Brookhaven and the LHC

Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, in Switzerland, opens new avenues to explore some of the deepest mysteries of the Universe. In addition to serving as the U.S. host laboratory for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory plays multiple roles in this massive international undertaking, ranging from construction and project management to data storage and distribution.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Physicists Explore New Frontiers in Computing

More than 500 physicists and computational scientists from around the world meet to discuss the current state and future of high-energy and nuclear physics — and the evolutionary, or even revolutionary, development of computational tools essential to these fields.

The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, and Colliding Hadrons: Huh?

If you still don’t quite understand what is being said of elementary particles, fundamental interactions, the Standard Model, and of course, the elusive Higgs boson, don’t fret: Brookhaven Physicist Srini Rajagopalan can catch you up.

Design & Construction

Brookhaven scientists and engineers designed and constructed 20 of the 1,200 superconducting magnets for the LHC and built key parts of the ATLAS detector. More...

Computing Support

Brookhaven National Lab is the sole Tier-1 computing facility for ATLAS in the United States – and the largest ATLAS computing center worldwide . More...

Future Upgrades

Much of the work for the U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) uses Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) as a “test bed” for the beam-based development of devices destined for the LHC. More..

Other LHC Resources

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Brookhaven and ATLAS

Brookhaven physicists and engineers are participating in one of the most ambitious scientific projects in the world – constructing and helping to operate a machine the size of a seven-story building that will open new frontiers in the human pursuit of knowledge about elementary particles and their interactions. More...

ATLAS

One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE’s Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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