Feature Stories

Chang-Jun Liu and Paul Sorensen

Meet Chang-Jun Liu and Paul Sorensen

February 09, 2012

Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) has granted tenure to 10 BNL scientists. The newly tenured scientists will be featured in the coming weeks. Today, find out about the contributions of the Biology Department’s Chang-Jun Liu and the Physics Department’s Paul Sorensen.

RHIC

RHIC Enters the Race for Run 12

January 09, 2012

A number of accelerator and detector upgrades will help RHIC physicists crank out the data as they strive for deeper understanding of the perfect liquid quark gluon plasma (QGP) and the source of proton spin.

QCDOC

Pioneering Supercomputer QCDOC Retires, Regenerates in ‘Next-Generation’ QCDCQ

October 31, 2011

After years of forefront calculations that shed light on much breakthrough physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and other vital physics, the retired giant supercomputer QCDOC, for quantum chromodynamics (QCD) on a chip, regenerates in the newest, vastly more powerful pioneering supercomputer, QCDCQ (QCD with chiral quarks).

Michiko Minty

‘Keeping RHIC’s Beam Tight and the Orbit Right’

September 21, 2011

Join Physicist Michiko Minty of the Collider Accelerator Department as she gives the 471st Brookhaven Lecture, titled “Keeping RHIC’s Beam Tight and the Orbit Right: Precision Control of Accelerating Beams,” today, September 21, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

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Press Releases

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.

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy and India Partner to Advance Accelerator and Particle Detector Research and Development

July 25, 2011

Agreement aims to expand research collaborations in superconducting radiofrequency accelerator technology, heavy ion physics, and particle detector development.

QCDOC

National Laboratories Offer Computing Time to Japanese Physicists in Wake of Earthquake

May 23, 2011

BNL, Fermilab, and JLab help Japanese collaborators continue research on interactions of quarks and gluons.

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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

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

Big Science: The Universe's Ten Most Epic Projects
Popular Science,  7/16/2011

Anti-Helium Produced
U.S. News,  4/25/2011

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