RHIC News Archive

October 26, 2009

Local artist Steve Miller uses striking imagery gathered from Brookhaven Lab in work that blends art, science, and technology.

October 07, 2009

The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference has chosen Brookhaven's Freddy Severino as one of 29 Luminary honorees. The honorees are Hispanic engineers and scientists who are recognized for their contributions to the Hispanic technical community as leaders and role models.

August 31, 2009

A quick Q&A with Kieran Boyle, a RHIC postdoc at Brookhaven Lab who looks at the tiny particles that make up protons.

August 25, 2009

With stimulus funds in hand, a collaboration of national laboratories, universities, and industry is testing a new material that could revolutionize the superconducting magnet field.

August 20, 2009

A new building extension at Brookhaven Lab is nearly ready to house computing equipment for huge quantities of data from experiments around the world.

August 03, 2009

On July 30, the Brookhaven community thanked Renaissance Technologies for their generosity in supporting research by re-dedicating two Laboratory roads, now known as Renaissance Road and Renaissance Circle. As part of the event, Brookhaven Lab employees, students, and guests held a “Collide-the-Ions” walk to benefit autism research.

July 29, 2009

A quick Q&A with Astrid Morreale, a RHIC postdoc at Brookhaven Lab who looks at small electrically charged particles called pions, which emerge from smashing two polarized proton beams together.

July 21, 2009

On Tuesday, July 21, join Michael Begelas as he gives the Sambamurti Memorial Lecture “Spotlight on the Gluon” in the Large Seminar Room of the Physics Dept., Bldg. 510. Refreshments at 3 p.m., lecture at 3:30 p.m.

July 17, 2009

Writer Lizzie Wade and photographer Nick Russell are blogging about their experiences as they travel across the U.S. visiting physics research facilities. Recently, they visited BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

July 14, 2009

Brookhaven scientists Jason Graetz and Paul Sorensen are among 100 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young research professionals.

July 07, 2009

Na Li, a graduate student at Huazhong Normal University who expects to receive her Ph.D. in physics in the spring of 2010, has been awarded the 2009 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize, consisting of a framed certificate and $1,000.

June 23, 2009

At the 2009 RHIC & AGS Users Meeting, more than 180 participants gathered to discuss the current funding situation, RHIC’s ninth run, and other issues for the user community.

June 04, 2009

Samios, former Laboratory Director and Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center at Brookhaven National Lab, will receive the 2009 Gian Carlo Wick Award for his outstanding contributions to particle physics.

May 12, 2009

A Brookhaven Lab physicist has developed a simpler, less-expensive design for delivering tumor-killing particle beams, an invention that could make precision particle therapy available to more cancer patients. The design is available for licensing and commercial development.

April 30, 2009

Physicist Satoshi Ozaki will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional for his leadership in building major science facilities at Brookhaven Lab, including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

April 15, 2009

In this YouTube video, Run Coordinator Mei Bai explains how and why RHIC physicists are exploring the puzzle of proton spin as they begin taking data during the 2009 RHIC run.

March 27, 2009

Physicists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are exploring the puzzle of proton spin as they begin taking data during the 2009 RHIC run. For the first time, RHIC is running at a record energy of 500 giga-electron volts (GeV) per collision, more than double the previous runs in which polarized proton beams collided at 200 GeV.

February 15, 2009

Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven Lab have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot and dense plasma "fluid" created to simulate conditions when the universe was about one millionths of a second old.

October 22, 2008

Physicist Paul Sorensen, a Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at Brookhaven Lab, will receive the 2009 George E. Valley Jr. Prize from the American Physical Society (APS). The prize is awarded biennially to recognize one individual in the early stages of his or her career for an outstanding scientific contribution to physics that is deemed to have significant potential for a dramatic impact in the field.

June 06, 2008

Participants in the 2008 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) Users' Meeting got a taste of the rich history of nuclear physics at Brookhaven, as well as a glimpse of the future directions the Lab might take in the field.

June 06, 2008

On Wednesday, May 28, the RHIC and AGS Users' Meeting featured a special, all-day symposium entitled "RHIC & Its Impact on Nuclear Science." The talks started with Gordon Baym, who gave a historical perspective of the RHIC heavy-ion program from its inception at a 1974 workshop held at Bear Mountain.

May 14, 2008

Professor Ki-Su Lee, President of Korea University, visited Brookhaven on May 13. Professor Lee came to Brookhaven Lab, a premier science research center, to get a first-hand look at PHENIX, a massive detector used for physics experiments on the early universe.

May 06, 2008

Accelerator physicist Rama Calaga is one of six new bloggers on a website dedicated to covering the activities of U.S. researchers at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In a few weeks, Calaga will also be one of the newest additions to BNL.

April 22, 2008

For many years, physicists believed that quarks and gluons would be freed from their particle prisons at high enough energies, like those that existed in the microseconds after the Big Bang. They set out to see if they could recreate such a situation at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.

February 06, 2008

Imagine trying to catch up to something moving close to the speed of light and sending ahead information in time to make mid-path flight corrections. Impossible? Not quite. Physicists at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have achieved this tricky task.

April 25, 2006

When atomic nuclei are smashed together at great speed, resulting temperatures exceed one trillion degrees. Scientists who study nuclear matter under extreme conditions have a particular interest in the properties of particles of light called photons. Using RHIC, Stefan Bathe has measured characteristics of photons to reveal data about the temperature and density of a nuclear collision.

April 23, 2006

Thanks to a series of machine upgrades, researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the newest and largest particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, are making progress in answering a fundamental question that has long puzzled physicists: Where do protons get their spin, a property of elementary particles as basic as mass and electrical charge?

April 23, 2006

At the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists have proposed a new way of studying the structure of matter down to a level never before observed. Their proposal is the "eRHIC" collider, a planned upgrade to Brookhaven's giant particle accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

April 20, 2006

With $5 million in new U.S. funding and a $2 million commitment from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rice University physicists are organizing the joint U.S.-Chinese production of an innovative set of detectors for one of the Department of Energy's (DOE) premier particle accelerators, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island, New York.

April 18, 2005

The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a giant atom "smasher" located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, say they've created a new state of hot, dense matter out of the quarks and gluons that are the basic particles of atomic nuclei, but it is a state quite different and even more remarkable than had been predicted.

March 15, 2005

Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem -- some of the reactions they are getting don't mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.

January 12, 2005

Scientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of matter not seen since the Big Bang begin employing a new experimental probe, collisions between two beams of copper ions.

May 05, 2004

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven has established a new machine record for heavy ion luminosity, well above its previous performance. Luminosity is an extremely important measure of a colliding-beam accelerator's performance.