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The CESR Test Accelerator program (CESR-TA): After the reassembly
The storage ring CESR is back in operation after major renovations this summer: The 1500-ton CLEO-II High Energy Physics (HEP) detector was removed in preparation for future upgrades of CESR. (The CLEO-II detector was the third HEP experiment in CESR, which utilized electron-positron collisions to study b- and c-quark-based subatomic particles, as verification for the Standard Model of HEP.)
From X-rays to the Met
Louisa Smieska, a former Post-Doc at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), explains how chemistry and art brought her to become a synchrotron scientist.
Congressman Tonko visits CHESS
New York State Congressman Paul Tonko took a tour of CHESS on Tuesday, November 1st, meeting with staff, users and local companies that will be impacted by CHESS-U, the upgrade that will optimize the accelerator for x-ray production.
Disordered dimer state in electron-doped Sr3Ir2O7
A team led by researchers at the Materials Department University of California, Santa Barbara, working at CHESS C1 station and the Advanced Photon Source, have revealed a hidden, disordered dimer state in the electron-doped bilayer spin-orbit Mott insulator Sr3Ir2O7 [1].
Improving HOIP solar cells by controlling structural instabilities
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have become the most promising next generation solar cell material due to inexpensive processing and high efficiency.
Xraise offers educators the Augmented Reality Sandbox
Ithaca area middle school students now have an exciting new way—3D, kinesthetic, and visual—to experience topography and isolines in their science classrooms, thanks to our outreach team at Xraise.
'Bolt of lightning' captures development of block copolymer
The ability to precisely control every aspect of a material, even at the nanoscale, is of critical importance in a host of applications.
CHESS-U accelerator design: From two beams to one
When CESR first came online in 1979, the accelerator was optimized for high-energy physics (HEP), with a design based on the "FODO" concept: one unit cell was comprised of a horizontally-focusing quadrupole, a dipole, a vertically-focusing quadrupole, and another dipole.