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Spear3: Standing on the Shoulders of
a Giant
 By Tom Mead
It’s been a long time comin’. SPEAR2, named SPEAR when it
was built more than 30 years ago, will close down on March 31. But, it
won’t be a long time gone. In an enterprising example of close-order
scheduling, the upgrade to SPEAR3 will begin just two hours after the
event marking SPEAR2’s closing.
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Compact Light Source Goes Commercial
by Tom Mead
A spin-off enterprise based on SLAC technology transfer
has emerged. A new company has been formed to develop a compact
synchrotron light source based on Compton scattering of a laser beam. The
founders of the company are Ron Ruth (ARDA), Rod Loewen (KLY), and Jeff
Rifkin (formerly with ARDA). The National Institutes of Health is funding
the prototype development.
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SLAC Office Manages the Business of Physics
By Kyle Jaros
 SLAC
physicists call science, not business, their specialty. But SLAC does not
exist in a vacuum, and when hardware and software developed to support
specialized research find wider audiences in industry, relations with the
private sector can prove very useful.
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Radiation Shielding Experiments at
the FFTB
By
Miriam Boon
A team of radiation physicists recently completed a
series of experiments at SLAC to determine the high-energy neutron
spectra and its attenuation length in concrete. These are important
quantities in the design of shielding at high-energy accelerators.
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