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First result from Jefferson Lab's upgraded CEBAF opens door to exploring universal glue

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first experimental result has been published from the newly upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab. The result demonstrates the feasibility of the experiment that is designed to study quark confinement: why no quark has ever been found alone.

Journal: Physical Review C
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Physicists move closer to listening in on sub-atomic conversation

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Much like two friendly neighbors getting together to chat over a cup of coffee, the minuscule particles in our sub-atomic world also come together to engage in a kind of conversation. Now, nuclear scientists are developing tools to allow them to listen in on the particles' gab fests and learn more about how they stick together to build our visible universe. The first complex calculations of a particle called the sigma have been carried out and published in Physical Review Letters.

Jefferson Lab accomplishes critical milestones toward completion of 12 GeV upgrade

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Business Announcement

CEBAF at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has achieved two major commissioning milestones and is now entering the final stretch of work to conclude its first major upgrade. Recently, the CEBAF accelerator delivered electron beams into two of its experimental halls at energies not possible before the upgrade for commissioning of the experimental equipment currently in each hall.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science

Jefferson lab director honored with Energy Secretary Award

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Hugh Montgomery, director of the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), was awarded The Secretary's Distinguished Service Award by the Secretary of Energy earlier this year. This honor highlights Montgomery's contributions to the research programs at the DOE national labs, both as a world-leading researcher and as a more than 30-year DOE national laboratory employee.

New director named to lead US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC today announced that Stuart Henderson will become the new Director of the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia. Currently serving as the Director of the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Project at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, Henderson will assume his responsibilities at Jefferson Lab on April 3.

Research planned for unique spinning nuclei nets prize

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Elena Long, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire, has been awarded the 2016 Jefferson Science Associates Postdoctoral Research Prize for plans to build and test a new kind of target that will allow scientists to explore the physics of spinning nuclei at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

Funder: Jefferson Science Associates, LLC

Jefferson Lab's newest cluster makes Top500 list of fastest supercomputers

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

For the third time in its history, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is home to one of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. The SciPhi-XVI supercomputer was just listed as a TOP500 Supercomputer Site on Nov. 14, placing 397th on the 48th edition of the list of the world's top supercomputers.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy
Meeting: ecancer Oncology Congress -- Colombia 2016

Jefferson Lab 2015 Thesis Prize awarded for research on interacting protons and neutrons

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Or Hen has been awarded the 2015 Jefferson Science Associates Thesis Prize for his written thesis featuring research on how protons and neutrons interact inside the nucleus of the atom at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

Funder: Jefferson Science Associates, LLC

Jefferson Lab director awarded Glazebrook Medal

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

The director of the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and president of Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, Hugh E. Montgomery, has just been awarded the prestigious Glazebrook Medal by the Institute of Physics. The Glazebrook medal is one of four Gold medals awarded annually by the Institute of Physics, a society based in the United Kingdom with a worldwide membership of more than 50,000 who work to advance physics education, research and application.

Funder: Institute of Physics

Innovative device allows 3-D imaging of the breast with less radiation

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Adding a new device to an existing breast molecular imaging system allows the system to get six times better contrast of cancer lesions in the breast, providing the same or better image quality while also potentially reducing the radiation dose to the patient by half. The device may also allow for 3-D molecular breast images at higher resolution than current 2-D scans in a format that may be used alongside 3-D digital mammography.

Funder: Commonwealth of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, Dilon technologies Inc
Meeting: 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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