It mixes Jefferson Lab staff, start-up companies, and university researchers. FELs based on Jefferson Lab technology will advance basic science in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. They will aid military laser technology development. The DOE Strategic Simulation Initiative seeks to apply advances in high-performance computing to challenging scientific problems. A prototype system is currently running nuclear theory calculations.
Simulation can add a new dimension to scientists' theoretical and experimental work.
The lab's nuclear physics users will gain a new viewpoint on nuclear processes.