The advent of flattening filter free (FFF) photon beam radiotherapy marks a significant evolution in external beam treatments. By removing the traditional flattening filter from linear accelerators, ...

Photon beams have long served as a precise probe into the subatomic world, offering unique insights into the structure and dynamics of nucleons. In photoproduction experiments, high-energy photons ...

The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), China’s flagship synchrotron radiation facility, has officially begun its joint-commissioning phase after successfully completing photon beam commissioning, the ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Romanian scientists have discovered a novel approach for the optical manipulation of macromolecules and biological cells. Their findings, published in EPJ B, stem from challenging the idea that ...

A new era of science is ready to begin. On June 17, 2024, the Advanced Photon Source at National Laboratory delivered a landmark set of X-ray light beams as part of a comprehensive and complex upgrade ...

LEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new set of electron beam measurements puts the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the top of the list of the world’s synchrotron X-ray research facilities. The ...

Photon purity is more than a technical detail. In photonic quantum computing, orderly single-photon streams are easier to ...

Tiny tubes of carbon that emit single photons from just one point along their length have been made in a deterministic manner ...

Researchers from the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

For quantum communication to work, light sources must emit photons one at a time, not in random bunches. Several materials ...