Fermi's PIP-II project is on the move. Here's the cold box arriving on-site in the wee hours of Dec. 21st.

More info here: https://pip2.fnal.gov/coldbox/

Hey! I'm about to go to ORNL for an USPAS session later this month. Anybody got anything neat I should try to see or do? Either at Oak Ridge or in general nearby?

I won't have that much free time... But still.

Anyone know anything about these guys? https://emerald-horizon.com/

They seem to be touting an accelerator driven sub critical thorium reactor. They are light on details but I infer from information elsewhere that the idea might be a laser driven accelerator. That's the bit of their tech I am most interested in.

Presumably they're starting with protons onto a light element target if it's a very compact. Anyone know anything about details of the accelerator?

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA is having its biennial open house tomorrow Saturday June 8 from 9am-3pm, admission and parking is free. Learn about superconducting materials, supercomputers, particle accelerators, particle detectors, nuclear physics research and much more. See our web page for more information.

Who makes a relatively 'off the shelf' 70+ MeV cyclotron? Preferably capable of helium beams as well as protons. I know IBA do, but are there alternatives?

The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA is having its biennial open house on Saturday June 8 from 9am-3pm, admission and parking is free. Learn about superconducting materials, supercomputers, particle accelerators, particle detectors, nuclear physics research and much more. See our web page for more information.

I am an EE student and I need EPICS control app for my project. I am using Windows and can't figure out how i will download this. I have been looking for an answer for a week :( I hope this is the right subreddit. Thanks!

Hello. I am an accelerator physicist with a couple of years of experience.

I've already had an interview session with the recruiter. Then, they sent me an email saying that I will have a technical interview with the hiring manager. I've never had physics interviews before because my research center hired me directly from the university.

Can you please suggest what kind of questions I need to expect?

Thank you in advance.

The PIP II and ACORN projects are well over $1B, and they're staffing up for them. If anyone is interested, I recommend checking in on Fermilab's job board every so often over the next 6-12 months. I think jobs are opening up all the time. If you already have experience, reach out to someone, they may even make a position to suit you. Good luck!

I would love it if this sub was more active... it would be fun to have a space to nerd out with people about accelerators. What do people here want to see more of? Published papers? Project updates? Course materials for accelerator focused courses? Accelerator codes? Job offers/position descriptions? Device designs? Information on DOE project milestones?

Hey y'all, I love Discord and I thought it'd be cool if we had a community there as well. I took the liberty of creating a server, though let me know if another one already exists. Here is the invite:

https://discord.gg/J2Av5p4efk

There are fossils, specimens, organisms, documents, and artifacts located in places from which, for various reasons, they cannot or will not be moved. I understand that laser sources are more easily portable, but synchrotron sources have numerous advantages. One is that they can support numerous workstations simultaneously for high throughput. Can a modular synchrotron fit into a handful of standard shipping containers, assembled, operated, dissassembled, and moved from site to site as a caravan of scientific and cultural discovery?

Hello, I saw a video about a Russian man, He accidentally stuck his head in the path of the accelerator, I was wondering, Do accelerators make noise? It seemed like they would be very loud, So I was curious about how he didn't notice the accelerator was on.

I’m a 23 yo male and recently became a cyclotron operator. Should I be worried about my sperm count/fertility being around ionizing radiation consistently? I try to limit my dose of course but I can’t help but wonder if the chronic exposure may be harmful and what I can do about it.