A Hall C Physicist?

Recently, I received a question based on where Claire and I work: "What is a Hall C physicist?"  I responded to the question, but since a picture is worth a thousand words, I decided to put one in.  The picture is an aerial photograph of the accelerator at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia.

The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (called CEBAF) is a re-circulating accelerator that uses superconducting radio-frequency cavities in the two straight linacs in the picture.  The machine can have an energy up to 6 GeV and 250muA in all.  The accelerator is able to deliver continuous electron beams to all three experimental halls simultaneously.

My thesis experiment, the G_zero experiment E00-006, and Claire's work on the J/Psi stuff, E03-008, are both in experimental Hall C.  I will talk about my work on my thesis experiment in another blog entry later on.

To find out more about Jefferson Lab, go to http://www.jlab.org/, and for more information on Hall C in particular, go to http://www.jlab.org/Hall-C/.

The building marked "FEL" in the photograph is the free electron laser facility.

Comments

[Caleb K. Carroll]

Sarah,

How've you been, I didn't know what you were up to now a days, got courious of old class mates, found this website. I've seen pictures of this lab in a number of my engineering classes. Sounds like you are gitting to do some neat things. Well email me some time. Also, sorry to hear about your dad, not to make light of it but it gets better, as you may know I lost my mom 1.5 years ago and in gets easier but there's always that part missing. Well I'll let you go. Take care try and keep in touch.

[Caleb K. Carroll]

sorry about that, thought that would go to your personal email.

[Sarah]

Hi Caleb!

It is great to hear from you! I am so glad that you found my quantum diary! I will make some time and email you in the next few days, so we can catch up on stuff.

With Hugs,

Sarah K