Plasma accelerators, part two: High quality, even by the slice
In Wim Leemans’ lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sits one of the world’s most advanced R&D accelerators. By pushing electrons forward on the crest of plasma waves, the accelerator is capable of accelerating electron bunches from an ... Continue reading
Plasma accelerators: Finding focus
Seeking less costly, more efficient means of particle acceleration, physicists are developing new types of machines that zip particles to high energies in short distances. One promising method harnesses the power of plasma, accelerating electron bunche... Continue reading
SLAC gets a new director
SLAC has a new director: X-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao. Kao currently serves as Associate Laboratory Director for SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and Acting Associate Laboratory Director for the lab's Photon Science directorate. He wi... Continue reading
Gravitational waves
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but scientists have yet to observe them directly. Continue reading
Learning to play the dark matter boogie
Scientists from the groups of professors Risa Wechsler and Tom Abel at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, an institute run jointly by Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, are busily crafting enough com... Continue reading
Angry Birds to teach particle physics
CERN and Angry Birds-creator Rovio announced last Friday that they will team up to produce a learning program for children between 3 and 8 years old.
The partnership will focus on the Angry Birds Playground brand, which is designed to make learning abo... Continue reading
Bringing the universe into full focus
In a darkened barn in Sweden in 1941, astronomer Erik Holmberg constructed two identical sets of 37 lightbulbs, arranged in rings, to study the effects of a close encounter by two passing galaxies.
Using a light sensor connected to a device that measur... Continue reading
A summer of (physics) code
Anyone in the world with a computer can contribute to research at CERN. Through the LHC@Home project, volunteers can offer up spare computing power to simulate and process collisions happening inside the Large Hadron Collider.
CERN recently improved th... Continue reading
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