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Apr 12 | News
Sarah Phillips wants to join a select few individual who can claim to be the first to see a new state of matter. A recipient of a grant at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, she is building a piece of equipment to find a predicted, but never-before-seen state of matter called true muonium. It is a rare atom made from two muon particles, which are similar to electrons.
Mar 1 | News
When most of us think of an atom, we think of tiny electrons whizzing around a stationary, dense nucleus composed of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons. A collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has demonstrated just how different reality is from our simple picture.
11/16/2011 | News
In
terms of emissions, just one pound of sulfur hexafluoride, a nontoxic
gas used in electric insulation, is equivalent to about 11 tons of
carbon dioxide. Energy Department experts are hunting down this and
other fugitive carbon emissions and have already prevented the release
of 600,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent.
7/6/2011 | News
Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state is restoring its
computer system this week after a cyberattack that also targetted
Battelle's corporate offices in Ohio and Thomas Jefferson National
Laboratory in Virginia. Officials say they know the source and motive,
but are not sharing that information yet.
6/1/2011 | News
The
uses for accelerators are growing, but the traditional material for
building components is pure, superconducting niobium, which can push
costs skyward and still experiences thermal breakdown. Jefferson Lab
engineers are now working on cheaper sputter-deposited layers of niobium
and copper to eliminate heat-collecting defects and lower cost without
hurting performance.
2/15/2011 | News
Analysis
of the $3.8 trillion proposed budget is beginning to flow, and early
reports of its impact on research and innovation is positive, at least
from the perspective of scientists. The president placed priorities on
energy and medical research, which explains why standout winners in the
budget plan include the National Institutes of Health, the National
Science Foundation, and U.S. Dept of Energy.
2/8/2011 | News
A study of bound protons and neutrons conducted at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has allowed scientists, for the first time, to extract information through experimentation about the internal structure of free neutrons, without the assistance of a theoretical model.
9/13/2010 | News
Reflecting
the fortunes of a struggling economy, government R&D funding for
2011 is expected to slip about three-tenths of one percent from 2010
levels. The big news from the proposed package, however, is a marked
fall in defense R&D: 6.6%. As a result, non-defense R&D could rise by several percentage points.
12/3/2009 | News
Researchers have used lasers 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. The researchers created a new technique to synthesize high-quality boron-nitride nanotubes (BNNTs).
9/17/2009 | News
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility marked a step forward in the field of advanced particle accelerator technology with the successful test of the first U.S.-built superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) niobium cavity to meet the exacting specifications of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC).
