large Area Telescope (LAT) Project awarded certificates of appreciation to the 58 members of the LAT Environmental Test team, on behalf of the...
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:: 05 October, 2007
A steady push during the course of eight years, the PEP-II accelerator has now delivered double the amount of data originally expected when the
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:: 24 September, 2007
Imagine: A pleasant, but flustered gentleman says he's late for a lecture and needs to print a copy of his presentation. He asks you to print it...
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:: 14 September, 2007
Janet MacKay-Galbraith hopes that one word can capture the spirit of this year's Fermilab Arts Series: Wow.
This season's line-up features...
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:: 13 September, 2007
Scientific Information Port (PIC), a technological centre located on the campus of the UAB, started work on the first stage of the European project...
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:: 05 September, 2007
A notable up-tick in tunneling activity occurred at the end of August as construction teams opened a third tunnel port behind the Collider Hall...
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:: 31 August, 2007
At Texas A&M University, a team led by Peter McIntyre has developed a new design for superconducting cavities for linear colliders, perhaps even...
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:: 14 August, 2007
The Klystron Microwave Department has finished fabricating the first warm "L-Band" accelerator structure to fill a unique niche in the...
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