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Cornell Vertical Electro-Polishing of SRF cavities achieves ILC base-line specifications
Vertical-test results of ACCEL9 at 2.0 K in the pi-mode. Red dots show the cavity performance; two X dots indicate the ILC baseline specifications. Read more...
Cornell makes physics fun at D.C. science expo
Jim Overhiser, former physics teacher in residence in the Cornell PhysTec program, explains how to convert light to music. Read more...
Past News Items
Wind turbine challengers 'catch the breeze' NYC teachers learn hands-on activities to inspire students Hasan Padamsee receives IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award! Junk Genies Program Helps Middle Schoolers Apply Physics Cornell ERL Prototype Successes Grow Cornell-ERL Main-Linac Cavity Reaches Performance Specs in Vertical Test Resource Fair shows local teachers how Cornell can help First Cavity for the Cornell-ERL main linac First two-sided limit on FCNC decay rate of Bs mesons at CDF NanoDay 2011 at Wilson Lab The sound of accelerator cavities – liquid helium's curious properties help scientists focus on cavity defects. Discovery of new source of energy? IEEE Award for Cornell PhD thesis in SRF Cornell makes progress on Energy Recovery Linac New Results in Electron Cloud Physics Research $109 million NSF award funds X-ray science, research and development for revolutionary new X-ray source Cornell Summer Science Sampler Program Fabrication of seven-cell cavities for the international ERL cryomodule collaboration Clobbering Electron Clouds CU Physicist to use stimulus funds to study electron beams The LHC Concludes a Successful First Run Cornell electron storage ring is test case for International Linear Collider Cornell University workshop highlights importance of R&D for ILC damping rings Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory Open House 2009 Cornell ERL09 Workshop Large time projection chamber prototype is about to start its first test First Beam through ERL Injector Expanding Your Horizons gets a spark from LEPP! Physicist Drell calls for scientists to act more selflessly -- and broadly -- in seeking science funding Wilson Synchrotron looks ahead to 'big science' and looks back on 40 years of leading accelerator research Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg Delivers Messenger Lectures REU Summer Students Contribute to ILC Damping Ring Studies at Cornell University ERL Funding Jim Alexander becomes Director of LEPP Undergraduate Physics Majors Participate in Cornell's LEPP Summer Research Projects Physics labs consolidate to form CLASSE and build a new accelerator Superconducting Cavity Test - June 2006. Cornell Group Achieves Milestone in Superconducting Cavity Test Performance Record - May 2006. CESR-c Achieves New Performance Record. Binding Quarks - April 2006. CLEO-c measures the orbit of the down quark when it is bound to a much heavier charm quark.From Cornell News Service Archives
Fingerprints, flowers and shrimp eyeballs..."Cornell Researchers take science on the road to NYC Schools" Particle physics in U.S. is at a crossroads...
"With ILC, it's electrons, so you know to a gnat's eyelash what the energy of the colliding particles is. And that gives you more constraints."
Tigner wins American Physical Society award
July 28, 2005. Tigner wins American Physical Society award for work on missile
defense. By
Lauren Gold. ITHACA, NY -- Maury Tigner, professor ...
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/Tigner.missile.lg.html - 6k - Cached
Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory open house
... one of a series of events during the past month sponsored by the Cornell Department
of Physics and Laboratory
for Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP), and other ...
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June05/Wilson.lab.open.sfm.html - 4k - Cached
Cornell News: World Year of Physics
A series of events sponsored by Cornell University's Department of Physics and
Laboratory for Elementary-Particle
Physics (LEPP) and other Cornell outreach ...
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/LEPP-Events.sfm.html - 5k - Cached
X-ray source prototype
NSF awards Cornell $18 million to develop a new source of X-rays. By Simeon Moss.
In the proposed Energy Recovery Linac facility, electrons ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/2.24.05/ERL.html - 6k - Cached
Cornell News: particle colliders described
Maury Tigner, director of Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics
(LEPP), is playing a major role
in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the ...
www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb05/AAAS.Tigner.deb.html - 6k - Cached
Physics First
... presenters at a Cornell conference, called Exploring Physics First, June 30 to July
2 sponsored by Cornell's
Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP). ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/7.24.03/Physics_First.html - 5k - Cached
Physics workshop is July 26
... On July 26 Ahren Sadoff, research professor at the Laboratory for Elementary-Particle
Physics (LEPP)
at Cornell, and Lora Hine, education outreach coordinator ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/7.15.04/physics_workshop.html - 5k- Cached
Labs awarded NSF funding
... million over the next five years by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support
research at the Laboratory
for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP) and the ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/3.13.03/CESR-NSF.html - 7k - Cached
Research spending
... allocations" being made to the synchrotron complex at Wilson Laboratory, which houses
CHESS (Cornell High
Energy Synchrotron Source), LEPP (Laboratory for ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/1.16.03/research_spending.html - 5k - Cached
Atoms for Kids class
... This is an attitude that scientists at Cornell's Laboratory of Elementary Particle
Physics (LEPP)
hope to persuade many more children to adopt. ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/02/4.25.02/Atoms_for_Kids.html - 6k - Cached
Physicists meet to discuss collider
... The university's Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics, or LEPP (previously
the Newman Laboratory
of Nuclear Studies), is organizing a national consortium ...
www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/02/4.25.02/collider_mtg.html - 6k - Cached
Cornell News: Tigner named LNS director
Maury Tigner, accelerator builder and adviser on Chinese science, is named director
of Cornell's particle research
lab.
www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec99/Tigner.LNS.deb.html - 8k - Cached
Dugan Selected as North American Regional GDE Director
Recently, GDE Director Barry Barish announced the appointment of Gerald Dugan,
professor of physics at Cornell University, as the regional director of the ILC Global Design
Effort for North America. 06.03.2005
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