SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

First detailed electronic study of new nickelate superconductor finds 3D metallic state

January 20, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments condensed matter physics and materials, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Superconductors, X-ray science

It represents an entirely new type of ground state for transition metal oxides, and opens new directions for experiments and theoretical studies of how superconductivity arises and how it can be optimized in this system and possibly in other compounds.

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Connecting the dots in the sky could shed new light on dark matter

January 13, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Dark Energy, Dark Energy Survey, dark matter, Slac, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma rays covering the night sky. They found that this light is brighter in regions that contain a lot of matter and dimmer where matter is sparser – a correlation that could help them narrow down the properties of exotic astrophysical objects and invisible dark matter.

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A day in the life of a telescope camera assembler

December 18, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Department of Energy (DOE), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, LSST, Mechanical Engineering, Office of Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The LSST camera is the biggest digital camera ever constructed for ground-based astronomy. Within the year, Hannah and her teammates will finish assembling and testing the camera and it will be shipped to its home at the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile.

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Scientists discover how proteins form crystals that tile a microbe’s shell

December 17, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Biosciences, Microbiology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University

Many microbes wear beautifully patterned crystalline shells. Now scientists have zoomed in on the very first step in microbial shell-building: nucleation, where squiggly proteins crystallize into sturdy building blocks. The results help explain how the shells assemble themselves so quickly.

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SLAC scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser

December 2, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments LCLS, Slac, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, X-Ray

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have invented a way to observe the movements of electrons with powerful X-ray laser bursts just 280 attoseconds, or billionths of a billionth of a second, long.

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Six Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

November 26, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments AAAS Fellows, bioactinide, BIOCHEMISTRY, Bioengineering, Biosciences, chelation therapy, chemical and biomolecular engineering, chemical sciences, Cosmology, Cyanobacteria, Dark Energy Survey, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, earth and planetary sciences, Earth Sciences, Earthquakes, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Nuclear Engineering, Particle Physics, Physics, Plutonium, Radionuclides, Seismology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Systems Biology, UC Berkeley

Six scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Theorists probe the relationship between ‘strange metals’ and high-temperature superconductors

November 21, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments quantum materials, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, superconducting materials

SLAC theorists have observed strange metallicity in a well-known model for simulating and describing the behavior of materials with strongly correlated electrons, which join forces to produce unexpected phenomena rather than acting independently.

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Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial device

October 14, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC and Stanford researchers have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial electrolyzer – a step toward large-scale hydrogen production for fuel, fertilizer and industry.

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Researchers home in on extremely rare nuclear process

September 25, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Neutrinos, Slac, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A hypothetical nuclear process known as neutrinoless double beta decay ought to be among the least likely events in the universe. Now the international EXO-200 collaboration, which includes researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has determined just how unlikely it is: In a given volume of a certain xenon isotope, it would take more than 35 trillion trillion years for half of its nuclei to decay through this process – an eternity compared to the age of the universe, which is “only” 13 billion years old.

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First report of superconductivity in a nickel oxide material

August 28, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Materials Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists at SLAC and Stanford have made the first nickel oxide material that shows clear signs of superconductivity – the ability to transmit electrical current with no loss. The first in a potential new family of unconventional superconductors, its similarity to the cuprates raises hopes that it can be made to superconduct at relatively high temperatures.

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