mgibbs63

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by mgibbs63 8mo ago
I think there's a strong argument that the most useful product from collider science is the synchrotron light source. Researchers using collider rings realized that the x-ray synchrotron light these rings emit (an inconvenience to col
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by mgibbs63 3y ago
I totally agree! I also very much appreciate the amount of time they dedicate to explaining the details of the apparatus. I suspect that very few physics students get any reasonable amount of instruction on experimental techniques these d
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by mgibbs63 6y ago
Fun fact: the guy who made [2] is also the co-author of the first web page hosted in North America.
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by mgibbs63 6y ago
I agree - many older particle accelerators in the U.S. have/had control rooms that look very similar to these photos (go see the 88-inch cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab if you ever get a chance!). I think this is more &#x2
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by mgibbs63 9y ago
You can't actually suck all the energy out - the best you can do is get the atom into its ground state, which is still non-zero. The de Broglie wavelength of the atom is (h/p), where h is Planck's constant, and p is the atom&
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by mgibbs63 9y ago
As a die hard LCLS supporter, I have to say: XFEL has the more powerful electron beam, but LCLS is still in the lead in terms of X-rays right now (if pulse intensity/peak power is the measure). XFEL is really an amazing machine, though
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by mgibbs63 9y ago
Synchrotron lightsources are a dime a dozen. For real power, you want a free electron laser. The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC (right in Silicon Valley's back yard) pumps out an X-ray beam with about 750,000 times as many photo
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by mgibbs63 12y ago
The HOPE Scholarship (the Georgia in-state scholarship program) still exists, but since the early 2000's, it has become considerably harder to qualify for. It used to be as easy as graduating from a public high school in Georgia with