The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) celebrated the groundbreaking for a new $32.6 million high magnetic field project April 14 – the facility’s latest milestone.

The 2022 PREM XAS Workshop was held in person from Thursday, March 31 to Friday, April 1 on the Cupey campus of Universidad Ana G. Méndez in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  The goal of this workshop was to introduce the current Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials (CIE2M) and High Magnetic Field (HMF) beamline students to x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) experiments.

Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a one-day conference designed to stimulate participants’ interest in math and science through hands-on activities, provide female scientist role models, and foster awareness of opportunities in math and science-related careers. This year the event returned in-person and CHESS staff participated in a lab tour.

At the present time we are planning to hold this NSF-funded workshop in person at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  Attendees may apply for travel and lodging support. Click for more info.

Photocathodes are materials that emit electrons when illuminated by light, and are vital to the performance of some of the world’s most powerful particle accelerators. But due to poor crystalline properties, photocathodes have yet to realize their full potential. Cornell researchers are addressing this limitation.

Three professors in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS): Kyle Shen, Kin Fai Mak and Lawrence Gibbons.

The muon is a tiny particle, but it has the giant potential to upend our understanding of the subatomic world and reveal an undiscovered type of fundamental physics.