Beyond the Lab with Bill Miller

For the past 30 years, Bill has gone from helping users capture data on Polaroids, to assembling hutches for the recent CHESS-U upgrade.  

Throughout these thirty years, one thing has always been constant; Bill is there when you need him, whether you are a user or a staff scientist, Bill is known to lend a helping hand. However, If you ask him, he would add a bit of humor, the kind that seems to follow Bill around the lab; “Nothing is constant here, that’s why I love it!”

VIP Guests at CHESS

On November 20th, New York State Senator Anna Kaplan, D-Great Neck, visited Wilson Lab to learn more about the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, CBETA.  This new prototype accelerator is a collaboration between Brookhaven National Lab, (near Kaplan’s district on Long Island), and Cornell scientists.  In time, the CBETA project is expected to become the most energy-efficient, high performance accelerator ever built.  Both CHES

A Brilliant Relationship - Detector Development at Cornell

Detectors are critical to any synchrotron lightsource, they help characterize the samples being probed, as well as the X-rays that interrogate them.  Certain detectors can tell researchers about the intensity, energy, position and timing of X-rays; all crucial information needed to commission and tailor experiments for users.   The detector’s main purpose for the users of CHESS, however, is to produce detailed imagery, revealing hidden traits in samples such a

Beyond the Lab with Elisabeth Bodnaruk

Elisabeth Bodnaruk seems very comfortable as she looks into the container of liquid nitrogen.  At -321 degrees F, liquid nitrogen is widely used throughout CHESS, but right now she is using it to commission some Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTDs). These RTDs will be placed in two silicon crystal monochromators where they will transmit temperature readings, and are an integral part of daily operations in the lab. 

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