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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order March 10, 2010 :: Tracy M. Sonneborn Award and Provost Professors announced

January 11, 2010 :: New physics center, leadership announced for IU Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall

November 06, 2009 :: Tours of IUCF featured in Physics Open House Day

September 16, 2009 :: The Nuclear Theory Center (NTC) has merged with IUCF

September 11, 2009 :: IU Announces Cooperation Agreement between LENS and Tsinghua University

August 31, 2009 :: Indiana Medical Physics Alliance (IMPA) Symposium held at IUCF

July 01, 2009 :: Professor Mike Snow wins Faculty Research Support Program award to study neutron spin rotation

June 15, 2009 :: Pathfinder Summer Program students tour IUCF

May 06, 2009 :: Star crust 10 billion times stronger than steel, IU physicist finds

May 04, 2009 :: SESAME measures first neutrons

May 01, 2009 :: Roger Pynn receives Gunnar Randers Prize

April 14, 2009 :: IU, Crane recognize partnership to complete $9 million LINAC project

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ISAT Hall Home Tracy M. Sonneborn Award and Provost News Professors announced

By IU News Room March 10, 2010

Romualdo de Souza

De Souza is recognized by colleagues as bringing insight, ambition and energy to his area of science. His specialization is the field of nuclear reaction dynamics. He investigates nuclear reactions between heavy nuclei, from incident energies just above the Coulomb barrier to several hundred MeV/nucleon. He has made major contributions to the topic of strongly damped nuclear reactions, ternary fission and multi-fragmentation. His work on multi-fragmentation is widely recognized as some of the seminal work in this area.

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ISAT Hall Home New physics center, leadership announced News for IU Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall

By Indiana University Communications January 11, 2010

Indiana University today (Jan. 11) announced a restructuring at its IU Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall that creates a new physics research center and moves operational responsibility for the cyclotron to the Indiana University School of Medicine.

The new center, called the Indiana University Center for Matter and Beams (IUCMB), will be devoted to inquiry-based research in nuclear, condensed matter and accelerator-based physics.

The announcement was made by IU Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson and Robert B. Schnabel, interim vice president for research. The facility had previously operated under the office of the IU Bloomington Vice Provost for Research.

"The Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall has nearly doubled in size since the late 1990s, and as the breadth of the efforts has grown, it has become a challenge to operate within a single organizational structure," Hanson said. "We are therefore pleased to announce the creation of a new research center -- the IU Center for Matter and Beams -- that will allow the cyclotron´s two primary units, research and service, to continue to coexist in the same building in a mutually supportive manner."

Research involving faculty, students and research Dr. Peter Johnstone, chair of the IU School of staff that receives nearly $8 million annually in Medicine´s Department of Radiation Oncology, external support will continue through the new will assume responsibility over operations at the IUCMB while the cyclotron´s long tradition of IU Integrated Science and Accelerator service to the community by providing proton Technology Hall. beams for cancer treatment and neutrons for testing space electronics also will be maintained.

"Because of its intimate association with clinical cancer care, cyclotron operations will be shifting to the auspices of the School of Medicine´s Department of Radiation Oncology and affiliated with the IU Simon Cancer Center," Schnabel said. "We´re also pleased to announce that Dr. Peter Johnstone will assume responsibility for cyclotron operations, maintenance and clinical integration."

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Johnstone is chair of the IU School of Medicine´s Department of Radiation Oncology in Indianapolis and in 2008 was named president and chief executive officer of the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI), which is co-located at the Integrated Science and Accelerator Technology Hall. He also has oversight responsibility for radiation oncology services within Clarian Healthcare.

"The addition of cyclotron operations to the department´s portfolio will allow for seamless integrations between the complementary functions of proton beam production and delivery," Johnstone said. "The Bloomington facility is one of only six in the country providing proton therapy to cancer patients. It is an enormous asset to the entire Midwest, but especially for Hoosiers who otherwise would need to travel to Texas, Oklahoma, or one of the coasts for this unique type of therapy. I look forward to this opportunity to work with the cyclotron operations team as they join our patient care mission."

Dedicated in 1976, the facility houses particle accelerators that use large electromagnets to produce proton beams that can be used by MPRI for the irradiation of cancerous tumors, while the cyclotron´s Radiation Effects Research Program (RERP) uses neutrons created when protons bombard a beryllium target. The neutrons carry no electrical charge and can be moderated to penetrate materials while remaining sensitive to the respective material´s molecular structure, allowing scientists to analyze the effects of radiation of materials used in space.

"The new IU Center for Matter and Beams carries forward ISAT Hall´s outstanding research programs in nuclear science, condensed matter physics and accelerator physics. Since its mission will focus exclusively on basic research, IUCMB can provide support that is more finely tuned to meet the needs of researchers than ISAT Hall with its broader responsibilities was able to," noted ISAT Hall director and physics professor James Musser. "The accelerator-based facilities supported under IUCMB provide those researchers with capabilities that are absolutely unique in a university setting, and I expect great things from IUCMB in the future."

The restructuring will take place immediately and will necessitate a workforce reduction of about 15 percent of the current staff of about 130 employees. IU human resources professionals will provide support toward finding employment elsewhere within the university to those no longer assigned within the two operating units.

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November 6, 2009

On Saturday, October 31, 2009 more than 120 science enthusiasts of all ages toured IUCF and the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI) as part of the activities offered at the annual Indiana University Physics and Astronomy Open House. Middle and high school students, teachers and families from across the state of Indiana attended lectures, and enjoyed "hands-on" science in Swain West throughout the morning, and scheduled tours of IUCF and MPRI were offered for adults and students over the age of 13.

Dr. Ed Stephenson welcomed each tour group to IUCF and gave a brief presentation on the current projects under way at the facility. The tour groups, led by IUCF student and staff volunteers, started their tours at the Main Control Room, the "heart" of the facility where all of the accelerators and electrical systems are monitored 24/7, and then toured the Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS) area and the Radiation Effects Research Program (RERP) rooms. The groups also toured the Main Stage Accelerator vault to see the cyclotron – the huge magnets which accelerate hydrogen atoms to just under the speed of light to generate the protons used in many of the research programs. Dr. Ed Stephenson gives an overview of IUCF’s The final stop on the tour was the Midwest Proton projects to the Open House tour groups. Radiation Institute, which provides proton radiotherapy for cancer treatments. Completed in 2007, MPRI has three treatment rooms, including two massive gantries that can rotate 360° around a patient to deliver proton radiotherapy with pin- point precision from any angle.

Pre-arranged tours of IUCF are available for individuals and groups. Contact IUCF at (812) 855-9365 for details.

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ISAT Hall Home The Nuclear Theory Center (NTC) has News merged with IUCF

September 16, 2009

IUCF Director, Jim Musser, has announced that the Nuclear Theory Center (NTC) has merged with the IUCF organization under the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) and may now receive technical support for their activities through IUCF. NTC activities will continue to be managed by Director Chuck Horowitz, who will serve as an Associate Director of IUCF. NTC members will receive the same support from IUCF as other IUCF-affiliated scientists, including travel, IT, grant preparation and submission, account monitoring, purchasing and other support. Jim Musser stated that he believes the merging of administrative support for the two organizations will result in substantial efficiencies and raise the general level of support for all. A warm welcome is extended to all NTC members.

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ISAT Hall Home IU Announces Cooperation Agreement News between LENS and Tsinghua University

September 11, 2009

The Office of the Vice President for International Affairs at Indiana University has announced "an Agreement of Friendship and Cooperation between Tsinghua University and Indiana University," starting on July 31, 2009, for two years. The Low-Energy Neutron Source (LENS) and the Advanced Electron Photon Accelerator (ALPHA) at Indiana University and the Hadron Application and Technology Center (HATC) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, plan to cooperate in order to advance mutual interests in the development of compact neutron and photon sources. Prof. Paul Sokol is the point of contact for IU and Prof. Jei Wei is the point of contact for Tsinghua. The agreement will allow the exchange of graduate students, postdocs and faculty. In addition, summer schools for graduate students will be held yearly with the location alternating between Bloomington and Beijing. The first school is planned for summer 2010 at LENS.

Prof. Paul Sokol and Prof. Dave Baxter of IUCF’s LENS group traveled to Beijing in June 2009 to speak at a workshop on Compact Pulsed Hadron Sources (CPHS09), and to discuss cooperation between the two universities. Dr Chun Loong and Dr Zhiyu Guo of Tsinghua University paid reciprocal visits to IUCF in the summer.

The cooperative agreement with Tsinghua is part of continuing research, educational and outreach programs of the LENS and ALPHA faculty. The LENS faculty currently support five graduate students and three post doctoral fellows in neutron scattering projects utilizing the Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) instrument and the polarized neutron Relectometer (SESAME). This summer the LENS group also mentored several undergraduate students in research projects through the Physics Department Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. The ALPHA faculty currently support six graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow with research interest in advanced accelerator design and Inverse Compton Scattering.

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ISAT Hall Home Indiana Medical Physics Alliance (IMPA) News Symposium held at IUCF

August 31, 2009

The second Indiana Medical Physics Alliance (IMPA) Symposium was held in Bloomington, Indiana, on Saturday, August 29. The symposium featured research presented by students, faculty, clinicians and scientists from the Indiana University Department of Physics and the Cyclotron Facility (IUCF), the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI), the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) departments of Radiation Oncology and Radiology, and the Purdue University School of Health Sciences Medical Physics Program. The Participants at the IMPA Symposium listen director of IUCF, Jim Musser, welcomed twelve intently to Dr. Chee-Wai Cheng (MPRI) as he speakers and fifty attendees to this assembly, describes his research concerning the quality the second symposium in a continuing series of assurance of treatment planning dose volume meetings intended to exchange cutting edge histogram analysis. research results and improve networking among the affiliated members of the alliance. The four sessions: Technology Development, Clinical Applications, Radiation Biology and Associated Effects, were moderated by Susan Klein of IUB, Rob Stewart of Purdue, Colleen DesRosiers and Phil Dittmer of IUSM respectively. Included in the program were tours of the Proton Therapy System and MPRI, and a workshop on distance learning through course sharing lead by Amber Marks of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) http://www.cic.net/Home.aspx.

The IMPA is a medical physics educational alliance that provides a didactic curriculum in medical physics shared by the three campuses: West Lafayette, Indianapolis and Bloomington, through the CIC CourseShare facility. Students gain clinical training at the Radiation Oncology Department, Indiana University Hospital and through the Imaging Sciences program of the Department of Radiology. Currently, Purdue awards masters and doctoral degrees in medical physics. Indiana University offers undergraduate courses through the Applied Physics track of the Bachelor of Science in Physics and anticipates offering a Master of Science in Medical Physics beginning in 2010. Research, a required component of all three programs, is unified Draik Hecksel, a Purdue doctoral and strengthened through the IMPA symposium series. student performing research at MPRI, explains his analysis of This symposium was organized by Susan Klein (IUCF), Rob neutron production resulting from Stewart (Purdue), Colleen DesRosiers (IUSM Radiation proton scattering during therapy. Oncology) and Gary Hutchins (IUSM Radiology).

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ISAT Hall Home Professor Mike Snow wins Faculty News Research Support Program award to study neutron spin rotation

July 1, 2009

Dr. Mike Snow of the Department of Physics and IUCF has received an award from the Indiana University Office of the Vice Provost for Research to develop a high-precision neutron spin rotation facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research in Gaithersburg, MD. This facility will build upon his laboratory´s recent search for parity-odd neutron spin rotation in liquid helium, which is the most sensitive measurement of its type ever performed, and make possible future experiments in helium, deuterium, and hydrogen targets. This accuracy is expected to be enough to see clearly the effects of quark-quark weak interactions in these systems for the first time. In addition, the same apparatus can be modified to conduct sensitive searches for possible new weak spin-dependent forces between neutrons and matter with ranges in the micron to Angstrom region. This facility will help put the IU nuclear Professor Mike Snow. physics experimental group in a strong position to take full advantage of the new science made possible by NIST´s construction of one of the most intense slow neutron beam for fundamental physics with neutrons in the world, and would further build upon the several existing IU/NIST collaborations in neutron physics and scattering.

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By Garfield Warren June 15, 2009

On June 15, 2009, IUCF and LENS hosted one hundred and twenty Pathfinder students on a half-day visit to the facility. The Indiana University Office of Community and School Partnership annually sponsor Pathfinders Summer Programs for Indiana Middle School Students. These summer camps are designed to expose, motivate and prepare students for college. This summer the Pathfinder students had an opportunity to visit IUCF. The students were treated to a “Question and Answer” session in the North Conference room highlighted with a few demonstrations. In addition, the Pathfinder students had an opportunity to learn about and tour IUCF’s Control Room, the new Advanced Linac Electron-Photon facility (ALPHA), the Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) area, and the Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS) project. Many of students appeared to be intrigued by the research and science conducted at the facility. By exposing students early to educational and research opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, IUCF helps inspire our youth to continue to lead the world in scientific innovation and creativity.

Garfield Warren explains light Back to News scattering and diffraction with Index his miniature liquid crystal display.

Paul Sokol demonstrates some properties of light. Light may be used to probe material and determine structure.

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ISAT Hall Home Star crust 10 billion times stronger than News steel, IU physicist finds

By Steve Chaplin, Indiana University Communications May 6, 2009

Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth´s strongest metal alloys.

Charles Horowitz, a professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences´ Department of Physics, came to the conclusion after large-scale molecular dynamics computer simulations were conducted at Indiana University and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The research will appear Friday (May 8) in Physical Review Letters.

Exhibiting extreme gravity while rotating as fast as 700 times per second, neutron stars are massive stars that collapsed once their cores ceased nuclear fusion and energy production. The only things more dense are black holes, as a teaspoonful of neutron star matter would weigh about 100 million tons.

Scientists want to understand the structure of neutron stars, in Charles Horowitz part, because surface irregularities, or mountains, in the crust could radiate gravitational waves and in turn may create ripples in space-time. Understanding how high a mountain might become before collapsing from the neutron star´s gravity, or estimating the crust´s breaking strain, also has implications for better understanding star quakes or magnetar giant flares.

"We modeled a small region of the neutron star crust by following the individual motions of up to 12 million particles," Horowitz said of the work conducted through IU´s Nuclear Theory Center in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. "We then calculated how the crust deforms and eventually breaks under the extreme weight of a neutron star mountain."

Performed on a large computer cluster at Los Alamos National Laboratory and built upon smaller versions created on special-purpose molecular dynamics computer hardware at IU, the simulations identified a neutron star crust that far exceeded the strength of any material known on earth.

The crust could be so strong as to be able to elicit gravitational waves that could not only limit the spin periods of some stars, but that could also be detected by high-resolution telescopes called interferometers, the modeling found. An online version of the research paper, "The breaking strain of neutron star crust and gravitational waves," can be found at http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0904/0904.1986v1.pdf.

"The maximum possible size of these mountains depends on the breaking strain of the neutron star crust," Horowitz said. "The large breaking strain that we find should support mountains on rapidly rotating neutron stars large enough to efficiently radiate gravitational waves."

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Because of the intense pressure found on neutron stars, structural flaws and impurities that weaken things like rocks and steel are less likely to strain the crystals that form during the nucleosynthesis that occurs to form neutron star crust. Squeezed together by gravitational force, the crust can withstand a breaking strain 10 billion times the pressure it would take to snap steel.

Earlier this year, Horowitz was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, the preeminent organization of physicists in the United States, for his contribution to research in dense nuclear matter. His most recent work on neutron stars was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy and through Shared University Research Grants from IBM to IU. Working with Horowitz were Don Berry, a principal systems analyst with the High Performance Applications Group in University Information Technology Services at Indiana University, and Kai Kadau at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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ISAT Hall Home SESAME measures first neutrons News By Paul Stonaha May 4, 2009

The newest LENS beamline, dubbed SESAME (Spin Echo Scattering Angle Measurement), measured its first neutrons on April 21, 2009. Started in the summer of 2006, this beamline has been the vision of IU professor Roger Pynn at IUCF. SESAME will use polarized neutrons to probe in-plane correlations on solid and liquid samples. The process relies upon precise magnetic fields to encode the scattering angle of neutrons into the final polarization of the beam. A 3He analyzer that is currently being designed and built by Dr. Mike Snow, also of IUCF, will be used as a polarizer filter for SESAME.

Several experiments at national labs over the past three years have provided proof-of-principle results for SESAME. Pictured here is a cartoon of neutrons The most recent experiments were performed at the NIST scattering off a biological membrane. Center for Neutron Research and the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, in which neutron reflectivity was carried out on a nanopatterned silicon stamp. The results have been confirmed through theoretical calculations, and provide a basis for analysis of future experiments on more complicated structures, such as biomembranes and block copolymers.

SESAME is a neutron scattering technique for probing nanometer-to micron-scale correlations of planer structure of a material. Pictured above is a cartoon of neutrons scattering off a biological membrane. SESAME will provide scientists with a method to ensure a high degree of in-plane uniformity in nanoscale materials.

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ISAT Hall Home Roger Pynn receives Gunnar Randers News Prize

May 1, 2009

Roger Pynn has been awarded the prestigious Gunnar Randers Research Prize. The prize was presented to him by King Harald V of Norway at a ceremony at the Institute for Energy Technology in Kjeller, Norway, on April 20, 2009. The Gunnar Randers Research Prize was established in 2001, and is awarded every second year in recognition of outstanding work in condensed matter physics by Norwegians or persons connected with Norwegian research. Roger Pynn was awarded the prize for his pioneering work in the development of new neutron scattering methods and applications within the field of advanced materials science. The international prize selection committee’s His Majesty King Harald V of Norway (left) commendation noted that Prof. Pynn "has presents the Gunnar Randers Prize to Roger documented the most outstanding professional Pynn quality, and his work has led to increased (photo: Einar Madsen, IFE) fundamental understanding within the areas of complex fluids, bio molecular systems and magnetic structures. He is also a brilliant communicator with profound insight in research political questions."

At the ceremony, which was attended by many dignitaries from the government and scientific world, Prof. Pynn received the prize of 100,000NOK, plus a work of art by Kåre Tveter. In his acceptance speech, Pynn acknowledged the debt he owed to the mentoring of Dr Tormod Riste while he was a postdoc in Norway and encouraged the Norwegian authorities to put their weight behind efforts to bring the European Spallation Source to Lund in Sweden. Following the ceremony he gave a public lecture entitled "Energy, Information, Geilo Schools and Neutron Scattering—Tieing together some loose ends." I was really pleased that so many of my old colleagues from the early days were able to attend the ceremony," Pynn said. "The Norwegians have a great opportunity to use their oil wealth to make a major international impact in basic research, and they are especially concerned to make that impact in areas of renewable energy. After the prize ceremony, King Harald opened a new photovoltaics lab at IFE, which is part of that commitment."

Roger Pynn was born in England, and obtained his doctorate degree from Cambridge University. He spent two years as a post doctoral researcher at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in the 1970s, and has maintained a close relationship with Norwegian researchers since then through his work at the Geilo Schools, a series of NATO Advanced Study Institutes that have been organized every other year since 1971. In addition to his work at IFE, Pynn has carried out neutron scattering experiments in Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Japan, France, Germany and the United States. He has worked in a variety of fields including structural phase transitions, low dimensional magnets, soft condensed matter and biology. In 1987 he became Director of Manual Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After a 13-year management career at Los Alamos, which included periods as the Laboratory´s Program Manager for Basic Energy Sciences and as Division

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ISAT Hall Home IU, Crane recognize partnership to News complete $9 million LINAC project

By Steve Chaplin, Indiana University Communications April 14, 2009

Indiana University and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center recognized the success of an ongoing partnership to enhance national security and advance research opportunities in life sciences, physics and other fields during a ceremony Monday (April 13) at IU′s Cyclotron Facility.

IU has received $7.83 million in collaboration with Crane since 2007 to design improvements and upgrade equipment on a linear accelerator (LINAC) that will be used at the Cyclotron to test the effects of radiation on Department of Defense space and missile systems.

A linear accelerator in use more than 20 years at Crane no longer meets modern technological standards.

As the new Advanced LINAC Facility (ALF) supports the Defense Department′s needs to ensure the survivability and reliability of space and IU physicist and LINAC principal investigator missile systems in the radiation environment Paul Sokol, left, IU Provost Karen Hanson and encountered in space, the project also will directly Crane commander Captain Charles LaSota support a variety of IU research initiatives with were among the speakers at Monday′s access to a high brightness, fast pulsed X-ray ceremony. source that can provide fluxes well in excess of those available in the most advanced university-based facilities.

"It′s a win-win project and an unbelievably important partnership," said IU Provost Karen Hanson. "And it clearly satisfies IU′s primary three-fold mission of providing opportunities for enhancing research, teaching and service."

IU researchers expect the facility to support development of innovations in the life sciences, including the rapidly expanding area of inquiry into nanobiological systems, and specifically, nano- and micro- fabrication to build devices for studying biosystems. The ability to organize matter in complex, communicative, non-equilibrium environments, across length scales from atoms to organisms, make biological systems the ultimate working example of nanotechnology.

The facility, which is expected to become fully operational in about two years, also will make important contributions to the study of energy related problems. The ALF will provide unique capabilities to study and possibly make critical contributions to new technologies addressing solar and biofuel energy generation, energy storage connected to nanotubes and hydrides, and energy systems like LED-based lighting designs.

A linear accelerator is an electrical device that accelerates subatomic particles. Most commonly used to deliver radiation treatments to cancer patients, the LINAC at the Cyclotron will deliver X-ray fluxes

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10,000 times greater than those available in the most advanced university-based facilities and, in turn, will allow for dynamic life science research like protein folding to be studied.

"This is a prime example of the value that can be added by collaborations between the university and other agencies," said IU physicist Paul Sokol, principal investigator on the project. "Crane will end up with the access to a world class testing facility, and IU will have world class research facilities."

All U.S. Defense space and missile systems are required to survive radiation effects found in space, and prompt dose rate effects also arise from nuclear weapons. LINACs are a fundamental tool used to characterize the response of electronics in these types of environments, said Crane commander Captain Charles LaSota.

"These are high reliability systems that have to operate perfectly the first time and every time," he said. "And it′s the men and women of Crane and here at IU that carry out this work that we rely on, and this tool will allow them to continue that work."

Federal support for the project began in 2007 with a $1.63 million appropriation, followed by $3 million in 2008 and $3.2 million in 2009. A congressional request for an appropriation of $1.17 million is currently pending for 2010.

U.S. Rep. Baron Hill said the project underscored Crane′s importance as an economic shareholder in the region.

"Crane is the second largest employer in Southern Indiana so it′s important we keep Crane here," he said. "We′ve had base closings all around the country, and we don′t want that to happen to Crane."

Sokol said the next phase of work on the LINAC will be the installation in coming weeks of four 17- ton magnets that will form the core of the storage ring for the accelerator.

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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order April 03, 2009 :: Michihiro Nagao receives Young Scientist Award from the Physical Society of Japan

March 17, 2009 :: Roger Pynn featured author in "McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2009"

February 16, 2009 :: First signals from Spiral Particle Detector observed

February 12, 2009 :: LENS reaches several milestones

October 27, 2008 :: Completion of LENS

September 24, 2008 :: ProCure awards IUCF $570,000 to construct a beam line for medical device testing

July 03, 2008 :: 70 years later, IU Cyclotron works to save lives

June 30, 2008 :: IUCF graduate student, Brian Page, receives Lindau Nobel Laureate Award

April 30, 2008 :: First patient treated in third treatment room at MPRI

April 22, 2008 :: Raymond L. Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science, to visit IUCF on April 24

March 31, 2008 :: LENS reaches target of 13MeV

February 13, 2008 :: IUCF participates in Life Sciences Day at Indiana State House

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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order February 05, 2008 :: Neutron Radiography project awarded $900,000 grant

December 07, 2007 :: IUCF completes construction on third MPRI treatment room

November 07, 2007 :: LENS produces first 1kW proton beam

September 04, 2007 :: Prof. Romualdo deSouza receives Glenn T. Seaborg Award

July 23, 2007 :: New IUCF Interim Director Appointed

May 31, 2007 :: Prof. Hans-Otto Meyer receives Humboldt Research Award

May 17, 2007 :: First Findings from MiniBooNE Experiment Resolve Neutrino Oscillation Question

March 28, 2007 :: MPRI treats first patient using robotic gantry system

February 23, 2007 :: Midwest Accelerator Physics Collaboration Meeting comes to IUCF again in 2007

January 20, 2007 :: Eighty-seventh PhD awarded for research at IUCF

January 03, 2007 :: IUCF receives FDA clearance for the Proton Therapy System

December 21, 2006 :: LENS produces first klystron-powered proton beam

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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order October 25, 2006 :: IUCF Moves High Energy Physics in a New Direction

October 09, 2006 :: Annual IUCF/MPRI Open House Tours attract more than 100 visitors

September 01, 2006 :: Signing Ceremony held for 510(k) FDA document submission for Proton Therapy Treatment System

June 28, 2006 :: IUCF LENS group featured at ACNS2006 Conference

June 20, 2006 :: IUCF hosts Eighth International Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering Conference (QENS2006)

April 17, 2006 :: IUCF team celebrates successful test of the Liquid Parahydrogen Target for the NPDGamma Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory

April 04, 2006 :: IUCF faculty member Roger Pynn elected President of the Neutron Scattering Society of America.

March 01, 2006 :: LENS facility runs for approximately one week

January 05, 2006 :: IUCF awarded $4.2 million in Federal funding

December 15, 2005 :: Matias L. Ochoada Scholarship Endowment Fund Established

November 11, 2005 :: Boy Scouts from Troop #131 tour IUCF

October 24, 2005 :: IUCF Director Emeritus, Dr. John Cameron, receives Distinguished Faculty Award

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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order October 14, 2005 :: Gallagher the Comedian visits IUCF

October 04, 2005 :: Tours of IUCF popular feature of IU Physics Department’s Annual Open House

September 15, 2005 :: IUCF welcomes three new faculty members

September 14, 2005 :: IUCF hosts international workshop on Probing Complex Fluid Membranes and Films with Neutron Spin-echo

July 28, 2005 :: IUCF hosts international workshop on Probing Complex Fluid Membranes and Films with Neutron Spin-echo

July 27, 2005 :: Work of former IUCF Professor Larry Langer on the Manhattan Project profiled

June 21, 2005 :: House of Representatives approves bill awarding $5.6 million to IUCF

April 26, 2005 :: LENS produces its first "cold" neutron beam

April 08, 2005 :: IUCF faculty member Prof. S.Y. Lee receives Humboldt Award

March 08, 2005 :: First Test of Neutron Radiation Effects

January 04, 2005 :: IUCF: 2004 in Review

December 15, 2004 :: First Neutron Beam produced by LENS!

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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order November 22, 2004 :: Plaque Marks Entry of IU into Oak Ridge Associated Universities

November 08, 2004 :: Shining STAR for IU Research

October 05, 2004 :: STAR Endcap Meeting held at IUCF

September 24, 2004 :: "little a" collaboration awarded NSF grant

August 23, 2004 :: Clear AFS Equipment Extraction

August 18, 2004 :: TR3 Gantry Assembled in Record Time!

August 18, 2004 :: Message from the Director, Paul Sokol

June 15, 2004 :: New Director for IUCF

June 13, 2004 :: Seeing Light from (a) STAR

April 05, 2004 :: STAR Endcap Approaching Completion

April 03, 2004 :: MPRI Treats First Patient

April 02, 2004 :: More Support for LENS

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ISAT Hall Home News Archives News Arranged in Chronological Order April 01, 2004 :: We're Now A Part of Oak Ridge Associated Universities

March 10, 2004 :: LENS Scavengers

August 01, 2003 :: Gantry Installation Begins

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