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Inauguration of SPEAR3, Dazzling New
Light Source By Heather Rock Woods
Aglow with satisfaction, officials dedicated SPEAR3, a brilliant new
synchrotron light source at SSRL, on January 29 in a tent packed with some
850 people.
SPEAR3 generates extremely bright x-ray beams to illuminate long-kept
secrets in materials science, chemistry and biology on the sub-microscopic
scale.
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SLAC
and Caltech Collaborate on New SPEAR3 Beam Line to Read a Molecule’s
Blueprints
By Neil Calder
Just as astronomers image very large objects at great distances to
understand what makes the universe tick, biologists and chemists need to
image very small molecules to understand what makes living systems tick.
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8-Pack Team Makes Progress on Linear Collider Technology
By Heather Rock Woods
The Next Linear Collider’s (NLC) 8-Pack team surpassed a crucial hurdle
last month in the quest to develop a new linear collider to search for the
Universe’s missing particles.
The project squeezed an incredible 475 megawatts (MW) of energy into a
succinct 400-nanosecond (ns) pulse of radio frequency (RF) power. This
short-lived peak power (400 billionths of a second) is more than that
produced by some nuclear power plants.
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Champagne Challenge By Kate Metropolis
In less than a month last summer, five physicists, led by Roodman,
analyzed over 20 million events, found the mere 46 in which a B meson
decayed into two neutral pions, and prepared a paper for Physical Review
Letters. The group won the Champagne challenge for being the first to
submit a paper using data from run 3.
Zoltan Ligeti, a theorist at LBNL, called the results significant.
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10-Year Awards Celebration
35 employees who made their 10-year milestone at SLAC in 2003 were
honored at an awards ceremony in January.
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Celebrating Year of the Monkey By Andrea Chan
Over 50 SLAC’ers gathered at Jing Jing Restaurant in Palo Alto on the
first day of Chinese New Year—January 23—for a 10-course banquet. The menu
featured egg rolls, braised rock cod, mongolian beef, honey walnut prawns
and tea smoked duck. The event was organized by Karena Kong (BABAR).
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