Feature Articles

Nuclear physicists have announced the most precise measurement yet of the ultra-short lifetime of the neutral pion. The result is an important validation of our understanding of the theory of quantum chromodynamics, which describes the makeup of ordinary matter. The research, carried out at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, was recently published in the journal Science.

James "Jim" Fast has joined Jefferson Lab as the MOLLER Project Manager. MOLLER is the "Measurement of a Lepton-Lepton Electroweak Reaction" experiment that will measure the weak charge of the electron.

Computer scientists, software developers and system administrators are coming together under one roof in the newly established Computational Sciences and Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Amber Boehnlein, Jefferson Lab's chief information officer, has been promoted to associate director for computational sciences and technology, heading up the new division.

Three graduate students -- From the University of Virginia and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- have gotten a financial boost from DOE to conduct research at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The students have received supplemental research awards from the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.