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Minimizing Deviations: Improving Beam Stability at CHESS
Particle storage rings are highly complex scientific instruments and minute changes in temperature, position or current through one of its many magnets can have a large impact on the position of the particle beam. At CHESS, the accelerator group works tirelessly to even further improve the beam position stability and with that to enhance experimental capabilities at the beamlines.
Biology Under Pressure: Beta-lactoglobulin survives under pressures as high as 9000 bar
To study how protein structures are impacted by external pressure a team of researchers developed a novel diamond anvil cell optimized for the study of macromolecules at external pressures up to 12kbar at the NSF, NIH and NY State supported FlexX beamline.
Ken Finkelstein Retires after 32 years at CHESS
In February 1988, Ken first arrived at CHESS with his first assignment: to build a wiggler. Since that time, Ken has been instrumental in keeping CHESS at the forefront of X-Ray emission spectroscopy, and that first wiggler (for many years called F line wiggler) is still in the tunnel generating x-rays for Sector 1. Ken is now retiring, leaving his mark on not only CHESS, but the synchrotron community at large.
SERCCS Student Highlight: Samuel Barton
“I’m helping build this, but I’m also benefiting from it...the better job I do, the more information I have."
CHESS Awarded Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) Grant
The collaboration created by RAISE converges structural materials data collected from the FAST and SMB beamlines at CHESS with the new technologies being developed at NSF High Performance Computing sites to create a Science Gateway.
ACA Workshop Highlights Practical Application of Small Angle
Richard Gillillan, CHESS Staff Scientist, conducted a SAXS workshop at the ACA conference late last month. Organized by former CHESS postdoc Jesse Hopkins, and now staff scientist at the Advanced Photon Source, students learned about this useful technique and its applications from the people that have written the book on Small Angle X-Ray Scattering.
Presentations at the PREM/SUNRISE/SERCCS Symposium August 7 1PM
The SERCCS/PREM/SUNRiSE Summer Students presented their research projects at a virtual Symposium & Poster Session on Friday, August 7th at 1pm.
These presentations were the final highlight of the 8- week programs of students working with CHESS mentors.
Stress Test for Remote Operations at CHESS
On July 31st, all seven CHESS beamlines scheduled for user operation in fall were being fully operated by remote connection - all at the same time - sometimes with 2 people connecting simultaneously to one machine.