More News

Two local research powerhouses have agreed to explore projects of mutual interest — like "growing" hair-like microscopic "nano" structures at the atomic level for optimum performance. Such a high-performance composite structure could result in an improved golf club shaft, for example, or any consumer, industrial or defense application where strength and light weight are critical.

Thanks to high-tech development work and some creative tuning and tweaking, the $650 million Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., can now accelerate beams of electrons to 6 billion electron volts — more energy by half than taxpayers originally paid for. With higher-energy electron beams, researchers using this U.S. Department of Energy laboratory can probe deeper than ever into the atom's nucleus to learn how matter itself is put together.

Christoph W. Leemann is Jefferson Lab's first Deputy Director. Lab Director Hermann Grunder recently announced Leemann's appointment to the new position at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

A Staff scientist from the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), who is also an assistant professor at Hampton University, received the Commonwealth of Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA) for 2000. Dr. Cynthia Keppel was one of 11 college faculty members — selected from 72 nominees — recognized during a ceremony at the State Capitol in Richmond on March 2.

Jefferson Lab and the Department of Energy recently recognized the winner of the laboratory's Small Disadvantaged Business Contractor Award for FY1999.
Jefferson Lab's Deputy Director, Christoph Leemann, presented the award to Beverly Hilton, owner of Hilton's Environmental, Inc. of Newport News during a ceremony attended by lab and DOE officials.

Isaac Newton, inventor of calculus and creator of classical physics, is thought by some to be the most intelligent person to have ever lived. When Albert Einstein introduced his theories of General and Special Relativity, Newton's Stature was not diminished, but increased. One genius, Newton, made the work of another, Einstein, possible. Einstein's theory is believable because the basic Newtonian mechanics we observe when tossing balls and sending rockets to the moon is preserved within the more far-reaching and abstract framework of realitivity.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) have produced record setting levels of laser power from their Free Electron Laser (FEL).

In the case of a deuteron — a single proton and neutron "walking lockstep" within the simplest atomic nucleus known — for physicists the basic question is at which point does a nucleon end and its constituent parts, the quarks, begin?

In a series of experiments at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), researchers are moving toward a substantially improved picture of nucleon structure and behavior.

Seemingly reasonable assumptions define the human view of the world. But ruled of thumb can mislead — or be altogether incorrect. Fortunately, in physics, most assumptions can be tested. Those that don't measure up are amended.

Scientists who conducted the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) Hall A Proton Parity Experiment, or HAPPEX, believe they may have at least a partial answer for an outstanding question in nuclear physics: Where does a proton's spin come from?

On November 5, 1998, at the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Board of Trustees Fall, Dr. Dennis W. Barnes announced that he was stepping down as SURA President at the end of calendar year 1998. The current Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Jerry P. Draayer (Louisiana State University), was elected as Dr. Barnes' successor effective Jan. 1, 1999. In his address to the trustees, Dr. Barnes cited that significant progress and growth that occurred within SURA during his tenure since 1992, and stated that SURA was now poised for new challenges in the years ahead.

A free evening of entertainment and learning await you Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va.
Internationally known physicist and guest lecturer, Professor Lawrence M. Krauss, will guide you on a warp speed journey through the Star Trek universe, which he uses as his launching pad into the fascinating world of modern physics.

Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Barry E. DuVal and the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) today announced the selection of a second new innovation center - The Center for Plasma and Photon Processing to advance the use of intelligent processes to control energy to create materials, structures and devices. As part of the Jefferson Center for Research and Technology, CIT's new Technology Innovation Center will share in the impact of 4200 jobs and $160 million.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have delivered first light from their Free Electron Laser (FEL). Only 2 years after ground was broken for the FEL, infrared light of more than 150 watts (150,000 times more powerful than that of a supermarket scanner or CD player) was delivered today — fifteen times the power of existing free-electron lasers.

Eleven scientists and a former high school intern were rewarded at a ceremony for inventions they created while pursuing the fundamental research mission of U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Lukasz Majewski, now a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University, helped develop three inventions during his summer internship at Jefferson Lab. A ceremony was held at 1 p.m. October 30, 1997, in the CEBAF Center Auditorium at Jefferson Lab. The Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc.

 
The Directives Review Team at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) has been awarded the Vice President's Hammer Award for its work on the simplification of the Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) requirements given by the U.S. Department of Energy for Jefferson Lab.

Dr. Lawrence S. Cardman
New Associate Director
Physics Division

 

The Department of Energy's FY 1997 budget, released today leaves CEBAF's Budgetary outlook for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1996 in good order. One of the highlights of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research budget is to sustain the High Energy and Nuclear Physics programs under which CEBAF's effort is directed.