Customer-centric innovation is helping US manufacturer Kimball Physics to prosper in its specialist niche of ultrahigh-vacuum electron and ion optics Eyeing the horizon: Kimball Physics is active ...

Electron cyclotron resonance ion sources (ECRIS) are pivotal devices in contemporary accelerator science, renowned for their ability to generate intense beams of ions reliably. These sources employ ...

Pulsed testbed the CSRm ion storage ring in Lanzhou, China. (Courtesy: IMP) Physicists in the US and China have studied how a pulsed beam of electrons can be used to cool a beam of high-energy ions – ...

Accelerator physicists have demonstrated a groundbreaking technique using bunches of electrons to keep beams of particles cool at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)--a U.S. Department of ...

How do different materials react to the impact of ions? This is a question that plays an important role in many areas of research - for example in nuclear fusion research, when the walls of the fusion ...

For the first time researchers have used a transmission electron microscope -- the One Angstrom Microscope (OÅM) at the Department of Energy's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at ...

Ion channels, which allow potassium and sodium ions to flow in and out of cells, are crucial in neuronal 'firing' in the central nervous system and for brain and heart function. These channels use a ' ...

The committee will assess having an electron ion collider facility in the U.S. The committee will assess the scientific justification for a U.S. domestic electron ion collider facility, taking into ...