Nuclear Physics
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Rare Particle Pairs Point to Primordial Soup's Temperature at Different Stages
Thursday, November 13, 2025

More Signs of Phase-change 'Turbulence' in Nuclear Matter
Monday, September 29, 2025

First Physics Results from the sPHENIX Particle Detector
Thursday, July 17, 2025

STAR Data Reveal 'Splash' of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Maximal Entanglement Sheds New Light on Particle Creation
Friday, April 11, 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

Fresh, Direct Evidence for Tiny Drops of Quark-Gluon Plasma
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Brookhaven's Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Scientists Calculate Predictions for Meson Measurements
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Imaging Nuclear Shapes by Smashing them to Smithereens
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Brookhaven's Computing Center Reaches 300 Petabytes of Stored Data
Tuesday, October 8, 2024

New Heaviest Exotic Antimatter Nucleus
Wednesday, August 21, 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

United Kingdom Invests in DOE's Electron-Ion Collider Project to Understand Matter at the Smallest Scale
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Super Strong Magnetic Fields Leave Imprint on Nuclear Matter
Friday, February 23, 2024

France's National Center for Scientific Research and U.S. Department of Energy Sign 'Statement of Interest' on EIC Collaboration
Thursday, February 1, 2024

French and U.S. Science Agencies Take First Step to Collaborate on Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
Monday, November 13, 2023

Cathy Sue Cutler Named Chair of Isotope Research and Production Department
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Brookhaven Lab Statement on Nuclear Science Advisory Committee 2023 Recommendations for Nuclear Physics Research
Friday, October 6, 2023

Department of Energy Announces $5.8 Million for Research on Nuclear Data Benefitting Nuclear Science and Applications
Friday, September 15, 2023

DOE Announces $70 Million in Research Training Opportunities for Students and Faculty from Historically Underrepresented Institutions
Monday, August 21, 2023

Four Brookhaven Scientists Receive Early Career Research Awards
Friday, August 4, 2023

Calculations Reveal High-Resolution View of Quarks Inside Protons
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

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

Calculation Shows Why Heavy Quarks Get Caught up in the Flow
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Subtle Signs of Fluctuations in Critical Point Search
Friday, June 2, 2023

First Measurements of Hypernuclei Flow at RHIC
Friday, May 26, 2023

STAR Physicists Track Sequential 'Melting' of Upsilons
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Clear Sign that QGP Production 'Turns Off' at Low Energy
Friday, February 24, 2023

Celebrating the Upcoming sPHENIX Detector
Friday, January 27, 2023

Data Reveal a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

New Type of Entanglement Lets Scientists 'See' Inside Nuclei
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

What Triggers Flow Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collision Debris?
Monday, December 19, 2022

Particles of Light May Create Fluid Flow, Data-Theory Comparison Suggests
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Brookhaven Lab to Lead New 'Saturated Glue' Theory Collaboration
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Nuclear Theorists Collaborate to Explore 'Heavy Flavor' Particles
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Nuclear Physics Gets a Boost for High-Performance Computing
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

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

FRIB Experiment Pushes Elements to the Limit
Monday, November 14, 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

Brookhaven's Brandenburg Named 2022 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Simons Foundation Announces New Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Study Reveals How Some High-Energy Particle 'Jets' Lose Energy
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Physicists 'Shine' Light on Inner Details and Breakup of Simple Nucleus
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Archives of a Pioneering Female Nuclear Physicist Soon Open for Research at the Center for Jewish History
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Abhay Deshpande Named AAAS Fellow
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

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

Department of Energy Announces $5.7 Million for Research on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for Nuclear Physics Accelerators and Detectors
Friday, December 3, 2021

Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named APS Fellows
Monday, October 18, 2021

Direct Photons Offer Glimpse of Gluons' Dynamic Motion
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Getting up to Speed on the Proton
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

New Results from the RHIC Spin Program
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Physicists Probe Light Smashups to Guide Future Research
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid
Monday, September 20, 2021

Toward Scaling Up Nanocages to Trap Noble Gases
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Results from Search for 'Chiral Magnetic Effect' at RHIC
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Brookhaven Lab Names New Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate Lead
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change 'Turbulence' in RHIC Collisions
Friday, March 5, 2021

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

CERN Senior Fellow Dorota Grabowska Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Berndt Mueller Awarded 2021 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Friday, October 9, 2020

DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Selects 52 Outstanding U.S. Graduate Students
Monday, October 5, 2020

Key Partners Mark Launch of Electron-Ion Collider Project
Friday, September 18, 2020

Brookhaven and Forge Nano to Mature Noble Gas-Trapping Technology
Thursday, July 9, 2020

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

Two Community College Interns Earn Scholarships to Pursue Bachelor's Degrees
Wednesday, July 9, 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

25 Years Since First Collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Bringing the Beautiful Data of the Electron-Ion Collider to Life
Thursday, March 6, 2025

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

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

Zhiwan Xu Wins 2024 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Monday, July 22, 2024

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

How Sticky Is Dense Nuclear Matter?
Monday, June 24, 2024

534th Brookhaven Lecture: Probing Quark Gluon-Plasma with Heavy Quarks
Friday, May 24, 2024

New Method Could Explore Gluon Saturation at the Future Electron-Ion Collider
Friday, April 26, 2024

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

João Barata Awarded CERN Fellowship
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Empowering Women to Explore Nuclear Physics
Friday, March 29, 2024

Giving Particle Detectors a Boost
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Cracking the Quantum Code: Simulations Track Entangled Quarks
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Bringing Virtual Reality to Nuclear and Particle Physics
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Physicists and Students Format PHENIX Data for Easy Access
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Seeing the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Electron-Ion Collider Project Gears up for Next Steps
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Packed Crowd Attends Brookhaven Lab's Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan Roll-Out Event
Monday, October 23, 2023

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

Traineeships Aim to Boost Inclusion, Support Minorities in Nuclear Physics
Monday, September 11, 2023

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

Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear Matter
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

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

sPHENIX Detector is Ready for Collisions
Monday, May 1, 2023

RHIC Featured in Scientific American "Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe"
Monday, March 6, 2023

Time Projection Chamber Installed at sPHENIX
Thursday, February 2, 2023

sPHENIX Assembly Update: Magnet Mapped, Detectors Prepared
Friday, December 23, 2022

531st Brookhaven Lecture: Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Smashing Heavy Nuclei Reveals Proton Size
Thursday, October 27, 2022

How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Proton? You Smash It to Smithereens – Then Build It Back Together With Machine Learning
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

African School of Physics Brings New Opportunities
Monday, September 19, 2022

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

Quark Matter 2022: New Results from RHIC and LHC—Plus Plans for the Future
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Successful Deployment of Equipment to New Scientific Data & Computing Center
Monday, April 11, 2022

sPHENIX Detector Upgrade Clears Assembly Milestone
Friday, March 18, 2022

The Electron-Ion Collider: A Precision Tool for Studying the 'Glue' that Binds Visible Matter
Friday, March 4, 2022

Team Aims to Pin Down Neutron Spin
Friday, January 7, 2022

EIC User Profile: Cristiano Fanelli
Monday, November 29, 2021

Key Magnet Installed at sPHENIX Detector
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

EIC User Profile: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physicist Jennifer Rittenhouse West
Monday, October 11, 2021

EIC User Profile: Francesco Bossu
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

EIC User Profile: Rachel Montgomery
Thursday, September 2, 2021

EIC User Profile: Prabhakar Palni
Friday, August 27, 2021

EIC User Profile: Alexander Jentsch
Thursday, August 5, 2021

EIC User Profile: Vaibhavi Gawas
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

sPHENIX Assembly Shifts into Visible High Gear
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Meet Berenice Garcia
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Meet Jeff Ouellette
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

'Forward' Jet-tracking Components Installed at RHIC's STAR Detector
Monday, February 22, 2021

Brookhaven Intern Caroline Sears Analyzes Nuclear Fission Yields
Friday, January 8, 2021

Nuclear Physics Data Demand More Powerful Processing
Friday, August 28, 2020

The Electron-Ion Collider – A New Frontier in Nuclear Physics
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Charm Quarks Offer Clues to Confinement
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Celebrating 20 Years of Smashing Success at RHIC
Friday, June 12, 2020

A Fresh Pair of Eyes On an Old Nuclear Physics Problem
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Stunning Images Capture Cosmic Ray Tracks
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

3-D Periodic Table at New York Hall of Science
Friday, October 25, 2019
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