At the present time we are planning to hold this NSF-funded workshop in person at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  Attendees may apply for travel and lodging support. Click for more info.

Photocathodes are materials that emit electrons when illuminated by light, and are vital to the performance of some of the world’s most powerful particle accelerators. But due to poor crystalline properties, photocathodes have yet to realize their full potential. Cornell researchers are addressing this limitation.

Three professors in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS): Kyle Shen, Kin Fai Mak and Lawrence Gibbons.

The muon is a tiny particle, but it has the giant potential to upend our understanding of the subatomic world and reveal an undiscovered type of fundamental physics.