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The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility will receive $75 million in economic stimulus funds, including $65 million to speed up construction of a more powerful electron beam,
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Doubling the beam's energy will enable physicists to advance their knowledge of nuclear and particle physics,
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Physicists have been puzzled by quarks because these fundamental particles are never found alone, Allison Lung, deputy project manager for this endeavor,
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With a more powerful electron beam and expanded facilities at Jefferson Lab,
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The stimulus money will generate about 150 local jobs at the laboratory, Sen s. Jim Webb and Mark Warner said in a joint statement. The lab currently employs 650.
The project, Lung said, will create about 50 permanent positions for engineers, designers, technicians and doctorate-level scientists. The remaining jobs will involve temporary work to be done by technicians, engineers, designers and construction workers. A dozen job openings already have been posted, she said.
Work on the lab facilities is scheduled to begin this spring and take 5-12 years. The $310 million project calls for construction of a fourth experimental hall, a 250-foot extension to the lab's underground accelerator tunnel, and new roads and utilities.
The money came from $1.2 billion of stimulus funds allocated to the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
Jefferson Lab, which began conducting research in 1995, is operated by a partnership between Computer Sciences Corp. and a consortium of 60 universities, including several in Hampton Roads.
Tom Shean, (757) 446-2379,
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