1. What would you do if you had one of the world’s most powerful x-ray sources in your backyard?
Prof. Sol M. Gruner, Director
Sol M. Gruner, Director

2. You Do!!
CHESS uses synchrotron radiation from CESR, an electron-positron storage ring buried 50 feet under the Cornell campus. The outline of CESR is shown superimposed on its site under Alumni Field. The brick building at 6:00 is Wilson Lab, which houses CHESS.

3. Layout of CHESS in Wilson Lab

4. Science at CHESS
New beamlines, call the G-line are being assembled by a Cornell faculty group, including Prof. Gruner, for graduate research.
The G1 station is of particular interest to the Biophysics Group for x-ray studies of
Biomaterials
Liquid Crystals
Membranes
Polymers
Liquids

5. Opportunities for grad students
Instrumentation Physics
X-ray optics
Beam line development
X-ray detectors
Sample stages and techniques
Materials Science
Development of new structural techniques
Time-resolved studies of dynamic materials
Biomaterials
X-ray Physics
Accelerator Physics
Laser Systems

6. Prototype ERL design by Dr. Ivan Bazarov
We are also developing a new kind of synchrotron machine which will provide coherent x-ray beams for experiments which have been impossible to date.
Prototype ERL design by Dr. Ivan Bazarov

7. ERL Flux and Brilliance

8. ERL Degeneracy & Coherent Fraction