Latest news from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility on Newswise en-us Copyright 2025 Newswise 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/animation-offers-a-new-view-of-the-nucleus/?sc=rsin /articles/animation-offers-a-new-view-of-the-nucleus/?sc=rsin Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:40:43 EST The year 2025 has been proclaimed the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology by the United Nations, recognizing 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/robert-mckeown-recognized-for-a-half-century-of-distinguished-service/?sc=rsin /articles/robert-mckeown-recognized-for-a-half-century-of-distinguished-service/?sc=rsin Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:55:52 EST For nearly half a century, Robert D. "Bob" McKeown has probed nuclear particles and educated rising generations of physicists. Now, the former deputy director for science at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is being honored for his outstanding career contributions with the 2024 American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Distinguished Service Award. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/jefferson-lab-devotes-3-million-to-testing-new-ideas/?sc=rsin /articles/jefferson-lab-devotes-3-million-to-testing-new-ideas/?sc=rsin Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:00:21 EST Jefferson Lab announces its newest slate of projects to receive Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) program funding for 2025. In its 12th year, the LDRD program will split $3 million among 13 different projects. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/jefferson-lab-dedicates-niobium-tin-particle-accelerator-prototype/?sc=rsin /articles/jefferson-lab-dedicates-niobium-tin-particle-accelerator-prototype/?sc=rsin Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:00:00 EST Jefferson Lab has dedicated the first particle accelerator cryomodule built with niobium-tin components. The quarter cryomodule is the first designed and tested for accelerating an electron beam to 10 MeV or greater energies and marks a major milestone toward the next era of SRF particle accelerators. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/behind-the-model-visualizing-solid-with-3d-printing2/?sc=rsin /articles/behind-the-model-visualizing-solid-with-3d-printing2/?sc=rsin Mon, 09 Dec 2024 16:25:28 EST Jian-ping Chen, Jefferson Lab Hall A and C Staff Scientist and SoLID Project Manager, and his team created a 3D-printed model of the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device (SoLID) project. Here's why. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/from-liberal-arts-to-leadership-in-nuclear-physics/?sc=rsin /articles/from-liberal-arts-to-leadership-in-nuclear-physics/?sc=rsin Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:00:12 EST Mark Kevin Jones is a true Renaissance man in nuclear physics. Throughout his career, he has garnered many accomplishments, and he's even worn quite a few hats in his three decades at Jefferson Lab. Now, Jones has been recognized for his work by his peers by being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society "For scientific leadership in experimental studies of the fundamental nucleon electromagnetic form factors, including the surprising discovery of significant variation in the large momentum behavior of the proton electric form factor, and for developing new detection systems enabling the studies." Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/a-career-of-chasing-particle-beams/?sc=rsin /articles/a-career-of-chasing-particle-beams/?sc=rsin Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:00:39 EST New 2024 APS Fellow Alex Bogacz has spent his career in accelerator physics solving problems. From studying complex particle beam dynamics in particle accelerators to designing next-generation machines, his almost four decades of work have recently been recognized by his peers by being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in October 2024. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/benchmarking-cebaf/?sc=rsin /articles/benchmarking-cebaf/?sc=rsin Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:00:37 EST Particle accelerator scientists have made the measurements, crunched the numbers and consolidated the data on the performance of the brightest electron accelerator for nuclear physics research. In a new study, more than 100 authors have detailed the original and current operating parameters, main systems and subsystems, and capabilities and limits of Jefferson Lab's main particle accelerator, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/behind-the-model-science-inspired-by-legos/?sc=rsin /articles/behind-the-model-science-inspired-by-legos/?sc=rsin Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:00:30 EST Walt Akers, Jefferson Lab's chief systems engineer for experimental nuclear physics, created a 3D-printed model of a section of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) on a short timeline ahead of the lab's 2024 Open House. He calls it the "Lego model." Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/24s-a-businesslike-name-for-a-high-performing-machine/?sc=rsin /articles/24s-a-businesslike-name-for-a-high-performing-machine/?sc=rsin Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:00:54 EST The latest addition to the computational arsenal of Jefferson Lab is an extraordinary machine with the admittedly ordinary name of "24s." The 24s cluster at Jefferson Lab will work to unlock the mysteries of the nucleus of the atom. It was funded by the Nuclear and Particle Physics LQCD Computing Initiative of DOE's Office of Nuclear Physics. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/missing-no-more-neutrons-join-the-data-in-nuclear-physics-experiments-with-help-from-a-new-detector-and-machine-learning-techniques-https-www-jlab-orgnewsreleasesaccessing-lesser-known-nucleon/?sc=rsin /articles/missing-no-more-neutrons-join-the-data-in-nuclear-physics-experiments-with-help-from-a-new-detector-and-machine-learning-techniques-https-www-jlab-orgnewsreleasesaccessing-lesser-known-nucleon/?sc=rsin Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:23 EST Protons and neutrons-known collectively as nucleons-are both the building blocks of matter, but one of these particles has received a bit more attention in certain types of nuclear physics experiments. Until now. New results published in Physical Review Letters describe a first-time direct glimpse of the internal structure of the neutron thanks to the development of a special, 10-years-in-the-making detector installed in Experimental Hall B at Jefferson Lab. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /articles/inside-the-box-look-at-excited-hadrons-could-help-solve-mystery-of-particle-x-3872/?sc=rsin /articles/inside-the-box-look-at-excited-hadrons-could-help-solve-mystery-of-particle-x-3872/?sc=rsin Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:15:28 EST So-called "XYZ states" defy the standard picture of particle behavior and have given rise to several attempts to understand their nature. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility /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