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Stanford Professor Zhi-Xun Shen is making a mark across a broad swath of scientific territory. Known by colleagues as "Z.-X.," Shen's interests run a gamut that includes photon science, the physics of quantum matter, spectroscopy and imaging techniques, as well as the physics of the very small and the very fast at the most extreme scales. Shen was appointed professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford and DOE's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) in 2000. He has made a pioneering career probing the secrets of superconductors as well as in the techniques used to study them. He is considered by many to have helped revolutionize the technique of Angle Resolved Photon Emission Spectroscopy, or ARPES, used to investigate the electronic structure of solids. Besides his Stanford and SSRL professorships, Shen is also director of the X-ray Laboratory for Advanced Materials, or XLAM, which, in addition to being a unit in Stanford Linear Accelerator Center 's Photon Science Directorate, links the intellectual resources in other Stanford schools and SLAC and fosters mutual collaboration in the DOE's Basic Energy Science research enterprise.
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Fermilab steering group proposes plan for leadershipThe Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the nation's primary laboratory for particle physics, has proposed a plan to maintain leadership for the laboratory and U.S. particle physics in the quest to discover the fundamental nature of the physical universe in the decades ahead.
Discoveries of revolutionary new physics of the universe will come from powerful next-generation particle accelerators. At CERN's LHC, U.S. physicists will join scientists worldwide in exploring the physics of the Terascale, the high-energy region where physicists believe they will find answers to key questions of 21st-century particle physics. To follow the LHC, physicists have proposed the International Linear Collider, a globally funded and operated accelerator to build on LHC results and illuminate Terascale science. With the help of other DOE laboratories http://www.energy.gov/researchfacilities.htm , Fermilab is working toward hosting the proposed ILC in the United States , maintaining the nation's leadership of frontier particle physics. Should events postpone the construction of the ILC, a Steering Group at Fermilab has developed a plan to keep the laboratory and particle physics in the United States on the pathway to discovery. Using ILC technology, and in collaboration with DOE and international laboratories, Fermilab would build an intensity-frontier accelerator at one percent of the ILC's length and combine it with existing Fermilab accelerators to create a new facility called Project X. Project X's intense particle beams would give Fermilab's scientific users a new way into the world of neutrinos and precision physics, where physicists expect to discover answers to compelling questions about the nature and origin of the universe. With its ILC technology, Project X would spur U.S industrialization and reduce costs of ILC components while advancing accelerator science for future applications in particle physics and beyond. Fermilab's plan would keep the laboratory and U.S. particle physics on the pathway to discovery both at the energy frontier with the ILC and in the domain of neutrinos and precision physics at the intensity frontier, the Steering Group's report said. Submitted by DOE's
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