Juggling Physics research and Hollywood consulting was bound to have its terrifying moments. James Maxwell, on-call physics advisor for the 2016 “Ghostbusters” film, was buried in research on high field polarization of Helium-3 when his cell phone rang. He stepped outside of a lab at Brookhaven National Laboratory to answer a call from Ghostbuster’s actress Melissa McCarthy. But “the call dropped!” Maxwell recalls, wide-eyed, as if reliving the shock and horror of a moment which later earned him a joking punch in the arm from McCarthy.
Scientific discoveries require more than just science; they require tools, equipment and resources to enable scientists to conduct their research. That’s where Renee Carter comes in. As a procurement administrator, Carter is focused on securing the tools, materials and devices that Jefferson Lab researchers need to fulfill every aspect of their work.
Researcher Relies on Jefferson Lab’s Powerful ‘Microscope’ to Study Weak Forces
Krishna Kumar has made it his life’s work to study the space within atoms. He pursues answers to life’s basic questions: Where did we come from? How are we put together? What happened right after the Big Bang?
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Speaker: Guoxing Wang (Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, LPTHE)
Title: Next-to-Leading Power Resummed Rapidity Distributions Near Threshold for Drell-Yan and Diphoton Production...
Title: Optimization of Superconducting Cavities: Shape, Fields, Multipactor
Abstract: A method is discussed to search geometrical parameters of elliptical cavities to obtain the best possible figures of merit: B_pk/E_acc (peak magnetic field) and GR/Q (losses) for a given E_pk/E_acc (peak electric field), aperture, wall...
Title: Methods for high-precision determinations of radiative-leptonic decay form factors using lattice QCD
Abstract: In the region of hard photon energies, radiative leptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons represent important probes of the internal structure of hadrons. Such decays are particularly interesting for...
