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Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade

By Guest PostAugust 3, 2013Scienceaccelerator technology, advance, berkeley lab, CERN, fermilab, gianluca sabb, higgs boson, high field quadrupole, high luminosity, hq02a, Large Hadron Collider, larp, lucio rossi, magnetic excitation, magnets, nb3sn, new us magnet, old dominion university, quench, superconducting quadrupole magnet, superconducting state, superconductor niobium tin

U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories – including Berkeley Lab – collaborate to build the new magnets CERN needs to increase LHC luminosity by an order of magnitude

The U.S. LHC Accelerator Program (LARP) has successfully tested a powerful superconducting quadrupole magnet that will play a key role in developing a new beam focusing system for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This advanced system, together with other major upgrades to be implemented over the next decade, will allow the LHC to produce 10 times more high-energy collisions than it was originally designed for.

Dubbed HQ02a, the latest in LARP’s series of High-Field Quadrupole magnets is wound with cables of the brittle but high-performance superconductor niobium tin (Nb₃Sn). Compared to the final-focus quadrupoles presently in place at the LHC, which are made with niobium titanium, HQ02a has a larger aperture and superconducting coils designed to operate at a higher magnetic field. In a recent test at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), HQ02a achieved all its challenging objectives. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: IBM Lights Up Silicon Chips to Tackle Big Data

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2012Technology100nm, advance, big data, breakthrough technology, cmos, computer chips, computing power, data traffic, detectors, electrical signals, fabrication line, future computing, ibm, information, john e kelly, manufacturing environment, modulators, nano photonics technology, network, optical components, optical data streams, semiconductor technology, servers, silicon chip, silicon nanophotonics, supercomputers, transmit, wavelength division multiplexers, wdm

• From the Lab to the Fab: Technology Breakthrough Demonstrates Feasibility of Silicon Nanophotonics for Chip Manufacturing
• Light Pulses Can Move Data at Blazing Speeds to Help Solve Bandwidth Limitations of Servers, Datacenters and Supercomputers
• After More Than a Decade of Research, Silicon Nanophotonics is Ready for Development of Commercial Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – 10 Dec 2012: IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. The breakthrough technology – called “silicon nanophotonics” – allows the integration of different optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using, for the first time, sub-100nm semiconductor technology.

Silicon nanophotonics takes advantage of pulses of light for communication and provides a super highway for large volumes of data to move at rapid speeds between computer chips in servers, large datacenters, and supercomputers, thus alleviating the limitations of congested data traffic and high-cost traditional interconnects. (more…)

Driver’s ed for Robots

By Guest PostOctober 31, 2012Scienceadvance, advanced institute, area, bio contaminated, christopher rasmussen, columbia university, cyber, delaware, disaster relief, drexel university, drive, earthquake, energy plant, georgia, herbert tanner, hybrid, indiana university, institute, ioannis poulakakis, japanese, korean, navigate environment, nuclear, ohio, phase 1, physical, polytechnic institute, purdue university, radioactive, robot, robotics technology, sensor network, state university, swarthmore college, system modeling, teach, Technology, tsunami, university, vehicle, worcester

UD joins research team teaching robots to respond in disaster emergencies

How do you teach a robot to get into vehicle and drive it? Three University of Delaware professors plan to figure it out by the end of next year.

Christopher Rasmussen, Ioannis Poulakakis and Herbert Tanner are part of a team competing in a new U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Challenge. The team, with members from 10 schools, led by Drexel University, is one of several groups worldwide working to advance robotics technology for disaster relief. (more…)

MU Students Gain Experience with Advanced Weather Tracking Technology

By Guest PostSeptember 29, 2012Education, Environment, Scienceadvance, atmospheric sciences, brett williams, bridge creek, columbia, data, doppler, dow, dow system, eric brewster, hinkson creek, jason hubbard, job market, kansas city, kayla flamm, map, measure, meteorology technology, missouri, mobile, neil fox, nicole hoban, North America, on, predicting storms, rainfall, raw data, sediment transport, severe, soil erosion, st. louis, stationary, storm research, student, tracking device, university, weather, weather radar, wheels

Students use tornado-chasing technology to research rain’s impact on stream

COLUMBIA, Mo. – With advances in meteorology technology, predicting storms is becoming easier than in the past. While most meteorology students learn about these new technologies in the classroom and don’t get a chance to use sophisticated equipment until they are on the job, a group of University of Missouri students were able to test a mobile weather tracking device, Doppler on Wheels (DOW), made famous by shows such as Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers.

The DOW visiting MU is one of a fleet of radar trucks maintained by the Center for Severe Storm Research. Each radar truck is mounted with a Doppler weather radar dish. The fleet also consists of a support vehicle and three trucks that deploy instruments to track weather patterns in tornadoes and hurricanes. One of the radar trucks was brought to MU so that students could learn about the technology first-hand. (more…)

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Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade

Made in IBM Labs: IBM Lights Up Silicon Chips to Tackle Big Data

Driver’s ed for Robots

MU Students Gain Experience with Advanced Weather Tracking Technology