Big things are expected out of the recently upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab, even if what exactly will be discovered by the 1,600 scientists using the facility is not yet known.
On Wednesday, many who supported the $338 million upgrade toured the facility and spoke at a dedication ceremony.
The upgrade tripled the operating energy of the facility, a user facility of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science — essentially, it is the most powerful microscope in the world for studying the atomic nucleus.
