Latest news from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on Newswise en-us Copyright 2024 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/forging-a-mathematical-path-to-hybrid-mesons/?sc=rsin /articles/forging-a-mathematical-path-to-hybrid-mesons/?sc=rsin Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:45:22 EST New 2024 American Physical Society Fellow Jozef Dudek is pursuing theoretical descriptions of exotic hadrons, a yet-untallied group of short-lived subatomic cousins of the proton and neutron, those more familiar atomic building blocks. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/bridging-the-gap-between-physics-and-computing/?sc=rsin /articles/bridging-the-gap-between-physics-and-computing/?sc=rsin Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:30:41 EST Jefferson Lab's Experimental Physics Software and Computing Infrastructure (EPSCI) group develops centralized computing software that can be shared by any of the lab's experimental halls and used for future projects. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/honoring-a-career-of-outstanding-achievement/?sc=rsin /articles/honoring-a-career-of-outstanding-achievement/?sc=rsin Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:00:24 EST This year, the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding to probe the secrets of the subatomic universe. And for 39 of those years, esteemed physicist Volker D. Burkert has been an important part of its mission. Now, Burkert is being honored for his contributions to advancements in experimental physics with the prestigious Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. The citation reads: "For exemplary leadership in the development of high-performance instrumentation for large acceptance spectrometers that have enabled breakthroughs in fundamental nuclear physics through electroproduction measurements of exclusive processes." Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/jefferson-lab-physicists-named-aps-fellows/?sc=rsin /articles/jefferson-lab-physicists-named-aps-fellows/?sc=rsin Mon, 07 Oct 2024 08:00:11 EST Four Jefferson Lab staff members have been named 2024 American Physical Society Fellows. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/harnessing-protons-to-treat-cancer/?sc=rsin /articles/harnessing-protons-to-treat-cancer/?sc=rsin Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:05:52 EST Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innovation Center (BRIC) at Jefferson Lab are launching a study into how best to advance safer types of radiation therapy. BRIC scientists plan to evaluate the ability of accelerator-based proton therapy to replace radioactive isotope-derived treatments. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/kate-petersen-mace-selected-as-high-performance-data-facility-project-director/?sc=rsin /articles/kate-petersen-mace-selected-as-high-performance-data-facility-project-director/?sc=rsin Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:00:26 EST The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility announced today that Kate Petersen Mace has been named the project director for the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) a first-of-its-kind project that will provide resources for data-intensive science. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/california-streamin-jefferson-lab-esnet-achieve-coast-to-coast-feed-of-real-time-physics-data/?sc=rsin /articles/california-streamin-jefferson-lab-esnet-achieve-coast-to-coast-feed-of-real-time-physics-data/?sc=rsin Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:05:13 EST The test represented the culmination of nearly three years of collaboration between Jefferson Lab and ESnet to develop a novel networking hardware prototype that can connect scientific instruments to computing clusters over a wide-area network such as ESnet's in real time. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/mapping-out-matter-s-building-blocks-in-3d/?sc=rsin /articles/mapping-out-matter-s-building-blocks-in-3d/?sc=rsin Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:30:00 EST Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom's nucleus -- particles called hadrons that most of us would recognize as protons and neutrons -- are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons. The HadStruc collaboration has now come together to map out these partons and disentangle how they interact to form hadrons. Their latest findings were recently published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/rolling-in-the-deep-norfolk-street-flooding-predicted-in-seconds-with-machine-learning-models/?sc=rsin /articles/rolling-in-the-deep-norfolk-street-flooding-predicted-in-seconds-with-machine-learning-models/?sc=rsin Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:05:29 EST Scientists from Jefferson Lab, Old Dominion University and the University of Virginia recently conducted a study that compares deep learning models of street-scale flooding in the City of Norfolk with previous machine learning and physics-based simulations. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/postdoc-takes-multipronged-approach-to-muon-detection/?sc=rsin /articles/postdoc-takes-multipronged-approach-to-muon-detection/?sc=rsin Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:05:13 EST 2024 JSA Postdoctoral Prize Winner Debaditya Biswas will combine different particle identification methods with machine learning to detect muons hidden in a sea of pions. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/cryomodule-assembly-technicians-rev-up-jefferson-lab-s-electron-beam-racetrack/?sc=rsin /articles/cryomodule-assembly-technicians-rev-up-jefferson-lab-s-electron-beam-racetrack/?sc=rsin Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:00:09 EST This article features the Jefferson Lab SRF Operations Department's cryomodule assembly technicians, a team of master craftsmen who build, test and install cryomodules in particle accelerators. Their work enables scientific discoveries at Jefferson Lab and beyond. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/microwave-popcorn-to-particle-accelerators-magnetrons-show-promise-as-radiofrequency-source/?sc=rsin /articles/microwave-popcorn-to-particle-accelerators-magnetrons-show-promise-as-radiofrequency-source/?sc=rsin Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:45:18 EST Building on nearly 15 years of research, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are exploring magnetrons as the drivers of modern particle accelerators. This could lower the carbon footprint of these energy-hungry machines and help them benefit society far beyond the realm of scientific research. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/chasing-and-counting-mesons/?sc=rsin /articles/chasing-and-counting-mesons/?sc=rsin Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:05:09 EST Karthik Suresh's doctoral dissertation on meson decay in the ongoing GlueX Collaboration at Jefferson Lab has just earned the prestigious 2023 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/pooling-skills-to-study-a-slippery-particle/?sc=rsin /articles/pooling-skills-to-study-a-slippery-particle/?sc=rsin Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:05:59 EST A combination of supercomputing and traditional techniques has allowed Jefferson Lab theorists to better describe the unstable sigma meson particle, contributing to our comprehension of the strong interaction. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/oxygen-tweaking-may-be-key-to-accelerator-optimization/?sc=rsin /articles/oxygen-tweaking-may-be-key-to-accelerator-optimization/?sc=rsin Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:05:04 EST Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are exploring how adding oxygen to the surfaces of particle accelerator cavities, one of the most critical parts of an accelerator, can help scientists custom-tailor their properties for maximum efficiency and minimum cost. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/new-director-appointed-to-lead-u-s-department-of-energy-s-jefferson-lab/?sc=rsin /articles/new-director-appointed-to-lead-u-s-department-of-energy-s-jefferson-lab/?sc=rsin Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:30:48 EST Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, today announced that Kim Sawyer will become the new director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, effective Aug. 2. Sawyer will serve as the lab's fifth director in its 40-year history. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/newest-lovework-unveiled-in-newport-news/?sc=rsin /articles/newest-lovework-unveiled-in-newport-news/?sc=rsin Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:05:05 EST The Jefferson Lab LOVEwork is a testament to the lab's commitment to partnering with other national labs, reducing its environmental impact by reusing scientific apparatus, and educating future scientists in the science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) disciplines. This is the lab's first public art and STEAM education installation, and it was first unveiled on June 6 in preparation for Jefferson Lab's 2024 Open House event. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/moller-experiment-baselined-and-moving-forward/?sc=rsin /articles/moller-experiment-baselined-and-moving-forward/?sc=rsin Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:05:11 EST The MOLLER experiment has received Critical Decision 2 "Approve Performance Baseline" and Critical Decision 3 "Approve Start of Construction" from the Department of Energy, which provides clearance to move forward with all procurements and equipment construction. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/experimental-physics-leads-to-award-winning-research/?sc=rsin /articles/experimental-physics-leads-to-award-winning-research/?sc=rsin Wed, 29 May 2024 09:35:22 EST Jefferson Lab Staff Scientist Holly Szumila-Vance earns the 2024 Guido Altarelli Award for outstanding contributions to experimental physics. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/theory-and-experiment-combine-to-shine-a-new-light-on-proton-spin/?sc=rsin /articles/theory-and-experiment-combine-to-shine-a-new-light-on-proton-spin/?sc=rsin Fri, 24 May 2024 13:05:55 EST Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, a new method that combines experimental data with state-of-the-art calculations has revealed a more detailed picture of spin contributions from the very glue that holds protons together. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility