Physics & Materials Science
General Physics
- The
2002 CODATA Recommended Values for the Fundamental Physical Constants
2002 set of self-consistent values of the basic constants and conversion
factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data for
Science and Technology (CODATA).
- Center for History of Physics
From the American Institute of Physics. Includes searchable Visual Archives
of 25,000 historical visual materials.
- Equations in physics
-- Contents
Written at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level; it is intended to
be a short reference for anyone who works with physics and often needs to
look up equations.
- Eric Weisstein's World
of Physics
Alphabetical index created by Eric Weisstein of physics definitions, derivations,
equations, formulas, and figures.
- Landolt-Börnstein Online
Landolt-Bornstein is a comprehensive collection of critical assessed data
from all fields of physics, physical chemistry, geophysics, material technology
and engineering and biophysics. LB online includes the complete Tables of
Contents of all Landolt-Bornstein volumes published. Full text (PDF) searchable
of about 300 sub volumes of the the LB new series - 140,000 printed pages
published since 1961.
- Magnetic Resonance
Periodic Table
Features include integrated support of WebElement, and a Larmor
Frequency Calculator.
- Materials Properties Locator Database
Database created by the Science and Engineering Library of the State University
of NY at Buffalo; matches properties data (mechanical, physical, electrical,
thermal, etc.) with reference books.
- Nobel Laureates
in Physics 1901- present
This page is a service of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Library.
Includes brief biographical information on the laureates and relevant hyperlinks.
- Physical Reference
Data NIST
From the NIST Physics Laboratory. Several online databases in the areas
of physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data, and x-ray
and gamma-ray data.
- Physics and Astromomy Classification
Scheme (AIP)
From the American Institute of Physics.
- PhysLINK - The Ultimate Physics Resource
Advertiser supported; includes job listings, links to physics departments
all over the world, information on physics books, journals, societies and
software.
- PhysicsWeb-resources
Sponsored by the Institute of Physics; includes a searchable database of
physics resources. You can search by county, by specific field of interest
and by organization. Includes physics conference listings, the physics calendar
and physics jobs.
- The
Plasma Physics Formulary
"The NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) Plasma Formulary has been the
mini-Bible of plasma physicists for the past 20 years. It is an eclectic
compilation of mathematical and scientific formulas, and contains physical
parameters pertinent to a variety of plasma regimes, ranging from laboratory
devices to astrophysical objects."
- Preprints/E-Print Servers
- WebElements - The
Periodic Table on the World-Wide Web
A periodic table on the web. Includes atomic number, atomic weight, CAS
number, property data and compound information.
Accelerator/High Energy/Particle Physics
- Accelerator Conference Proceedings
The Joint Accelerator Conference website for the Asian, European and American
Particle Accelerator Conferences, as well as the CYCLOTRONS, DIPAC, ICALEPCS
and LINAC conferences.
- Beam Physics and Accelerator
Technology - WWW Virtual Library
List of links to beam physics sources.
- DOE Office of High Energy
Physics
Home page for the U.S. Department of Energy's High Energy Physics Program.
- High Energy Physics Information Center
"An information server that contains links to various HEP Resources
throughout the world." Maintained by the HEP Network Resource Center
(HEPNRC).
- Online
Particle Physics Information
This guide organizes online catalogs, databases, directories, WWW pages,
etc., that are of value to the particle physics community. Hosted by the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
- Particle
Accelerators Around the World
List maintained by the particle accelerator group at Bonn University.
- Particle Data Group
"The PDG is an international collaboration that reviews Particle Physics
and related areas of Astrophysics, and compiles/analyzes data on particle
properties." Includes the Review of Particle Physics.
- Preprints/E-Print Servers
Links to e-print servers relevant to ANL research.
- The U.S. Particle Accelerator School
The US Particle Accelerator School provides educational programs in the
field of beams and their associated accelerator technologies. It is run
by a consortium of 10 national labs.
Atmospheric Physics/Meteorology
Atomic Physics
- Atomic Physics on
Internet -- Weizmann Institute
A link to atomic, molecular and plasma physics resources, including servers
(arranged by country), databases, and conferences. Also includes a who's
who directory and a jobs listing.
- Laser Physics in UMEA
(UMEA University, Sweden)
Links to Interesting Activities in the Fields of Laser, Quantum, Atomic,
and Molecular Physics. Includes Research Groups, Organizations and Vendors.
- TOPbase User's Guide --
Opacity Project Atomic Data Database
TOPbase is a read-only database system specially designed for general use
of the large volume of accurate atomic data, generated by the research groups
involved in the Opacity Project.
Condensed Matter Physics
- Condensed Matter E-Prints
A subset of Los Alamos e-print archive at xxx under physics. Covers papers
since 1992. There is a titles/authors index. Subject classes include: materials
science, mesoscopic systems and quantum hall effect, soft condensed matter,
statistical mechanics, strongly correlated electrons, etc.
- ESS (European Spallation Source)
European Spallation Neutron Source, a next generation neutron source for
Europe. Includes introduction, history and technical study of ESS. A full
text publication: ESS Volume II - the Scientific Case can also be accessed
through this page.
- The European Neutron Scattering
Association
A good source to locate information about neutron scattering and related
topics in Europe. Contents include ENSA survey of the neutron community
and facilities, SEF/ENSA report on neutron scattering , and ENSA neutron
scattering software database.
- Magnetic Resonance
Periodic Table
A service provided by the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory and the
University of Illinois to the resonance community. This periodic table requires
a web client that supports HTML tables. A non-HTML table version is also
available. Features include integrated support of WebElement, and a Larmor
Frequency Calculator.
- Making Matter: the atomic
structure of Materials
These pages illustrate the 3D structures of inorganic materials in the Institute
Laue-Langevin's ICSD-for-WWW database, the inorganic crystal structure database
(access to a demo version is available to the externals). They were produced
by Marcus Hewat's 3D VRML structure drawing application xtal-3d. X-vrml
plug-in is required to view 3D VRML model.
- Neutron scattering
lengths and cross sections
A neutron properties table from NIST. All the data were taken from the special
section of the neutron scattering lengths and cross sections in Neutron
News, vol. 3, no. 3, 1992.
- Neutron Scattering Society
of America
Lists summer schools, workshops, and meetings in U.S. and overseas.
- Neutron scattering WWW pages
A searchable service provide by the IPNS of Argonne National Lab to the
international neutron scattering community. Contents include software and
announcements, some reference links, such as neutron scattering conversion
factors, chart of the nuclides, and so on.
- SNS (Spallation Neutron Source)
DOE's multi-laboratory project. Includes a detailed introduction to SNS,
technical specifications, a list of SNS partners and contacts.
Nuclear Physics
- Division
of Nuclear Physics/Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics/US DOE
The research facilities, major experiments and nuclear groups which are
operating under DOE auspices.
- The Gammasphere WorldWide Web Server
"GAMMASPHERE is a spectrometer of unparalleled detection sensitivity
to nuclear electromagnetic radiation." It is a national facility currently
housed at Argonne and concentrating on "research towards nuclei far
from stability."
- Glossary of Nuclear Science Terms
How is this glossary different from other nuclear science glossaries? First, it focuses on radioactive decay and then animated images have been created to illustrate nuclear decay. Animations are accurate enough to display conservation of charge, momentum, mass and energy.
- Lund Nuclear Data
Service
" This site mainly concentrates on nuclear structure data, radioactive
decay data and nuclear literature references."
- National Nuclear Data Center
"Provides information on neutron, charged-particle, and photonuclear
reactions, nuclear structure, and decay data." Center is funded by
DOE.
- Nuclear Experiment e-prints
Los Alamos archive at xxx for nuclear experiments e-prints.
- Nuclear Physics
Research Institutes and Accelerator Facilities
" Information sources for Nuclear Physics research institutes and accelerator.
This list is originally based on the HEP list, modified by adding nuclear
physics research institutes and universities." Maintained by RIKEN.
- Nuclear structure
and decay data: NuBase with the Q-value calculator
" NuBase is a compilation of ground and isomeric state properties for
all known nuclides. The Q-value calculator can be used to display mass data
from Audi-Wapstra's mass table and to calculate Q-values for nuclear reactions
and decay."
- Nuclear Theory e-prints
Los Alamos archive at xxx for nuclear theory e-prints.
- Software for Physicists
- Table of the Nuclides
Provides data on the physical properties (especially decay and cross-section)
of the nuclides.
- US Nuclear Data Program
Assembles, maintains, and disseminates a unified body of nuclear data used
to support basic nuclear research and a wide variety of nuclear applications.
DOE funded project. Offers subject, user, education and organization views
of the field.
Optics
- OpticsNet
Home page of the Optical Society of America. Includes optics news, job listings,
conference information.
- Optics.Org
Joint venture of SPIE and IOP to create a global resource for optics and
photonics. Includes Optics and Photonics Library, a searchable database
of over one million optics records, including SPIE papers. Database is searchable
by author, title words, abstract words and date.
- Photonics Online
"The Marketplace for Professionals in the Photonics Industry";
advertiser supported website for photonics industry news, events, and career
information.
- Photonics.com
Worldwide coverage of the photonics industry from Laurin Publishing. Includes
article summaries from Photonics Spectra, new product information
and the web version of the Photonics
Directory and the Photonics
Dictionary.
- SPIE Web
The International Society for Optical Engineering. Browse use SPIE
Proceedings by year or volume number; use InCite®,
SPIE's search service to find papers by author, title words, abstract words
or by publication date.
Superconductivity
- DOE Power - Superconductivity
A page from the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN), DOE.
Includes current highlights, program overview, fact sheets, and publications,
such as: "At the frontiers of science: superconductivity and its electric
power applications" in PDF.
- High Tc Update
A newsletter that provides rapid reliable access to international superconductor
research. It covers current issues as well as archival issues dating back
1992. Three versions are available: Word, PDF, and Text.
- High temperature superconductors
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Contains annual reports for ORNL's Superconducting Technology Program, and
a teacher's guide to superconductivity. Also included is a virtual poster
session called: "Superconductivity: creating the future today."
- Superconductivity
papers database in Japan
Database includes over 84,000 journal article citations on superconductivity
which appeared in 20 to 50 scientific journals after 1987. It contains:
high Tc, C60 related, organic conductors, non-oxide superconductors, and
theory.
- Texas Center for Superconductivity
at the University of Houston
The Research Programs section includes TCSUH Figures of Merit , which represent
some results that may be interest the HTS community. Those figures are in
PDF format and can be downloaded, viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
Synchrotrons
- 3 rd Generation Synchrotrons, 6-8
GeV:
Advanced Photon Source
APS
Located at Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago
under contract with the DOE.
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF
"The ESRF is a multinational research institute, presently associating
15 participating countries." Located in Grenoble, France.
SPring-8
Located in Harima Science Garden City, Japan. The Japan Synchrotron Radiation
Research Institute (JASRI) is responsible for the management, operation
and development of SPring-8.
- lightsources.org
"The international light source community, including the Advanced
Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, has launched the first
website dedicated to providing the media, general public, and scientific
community with the latest news and information about and from the world’s
accelerator-driven light sources (synchrotrons and free-electron lasers)
and about the science carried out by users of these facilities."
- Storage Ring
Synchrotron Radiation Sources
List of 1st , 2nd and 3rd generation synchrotron
sources worldwide compiled by SSRL.
X-Ray Physics
- BESAC
Panel on Novel, Coherent Light Sources
The Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) commissioned a panel
to study and report on scientific opportunities and technical challenges
for novel, coherent light sources. Includes the report (PDF format) released
by the committee (January 1999) and information about the panel.
- Center for X-Ray Optics
From the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(LBNL).
- DABAX DAtaBAse for X-Rays
from ESRF
"The DABAX database is a compilation of files with useful tables for
X-ray applications together with a collection of programs to access, visualize
and process these tables."
- Elastic
Photon-Atom Scattering
From the Lawrence Livermore Physics V Division. Includes anomalous scattering
factors, cross sections and angular dependence tables.
- EXAFS database
From the International XAFS Society; programs and subroutines for XAFS research
- Free Electron Laser
Research and Applications
Includes links to FEL operating facilities, FELs proposed and under development,
and FEL conference links.
- IUCr Crystallography
World Wide
Provides extensive coverage of current internet-based information on crystallography.
- LCLS: Linac Coherent
Light Source
The LCLS, a single-pass x-ray free electron laser (X-FEL), will be the world's
first hard x-ray laser, 10 billion times brighter than synchrotrons. The
LCLS is a multi-institutional collaboration involving SLAC, APS, BNL, LANL,
LLNL, and UCLA. Construction is expected to begin in 2006 at SLAC.
- Periodic Table
of the Elements - X-Ray Properties
Calculations are based on data compiled by W. H.McMaster et. al.
- X-Ray
and Gamma-Ray Data from NIST
Includes:
X-Ray
Attenuation and Absorption for Materials of Dosimetric Interest
from 1 keV to 20 MeV for Elements Z = 1 to 92 and 48 Additional Substances
XCOM:
Photon Cross Sections Database
to calculate photon cross sections for scattering, photoelectric absorption
and pair production, as well as total attenuation coefficients, for any
element, compound or mixture (Z 100), at energies from 1 keV to 100 GeV.
Bibliography of Photon Attenuation Measurements
This bibliography contains papers (1907-1995) reporting absolute measurements
of photon (XUV, x-ray, gamma-ray, bremsstrahlung) total interaction cross
sections or attenuation coefficients for the elements and some compounds
used in a variety of medical, industrial, defense, and scientific applications.
The energy range covered is from 10 eV to 13.5 GeV
X-Ray
Form Factor, Attenuation and Scattering Tabulation
The primary interactions of x-rays with isolated atoms from Z = 1 (hydrogen)
to Z = 92 (uranium) are described and computed within a self-consistent
Dirac-Hartree-Fock framework.
- X-Ray Absorption Coefficients
This is a program to calculate X-ray absorption coefficients, also edge
energies, fluorescence yield; MUCAL on the Web
- X-Ray Emmission
Lines
K-level and L-level emission lines in KeV.
The x-ray emission line energies as published by J. A. Bearden, in "X-Ray
Wavelengths," Rev. Mod. Phys. 39, (1967) p.78.
- X-Ray Interactions
with Matter
Includes atomic x-ray scattering factor files, x-ray properties of the elements,
a calculator for synchrotron bent magnet radiation and more; published by
the Center for X-Ray Optics at LBNL
- X-Ray WWW Server
Produced by the Department of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden. It
is the repository of the COREX database of atomic and molecular core edge
excitation oscillator strengths, the Henke atomic scattering factors, and
other information of interest to x-ray spectroscopists.
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