U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced April 21st that the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source will receive $100 million in funding from the National Science Foundation over the next five years... more »
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Tom Reed was in Ithaca April 22nd at Cornell University to meet with professors for a tour of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Light Source (CHESS) lab and the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, both supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) funding Reed secured for the lab... more »
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Superconductivity in so-called unconventional superconductors, for example copper-oxide, iron-arsenide and iron-selenide high-temperature superconductors, is nearly always found in the vicinity of another ordered state, such as antiferromagnetism, charge density wave... more »
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On a dreary February morning, students from The Science and Mathematics Saturday Academy Program visited the eXploration station at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source to participate in a series of make-and-take activities and tours highlighting the beauty and science of light. Instead of watching Saturday morning cartoons... more »
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At CHESS, we use almost exclusively video based beam position monitors (VBPMs) to monitor and characterize the white beam coming down each beam line[1-3]. The VBPMs great advantage over the traditional white beam monitors is that they provide... more »
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High energy synchrotron x-rays can pass through bulk thicknesses of most engineering alloys - interrogating every crystal... more »
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Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) is a method for investigating the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules in solution at a low... more »
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