Accelerators
News Releases
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
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
