Although the $310 million accelerator upgrade that is under way now at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News is not expected to be completed until 2014, hundreds of physicists - including 13 from Old Dominion - have already queued up to make good use of the facility's power boost.

ODU physicists also played a key role in producing a new, 65-page report that outlines just what the upgrade could mean for nuclear and particle physics research...

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