Brookhaven National Laboratory Tours
Tour Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Important Notes
- Some tours may visit active research facilities.
- Guests must wear long pants and flat, closed-toe shoes. Access may be restricted if proper attire is not worn.
- NSLS-II is posted a Controlled Area. As such, a TLD (thermoluminescent dosimeter) may be required at the time of this tour. The conference organizers will provide further guidance as needed. Please note, all visitors must be 16 years old to be permitted on the NSLS-II experimental floor.
- Tours are free-of-charge.
Facility Description
National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
NSLS-II is a state-of-the-art, 3 GeV electron storage ring designed to deliver world-leading intensity and brightness, and will produce x-rays more than 10,000 times brighter than the original NSLS. The facility offers scientific and industrial researchers an array of beamlines with x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light to enable discoveries in clean and affordable energy, high-temperature superconductivity, molecular electronics, and more.
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
RHIC is a world-class particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory where physicists are exploring the most fundamental forces and properties of matter and the early universe. RHIC accelerates beams of particles (e.g., the nuclei of heavy atoms such as gold) to nearly the speed of light, and smashes them together to recreate a state of matter thought to have existed immediately after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago.
Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
The CFN explores the unique properties of materials and processes at the nanoscale. The CFN is a user-oriented research center whose mission is to be an open facility for the nanoscience research community and advance the science of nanomaterials that address the nation's energy challenges.
Last Modified: October 29, 2021
