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IMAGE: Jefferson Lab s Experimental Hall A is one of four nuclear physics research areas in the lab s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility. view more
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NEWPORT NEWS - Nuclear physicists have made a new, highly accurate measurement of the thickness of the neutron skin that encompasses the lead nucleus in experiments conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and just published in Physical Review Letters. The result, which revealed a neutron skin thickness of .28 millionths of a nanometer, has important implications for the structure and size of neutron stars.
The protons and neutrons that form the nucleus at the heart of every atom in the universe help determine each atom s identity and properties. Nuclear physicists are studying different nuclei to learn more about how these protons and neutrons act inside the nucleus. The Lead Radius Experiment collaboration, called PREx (af
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Brookhaven Lab Names New Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate Lead
Haiyan Gao, a nuclear physicist and professor, will join the Lab as Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics
April 15, 2021
Haiyan Gao
UPTON, NY–Haiyan Gao, currently the Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke University, will join the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory as Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Nuclear & Particle Physics (NPP) starting on or about June 1, 2021.
Gao, who has a long history in nuclear physics, will help develop Brookhaven’s collective long-term vision for the next 10 years. She’ll also work across the Laboratory and beyond to craft its emerging expertise at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a one-of-kind nuclear physics research facility that will be built at the Lab over the next decade, after Brookhaven’s flagship nuclear physics facility, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, complete
Jefferson Lab in Newport News to host Open House event in 2022
The lab s last public Open House event was held in May 2018. More than 6,000 people visited that event. Author: 13News Now Staff Updated: 10:21 AM EDT April 15, 2021
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.
Editor s note: The video above is from May 2018.
The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News will open its doors to the public next year.
The Department of Energy facility will host an Open House on March 26, 2022. The last public open house was held in May 2018. More than 6,000 people attended that event.
The event is free and will give Hampton Roads residents of all ages the opportunity to explore Jefferson Lab s world-class research facility, according to a news release.
April 12, 2021
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Keith Baker
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson and his work on dark matter, has been appointed the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics. His appointment was effective Feb. 20.
A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Baker concentrates on experimental particle physics, including research at the energy frontier being conducted by the ATLAS collaboration at the
Large Hadron Collider (
LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, in Geneva, Switzerland, and precision studies at sub-eV energies. He helped build the detectors and was part of the team that carried out the machine learning analysis in the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last elementary particle predicted in what is known as the Standard Model of particle physics.