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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Apr-2025 12:08 ET (19-Apr-2025 16:08 GMT/UTC)

Postdoc takes multipronged approach to muon detection

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

2024 JSA Postdoctoral Prize Winner Debaditya Biswas will combine different particle identification methods with machine learning to detect muons hidden in a sea of pions.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Microwave popcorn to particle accelerators: magnetrons show promise as radiofrequency source

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Building on nearly 15 years of research, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are exploring magnetrons as the drivers of modern particle accelerators. This could lower the carbon footprint of these energy-hungry machines and help them benefit societyfar beyond the realm of scientific research.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Chasing and counting mesons

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Karthik Suresh’s doctoral dissertation on meson decay in the ongoing GlueX Collaboration at Jefferson Lab has just earned the prestigious 2023 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New director appointed to lead U.S. Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Business Announcement

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, today announced that Kim Sawyer will become the new director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, effective Aug. 2. Sawyer will serve as the lab’s fifth director in its 40-year history. In this role, Sawyer will be responsible for leading all activities in support of the world’s premiere research institution for exploring the nature of matter.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

MOLLER experiment baselined and moving forward

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Business Announcement

The MOLLER experiment has received Critical Decision 2 “Approve Performance Baseline” and Critical Decision 3 “Approve Start of Construction” from the Department of Energy, which provides clearance to move forward with all procurements and equipment construction.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Experimental physics leads to award-winning research

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Jefferson Lab Staff Scientist Holly Szumila-Vance earns the 2024 Guido Altarelli Award for outstanding contributions to experimental physics.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Theory and experiment combine to shine a new light on proton spin

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, a new method that combines experimental data with state-of-the-art calculations has revealed a more detailed picture of spin contributions from the very glue that holds protons together.

Journal: Physical Review D
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Jefferson Lab director named to 2024 Hampton Roads Power List

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Jefferson Lab Director Stuart Henderson has been named to the 2024 Hampton Roads Power List, compiled by Inside Business. This is Henderson’s 6^th appearance on the list.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Oppenheimer fellows to gain broader view of national labs

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Two physicists at Jefferson Lab have been selected as fellows for the distinguished Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP), considered the highest honor for leadership training among national labs. Douglas Higinbotham, operations director for the lab’s physics division, and Mike Spata, deputy associate director of accelerator operations and research and development, have joined 29 other individuals from 17 national laboratories across the country as the 2024 cohort of the program designed to cultivate and retain talented leaders.

DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation visits Jefferson Lab

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Business Announcement

On April 18, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility welcomed Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geraldine (Geri) Richmond for a tour of the lab and briefing on its research mission, innovation and STEM programs.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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