Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
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- This is an article about the particle physics research facility. For other uses of CHESS, see Chess (disambiguation).
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) is a high-intensity high-energy X-ray light source supported by the National Science Foundation and located in Wilson Lab on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY.
The lab provides synchrotron radiation facilities for multidisciplinary scientific research, with a particular focus on protein crystallographic studies under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
[edit] History
CHESS was built between 1978 and 1980 as a synchrotron x-ray facility tied to the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) High Energy Physics program (sometimes referred to, and better known as, particle physics), which produces an electron energy of 5.5 GeV.[1]
"The original laboratory, CHESS West, included 3 instrumented beamlines [with] 6 independent experimental stations.
"The CHESS East laboratory was constructed during 1988-1989, adding 2 beam lines [...] and 4 instrumented experimental stations. CHESS East contains a biohazard level BL3 facility (built with funds from the NIH) [....]
"Construction began in 1999 for an addition to the facility" to provide a new beam line and three additional experimental stations. This station, commissioned in 2002, was "constructed with extensive toxic gas handling capabilities advancing the prospects for in-situ crystal growth experiments."[2]
Work performed at CHESS and at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory garnered a split of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Synchrotron radiation sources. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ CHESS Facility Description. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
- ^ 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Researcher Roderick MacKinnon. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
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