Synchrotrons

"It's a tale as old as time: Boy meets particle accelerator. Boy gets particle accelerator. Particle accelerator trash talks boy when boy's favorite football team wins last year's Super Bowl." Alverno Presents is offering up "Sexy Results, "a rather unusual Cedar Block event at Turner Hall Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 18. It's a sweet story of science and art.  

Todd Johnson's Shockfossils are "multimillion volt Lichtenberg figures in acrylic." He masks acrylic slabs with lead and then rents time on a commercial particle accelerator and the result are beautiful, fern-like fractals. Shockfossils on deviantART  

In this month's Physics World, reviews and careers editor, Margaret Harris, visits the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) to explore what future projects are in the pipeline now that the Tevatron particle accelerator has closed for good.  

The Tevatron, a particle accelerator based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, shut down on September 30. The machine was 28. The cause of death was the bigger, more powerful Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland...  

Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The  new   papers  boost the case for December’s announcement of a possible Higgs signal , but let’s not get too excited. [More]  

Want to hang out with the people who run the CMS? No, not the content management system. The Compact Muon Solenoid. It's one of the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world. CERN physicist Dr. Albert De Roeck is hosting a Google+ Hangout tomorrow from inside the cavern where the experiment takes place, about 100 meters underneath Cessy, France. He'll explain the CMS...  

TOKAI, Japan, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Scientists in Japan say a particle accelerator damaged in the March 2011 earthquake is repaired and ready to resume research operations. Located in Tokai, about 60 miles south of the hard-hit city of Sendai, the accelerator...  

Unless you have a particle accelerator, the type of Lichtenberg figure that you would make yourself probably would be a two-dimensional surface pattern rather than a three-dimensional pattern you would see illuminated by LEDs or sometimes forming a dark tree inside the plastic. An LED can illuminate the space formed in a dielectric when the particle beam exceeds the dielectric strength of a material, basically allowing the particles to force a...  

A first-of-a-kind reactor system has been set up in Belgium by coupling a subcritical assembly with a particle accelerator. The work is a major step in a program to research advanced waste management.The equipment, known as Guinevere, is a demonstration model that supports the project for a larger version that will be called Myrrha (Multipurpose Hybrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications). It was assembled by France's National Centre...  

Image: CERN The news media were abuzz this week with reports of experiments conducted at the Gran Sasso particle detector complex in Italy, apparently showing subatomic particles called neutrinos had traveled from the giant particle accelerator at CERN ...  

A SCHOOL is being encouraged by the UK's top scientific body to bring cutting-edge science into the classroom. The project will involve pupils from Trinity Catholic School building a model of a particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider in ...  

It's a simple, elegant idea that solves some of physics's biggest mysteries. There's only one tiny problem. It's complete nonsense. This is the story of that bizarre thought experiment and John Archibald Wheeler, the brilliant, largely unsung physicist who ...  

A Palm Beach radiation oncology group announced Monday it would buy Mevion's smaller-footprint synchrotron to install in a new proton therapy center. South Florida Radiation Oncology LLC, which runs eight radiation therapy centers in southern Florida, said ...  

In general, these three signals are at the core of how an automated electron beam instrument locates and identifies particles. The majority of automation is, however, carried out using the BSE detector (BSED) signals. As a result, the user ...  

The NYT is right about this: you want to sell or kill a policy these days, it’s mandatory to attach the words “jobs creator” or “jobs killer” to it. I’ve played along—always in good faith—I never asserted numbers I didn’t ...