CHESS eNews #47

From the Director

As I write, CESR is coming back to life after a very busy summer down. Over the past few months, the technical staff have reconfigured the RF power supplies which provide the microwaves that power CESR running, prototyped the new (keyless) safety system at G-line, and taken delivery and installed the first new experimental hutches for CHESS-U. The RF reconfiguration both supports the CHESS-U upgrade and provides space for the CBETA accelerator project. Start-up has been going quite smoothly and we're right on schedule to resume operations.

Even though the CHESS-U upgrade project is only halfway complete, the accelerator physics group is continuing its research into better and better sources. The recently funded Optical Stochastic Cooling (OSC) research program is exploring a potentially transformative mechanism for reducing the emittance of high-current, relativistic, charged-particle beams. You can read about the OSC project (and several exciting scientific highlights) in the news articles below.

X-RAY RUNS

                     2017: November 1 - December 21

                     2018: February 7 - April 3 (Proposal/BTR deadline: 12/1/17)

                     2018: April 11 - June 4 (Proposal/BTR deadline: 2/1/18)

JOB OPENINGS

Pressure-induced fabrication of Janus nanoparticles and helically decorating nanorods

Using pressure rather than chemicals, a joint research team of Brown and Cornell Universities combined their strengths and reshaped nanoparticles into highly monodispersive Janus nanoparticles and helically decorating nanorods... more »

Cool, calm and collected

CESR team aims to lower beam emittance with Optical Stochastic Cooling... more »

Mapping lattice strain in 4H-Silicon Carbide by synchrotron double-crystal topography

Just out in Journal of Electronic Materials is a novel strain mapping study of crystalline Silicon Carbide, a material widely used as a substrate for thin film electronics... more »

DNA to RNA - more ways than one

Information encoded in our genes controls how we live and grow. As part of this complex process, DNA is transcribed to RNA, one "letter" (nucleotide) at a time... more »

A photographic feast of physics

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so a hundred pictures must be worth some hundred-thousand words. Indeed, students from the Applied Learning Experiences photography class at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) took hundreds of pictures during their visit to CHESS... more »