Sentences with phrase «synchrotron experiments»

The project was given the thumbs - up by CERN's SPS and Proton Synchrotron Experiments Committee at a meeting in mid-January, and it must next be approved by the lab's Research Board when it meets at the end of February.

Scientists from Los Alamos, Argonne National Laboratory and National Security Technologies LLC generated shock waves in cerium samples using the state - of - the - art IMPact system for ULtrafast Synchrotron Experiments (IMPULSE), which was developed specifically for use at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Argonne.

The synchrotron experiment at Argonne is a modern - day version of 19th - century England's «mummy unwrapping» parties, Walton said.

The findings from the synchrotron experiment, CT scan and other scientific analyses and studies of history conducted by the students will help researchers and historians better understand the context in which the Garrett mummy was excavated in 1911 as well as Roman - period mummification practices.

«This is a unique experiment, a 3 - D puzzle,» said Stuart R. Stock, research professor of cell and molecular biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who led the synchrotron experiment.

Not exact matches

«Earth's center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought, synchrotron X-ray experiment shows.»

The electron microscopy provided a crucial piece of the larger puzzle assembled in concert with Berkeley Lab materials scientists and soft x-ray spectroscopy experiments conducted at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

The NA62 experiment is a particle physics experiment at CERN using a 400 GeV proton beam from the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) accelerator.

Brookhaven, which has more than 3000 employees and an annual budget of $ 400 million, is home to several major DOE facilities, including the High Flux Beam Reactor — one of the nation's premier neutron - scattering centers — and two major synchrotrons that are used for a host of materials, biology, and medical research experiments.

These Ne - Kr clusters were then exposed to pulsed X-rays of the SPring - 8 synchrotron radiation source which, under the conditions chosen for the experiment, preferentially ionized Ne atoms.

Pauling's theory was not tested until the group of researchers — comprised of Eric Isaacs, Donald Hamann and Phil Platzman of Bell Labs; Bernardo Barbiellini, now at Northeastern University; Abhay Shukla of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF); and Christopher A. Tulk of National Research Council of Canada — devised a clever experiment.

For their experiment, the team used three structural biology beamlines at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron in Grenoble (France): ID29, ID23 - 1, and the fully automated» hands - off» beamline MASSIF - 1, as well as the Xaloc beamline at Alba, the Spanish sSynchrotron in Grenoble (France): ID29, ID23 - 1, and the fully automated» hands - off» beamline MASSIF - 1, as well as the Xaloc beamline at Alba, the Spanish synchrotronsynchrotron.

Selenium phasing is commonly used at synchrotrons, another bright source of light for X-ray experiments.

«Experiments have gotten a lot more complex over the past 20 years, not just at LCLS but at synchrotron light sources, too,» he said.

Unlike synchrotron light sources, which may have dozens of X-ray beamlines and many experiments going on simultaneously, the current version of LCLS has just one powerful beam, a billion times brighter than any available before, whose pulses arrive up to 120 times per second.

If a sample is radiation - sensitive, it can be difficult to do the experiment at a synchrotron, where X-ray pulses tend to be longer and samples may be damaged during the measurement.

Now, an international research group led by the University of Tsukuba and Aarhus University has performed synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments on titanium disulfide (TiS2)-- a transition metal dichalogenide (TMD) material with a layered 2D structure — and compared the results with theoretical calculations.

The young research scientist is already carrying out further experiments at the synchrotron facility's new «Petra III» beamline, which according to DESY is the world's biggest and most brilliant storage ring x-ray source.

They performed Micro-beam in - situ stress experiments in the mySpot BESSY facility of HZB, Berlin, Germany and analyzed the local orientation of the mineral nanoparticles using the nano - imaging facility of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.

The new study definitively shows that the pseudogap is one of the things that stands in the way of getting superconductors to work at higher temperatures for everyday uses, said lead author Makoto Hashimoto, a staff scientist at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), the DOE Office of Science User Facility where the experiments were carried out.

Eric Dooryhee explains that a synchrotron is an exceptionally powerful source of light (from x-rays to infrared), which permits fast, sensitive experiments to be done without damage on minute samples of objects, using a range of analytical techniques and allowing measurements to be made below the surface.

In situ high - pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction and absorption experiments have been done to investigate the behavior of the DAC.

We carry out inelastic X-ray scattering experiments at synchrotrons, especially at Sector 30 (HERIX), Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.

Some of the first experiments carried out in the Laboratory involved the adaptation of radiation from a synchrotron source for use with biological material.

Experiments with neutrons, synchrotron and ion radiation offer complementary possibilities to illuminate the properties of matter in all its facets.

The experiments were performed with the help of Yu - chen Karen Chen - Wiegart, Feng Wang, Jun Wang and their co-workers at Beamline X8C, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences and a seed grant from the Wisconsin Energy Institute.

Graduate student Linsen Li worked with Jin and other collaborators to perform experiments with a state - of - the - art transmission X-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven.

Other useful properties of synchrotron light are: - high energy beams to penetrate deeper into matter - small wavelengths permit the studying of tiny features, e.g. bonds in molecules; nanoscale objects - synchrotron beams can be coherent and / or polarised, permitting specific experiments - the synchrotron beam can be made to flash at a very high frequency, giving the light a time structure.

Synchrotron radiation makes it possible to carry out operando experiments where scientists can monitor nanomaterials while the catalytic reaction takes place under realistic thermal and process conditions.