Accelerators
News Releases

Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named Fellows of the American Physical Society
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Groundbreaking Cancer Therapy Clinical Trial with U.S. Department of Energy's Accelerator-Produced Actinium-225 Set to Begin this Summer
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Enters 25th and Final Run
Monday, March 24, 2025

MEDIA ADVISORY: First-of-its-kind Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) Takes Shape as Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Enters Final Run
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

MEDIA ADVISORY: Electron-Ion Collider Accelerator Collaboration Kicks Off May 21 at Premiere Physics Conference
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins Run 24
Monday, April 15, 2024

Electron-Ion Collider Set to Begin Long-Lead Procurements
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

MEDIA ADVISORY: Updates on the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at the April APS Meeting
Friday, March 29, 2024

Direct Photons Point to Positive Gluon Polarization
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Chemists Unravel Reaction Mechanism for Clean Energy Catalyst
Monday, May 15, 2023

Department of Energy Announces $8.6 Million for Research on Accelerator R&D for Nuclear Physics
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Luisella Lari Joins Brookhaven Lab as Electron-Ion Collider Project Manager
Monday, October 31, 2022

Three Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named Fellows of American Physical Society
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Ultrafast 'Camera' Captures Hidden Behavior of Potential 'Neuromorphic' Material
Monday, May 9, 2022

Start-up of 22nd Run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Monday, December 13, 2021

Wolfram Fischer Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department
Friday, July 16, 2021

RHIC Run 21: Pushing the Limits at the Lowest Collision Energy
Monday, January 25, 2021

Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

SuperKEKB Collider Achieves the World's Highest Luminosity
Friday, June 26, 2020

Brookhaven Lab Names Project Director for Electron-Ion Collider
Monday, June 8, 2020

Transformative 'Green' Accelerator Achieves World's First 8-pass Full Energy Recovery
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Department of Energy Selects Site for Electron-Ion Collider
Friday, January 10, 2020

20th Year of Particle Smashups Underway at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Monday, December 16, 2019

New Lens System for Brighter, Sharper Diffraction Images
Thursday, April 25, 2019

PubSci Science Café and Conversation: Big Bang Physics
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Startup Time for Ion Collisions Exploring the Phases of Nuclear Matter
Friday, January 4, 2019

PubSci Science Café and Conversation: Big Bang Physics
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Four Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named Fellows of American Physical Society
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

In Memoriam: Satoshi Ozaki
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Beam-Beam Compensation Scheme Doubles Proton-Proton Collision Rates at RHIC
Monday, January 4, 2016

LHC Luminosity Upgrade Project Moving to Next Phase
Thursday, October 29, 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY: Targeting Tumors: Ion Beam Accelerators Take Aim at Cancer
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Stony Brook Interdisciplinary Team Plays Lead Role in NASA 'Expedition' to Explore Space Virtually
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Receives Charles Hirsch Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Friday, February 22, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY: Physicists Explore New Frontiers in Computing
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Triveni Rao to be Honored at Asian American Celebration
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Brookhaven Physicists Team Up with Medical Industry to Build Advanced Cancer Therapy Accelerator
Monday, February 27, 2012

Groundbreaking Results Promise Smaller, Cheaper Therapy Machines that Could Revolutionise Cancer Treatment and More
Monday, January 9, 2012
Features

541st Brookhaven Lecture: EIC, Silent Interactions, Wakefields
Monday, September 15, 2025

Magnets with Potential to Zap Tumors in a Flash
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

2025 Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting Celebrates Past and Looks to the Future
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Prototyping the Next Generation
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Accelerator Experiments at RHIC Inform EIC Design
Friday, December 6, 2024

From First Light to New Heights: A Timeline of NSLS-II's History
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

From First Light to the Future
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

High-Voltage Gun Accelerates Electrons from Zero to 80 … Percent the Speed of Light
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Engineered to Perfection
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Thea Vijaya Kumar Coordinates Mechanical Cooling Systems for EIC
Monday, July 29, 2024

Welcoming a New Era of Discovery at the 2024 RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

ORNL, BNL Host International Particle Accelerator Conference in Nashville
Thursday, June 20, 2024

New Instrument to Measure High-energy Solar Particles as Part of NASA Mission
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

RHIC Run 24: Science Goals and Accelerator Advances
Monday, April 15, 2024

Meet Guimei Wang, NSLS-II Accelerator Coordination Manager & Problem-Solver
Friday, March 15, 2024

Argonne to Recycle Magnets From Advanced Photon Source in New Physics Experiment at Brookhaven
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Celebrating New Beginnings at RHIC and EIC
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Research on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for Nuclear Physics Accelerators and Detectors
Friday, August 18, 2023

533rd Brookhaven Lecture: 'Colliding Beams to Study Matter'
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

RHIC Gets Ready to Smash Gold Ions for Run 23
Monday, May 8, 2023

Brookhaven's Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi Awarded Prestigious NSF Early CAREER Grant
Monday, April 3, 2023

City Tech Students, Faculty Join Brookhaven Lab at 20th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Thursday, December 29, 2022

530th Brookhaven Lecture: Photocathode Guns for Electron Beams
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Fighting Cancer on Earth and in Space Using High-Energy Protons
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

529th Brookhaven Lecture: NSLS-II Today and Tomorrow
Friday, September 30, 2022

BLIP Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Monday, September 26, 2022

Particle Physicists Lay Out Future Goals at 'Snowmass' Meeting
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Meet Cliff Brutus: Mechanical Engineer, Project Manager, and Life-Long Learner
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical Engineer Helps Send Particle Beams Into RHIC
Monday, July 18, 2022

From RHIC to EIC: At the QCD Frontiers
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Meet Greg Fries, NSLS-II Accelerator Division Deputy Director for Projects
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

523rd Brookhaven Lecture: Ultrafast CO2 Lasers, Accelerators
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Developing the Next Generation of Particle Accelerator Talent
Monday, November 29, 2021

Successful RHIC Run 21 Completes Beam Energy Scan II
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Tri-Lab Effort Makes Strides Toward Increasing Supply of Ac-225
Thursday, November 18, 2021

How to Train Your Magnet
Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Accelerator Physicist Irina Petrushina Named Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Brookhaven Lab and Euclid Techlabs to Develop Coated Cathodes for Electron-Ion Collider
Monday, September 20, 2021

HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project Receives Approval to Move Full-speed-ahead
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

What is Luminosity?
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

A Window of Opportunity
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Experimenting with Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

EIC R&D Yields Energy-saving Accelerator Innovations
Friday, May 22, 2020

Happy 100th Birthday to Ernest Courant
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Three National Laboratories Achieve Record Magnetic Field for Accelerator Focusing Magnet
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Scientists 'Tune In' to Proton Spin Precession
Thursday, December 12, 2019

NSLS-II Celebrates its 5th Anniversary
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Innovative Accelerator Achieves Full Energy Recovery
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Electron Bunches Keep Ions Cool at RHIC
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

PubSci Explores the Building Blocks of Matter
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Brookhaven Delivers Innovative Magnets for New Energy-Recovery Accelerator
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Meet the Director: Mark Palmer, Accelerator Test Facility
Friday, November 9, 2018

Meet David Livoti: Radiofrequency Technician in Collider-Accelerator Department
Friday, August 31, 2018

Small Accelerator Promises Big Returns
Friday, March 16, 2018

Successful Test of Small-Scale Accelerator with Big Potential Impacts for Science and Medicine
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

New Devices to Control X-rays are Less Expensive, Faster to Make
Friday, August 11, 2017

Producing Radioisotopes for Medical Imaging and Disease Treatment
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

AGS Booster Celebrates a Quarter-Century of Service
Monday, June 27, 2016

Boosting Production of Radioisotopes for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Monday, April 4, 2016

First Magnet Girder for Prototype Cancer Therapy Accelerator Arrives for Testing
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

CERN and U.S. Increase Cooperation
Monday, December 21, 2015

Producing Cold Electron Beams to Increase Collision Rates at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Monday, December 7, 2015

Upgrades to ATLAS and LHC Magnets for Run 2 and Beyond
Monday, July 6, 2015

506th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 6/24: 'NSLS-II: The New Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven Lab'
Friday, June 19, 2015

Brookhaven Lab's Accelerator Test Facility Named a DOE Office of Science User Facility
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Sergey Belomestnykh Receives Particle Accelerator Science & Technology Award
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Coding Controls for Collider Computers: Meet Prerana Kankiya
Friday, January 23, 2015

Infographic: RHIC Cooks Up a Quantum Tempest in a Teacup
Monday, November 10, 2014

NASA Space Radiation School is Totally Radical
Monday, September 22, 2014

New Laser Ion Source for Brookhaven Accelerators Exceeds Expectations
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Yun Luo of Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department Granted Tenure
Friday, June 20, 2014

Igor Pogorelsky of Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department Granted Tenure
Friday, June 20, 2014

Physicists at Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference Look Forward
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Computer-Assisted Accelerator Design
Monday, April 21, 2014

Accelerator Applications for Cancer Therapy Highlighted in Nature Article
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Particle Beam Cancer Therapy: The Promise and Challenges
Monday, March 3, 2014

Backup Magnets Ready to Ship to LHC
Monday, September 30, 2013

Supercomputing the Transition from Ordinary to Extraordinary Forms of Matter
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Mastering Microbunching for Linac-based Light Sources
Monday, August 19, 2013

The Big Move: A Last Look at the Muon g-2 Ring's Departure from Brookhaven
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Fermilab
Monday, July 29, 2013

Big Bang? More like Big Ring
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Women @ Energy: Christina Swinson
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

BNL's Erdong Wang Named a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow for Work in Accelerator Science
Monday, April 15, 2013

Accelerating Particles Accelerates Science — With Big Benefits for Society
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Suresh Srivastava New President-Elect of World Association of Radiopharmaceutical Molecular Therapy
Monday, March 4, 2013

On the Mark and Set for RHIC Run 13
Monday, February 11, 2013

481st Brookhaven Lecture, 11/14
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Superconducting Magnet Researchers Develop Exciting New HTS Technology
Friday, October 5, 2012

High Energy Physics Lessons in Africa
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Next Generation of Superconducting Magnets
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Owl Shift at STAR and PHENIX
Friday, June 15, 2012

The Glue that Binds Us All
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

eRHIC: Colliding Electrons with Ions at RHIC
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

477th Brookhaven Lecture Today, 4/25: Supercomputers and Mathematical Models for Multiphysics Simulations in Energy and Accelerator Sciences
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Vitaly Yakimenko Receives IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator: A Unique Accelerator that Reclaims Energy
Monday, April 16, 2012

Coherent Electron Cooling: Combining Methods to Cool Particle Beams and Increase Collision Rates at RHIC
Friday, April 13, 2012

Collider-Accelerator Department’s Erdong Wang Wins 2012 IEEE/NPSS PAST Doctoral Student Award
Monday, March 26, 2012

Triveni Rao wins Brookhaven Town’s 2012 Women’s Recognition Award
Monday, March 12, 2012

CASE Accelerates Accelerator Education
Monday, February 13, 2012

Ten BNL Scientists Granted Tenure: Meet James Alessi and Hooman Davoudiasl
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Brookhaven Scientists Help Develop Model for Future Accelerators
Monday, January 9, 2012
Videos
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The Past, Present & Future of Ultrafast CO2 Lasers: A Success Story Inspired by Accelerator Science
January 26, 2022
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NSLS-II: The New Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven Lab
June 24, 2015
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"Doing More With Less: Cost-effective, Compact Particle Accelerators"
October 22, 2013
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Backup Magnets Ready to Ship to LHC
September 20, 2013
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Massive Muon g-2 Electromagnetic Ring Leaves New York
August 7, 2013
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The Plasma Window
March 20, 2013
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From RHIC to eRHIC: Challenges and Opportunities for Accelerator Science
November 14, 2012