Feature Stories

RHIC run 12

Update From RHIC Run 12: One World Record, Three World Firsts

May 18, 2012

Run 12 at RHIC provides the world’s highest beam energy for polarized protons, uranium-uranium collisions, increasing luminosity for colliding uranium beams, and copper-gold collisions.

Matter at the dawn of time

RHIC Explores Matter at the Dawn of Time

May 14, 2012

Physicist Paul Sorensen, videographer Alex Reben, and writer Karen McNulty Walsh collaborated to produce this video on major discoveries at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as part of the Department of Energy's “Breakthrough” video series.

RHIC

Quirky Photos

April 23, 2012

Photographer Stanley Greenberg captures "Quirky Photos" at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

Anthony Baltz

Anthony Baltz Named Senior Scientist Emeritus, Honored at ‘Baltzfest’

April 20, 2012

Anthony Baltz is named Senior Scientist Emeritus and honored by colleagues at “Baltzfest,” a symposium of talks and reminiscences of his 40 years at BNL.

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Press Releases

RACF

MEDIA ADVISORY: Physicists Explore New Frontiers in Computing

May 17, 2012

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.

APS

Details of Hot Quark Soup, New Liquid Neutrino Detector, and Ultra-Bright Light Source

March 28, 2012

Brookhaven Lab highlights at the April 2012 meeting of the American Physical Society include answers to intriguing questions including: What was the universe like microseconds after the Big Bang? Can you catch an elusive neutrino in a watery liquid? What features will the world’s newest ultra-bright light source reveal?

Yasuyuki Akiba

Physicist Yasuyuki Akiba Receives the 2011 Nishina Memorial Prize

December 02, 2011

Yasuyuki Akiba, experimental group leader of the RIKEN BNL Research Center at BNL and vice chief scientist at the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Nishina Memorial Prize, given annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation since 1955 to young physicists for their achievements in the fields of atomic and subatomic physics.

RACF

RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility Team Hailed by DOE

October 27, 2011

Secretary’s Achievement Honor Award recognizes RACF staff’s dedication to managing vast amounts of data for large-scale global physics experiments.

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Steinberg

Peter Steinberg's Blog

Observations of a Brookhaven physicist and collaborator on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

QCD

QCD Matter Virtual Journal

A weekly digest of preprints and publications in the field of hot and dense QCD Matter, the Quark-Gluon-Plasma and Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

RHIC News

RHIC in the News

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge: Gene Van Buren
Village Beacon Record,  2/21/2012

Accounting for missing particles
RIKEN Research,  2/10/2012

DOE Funding Crunch Threatens Future of Only U.S. Collider Still Running
Science,  1/27/2012

LHC trials proton-lead collisions
physicsworld,  11/2/2011

Nuclear Physicist: This Is My Job
Popular Mechanics,  9/13/2011

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