News Archives
2024
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Super Strong Magnetic Fields Leave Imprint on Nuclear Matter
Friday, February 23, 2024
Data from heavy ion collisions give new insight into electromagnetic properties of quark-gluon plasma.
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New Measurement of Cosmic Distances in the Dark Energy Survey Gives Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy
Thursday, February 22, 2024
The new measurement fixes the scale of the universe when it was half its present age, achieving a record-setting accuracy of 2%.
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Scientists Get Ready to Observe Neutrinos with SBND
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
The Short-Baseline Near Detector collaboration is preparing for an exciting year at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. After nearly a decade of planning, prototyping and construction, the team is in the final stretch of commissioning of their detector.
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Calibrating from the Cosmos
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
A new calibration service will take LuSEE-Night, an upcoming lunar-based radio telescope, to ultimate precision.
2023
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Advisory Panel Issues Field-Defining Recommendations for U.S. Government Investments in Particle Physics Research
Friday, December 8, 2023
The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has released a new Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report outlining research priorities in the field.
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Seeing the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
New theoretical work indicates that the future Electron Ion Collider can be used to measure the shape of atomic nuclei.
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Brookhaven Lab Statement on Nuclear Science Advisory Committee 2023 Recommendations for Nuclear Physics Research
Friday, October 6, 2023
On Oct. 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation's (NSF) Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) presented its “Long Range Plan” of recommendations to advance U.S. nuclear physics research over the next decade.
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Listening to the Radio on the Far Side of the Moon
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.
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Celebrating New Beginnings at RHIC and EIC
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Annual RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting highlights productive programs, response to challenges, and forward-looking physics goals.
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European Physical Society Honors Daya Bay Collaboration
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Daya Bay researchers measuring key properties of neutrinos receive European Physical Society’s 2023 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize.
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Brookhaven Lab's Hucheng Chen Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Honored for designing particle detector electronics that can read out signals under super cold conditions
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Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear Matter
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
New calculations suggest that high energy quarks should scatter wider and faster in hot quark matter than can be accounted for by local interactions.
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Four Brookhaven Scientists Receive Early Career Research Awards
Friday, August 4, 2023
Four scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected by DOE’s Office of Science to receive significant funding through its Early Career Research Program.
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Calculations Reveal High-Resolution View of Quarks Inside Protons
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
A collaboration of nuclear theorists has used supercomputers to predict the spatial distributions of charges, momentum, and other properties of “up” and “down” quarks within protons.
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Fascinating Physics with the Universe's Basic Building Blocks
Thursday, July 27, 2023
July 30: Visit the Superconducting Magnet Division and learn about the amazing science of RHIC and the EIC.
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New Driver for Shapes of Small Quark-Gluon Plasma Drops?
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Results point to importance of internal structure of nucleons—and need for new measurements to disentangle other contributions.
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Direct Photons Point to Positive Gluon Polarization
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Results from ‘golden measurement’ at RHIC’s PHENIX experiment show the spins of gluons align with the spin of the proton they’re in.
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Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Calculations predict the temperature at which bottomonium melts in the hot matter created in heavy ion collisions.
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Calculation Shows Why Heavy Quarks Get Caught up in the Flow
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
New results will help physicists interpret experimental data from particle collisions at RHIC and the LHC and better understand the interactions of quarks and gluons
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Subtle Signs of Fluctuations in Critical Point Search
Friday, June 2, 2023
Analysis of lightweight nuclei emerging from gold ion collisions offers insight into primordial matter phase changes.
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First Measurements of Hypernuclei Flow at RHIC
Friday, May 26, 2023
Particle collisions offer new way to study interactions of hyperon particles with ordinary nuclear building blocks, potentially giving insight into the properties of neutron stars
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A Simple Solution for Nuclear Matter in Two Dimensions
Monday, May 22, 2023
Modeling nuclear matter in two dimensions greatly simplifies understanding interactions among “cold,” dense quarks—including in neutron stars.
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A Holographic View into Quantum Anomalies
Monday, May 15, 2023
New calculations provide insights into the dynamics of the chiral magnetic effect in heavy ion collisions.
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RHIC Gets Ready to Smash Gold Ions for Run 23
Monday, May 8, 2023
New sPHENIX detector and a range of upgraded components at STAR will see full-energy heavy-ion collisions for the first time
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sPHENIX Detector is Ready for Collisions
Monday, May 1, 2023
More than a decade in the making, the advanced particle detector moves from assembly to active experiment.
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DUNE Collaboration Tests New Technology for Second Detector Module
Friday, March 31, 2023
Members of the DUNE collaboration are busy at work designing, testing, and building the components of the first two DUNE detector modules
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Improved ATLAS Result Weighs in on the W Boson
Thursday, March 23, 2023
An improved ATLAS measurement of the W boson mass is in line with the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Mary Bishai Elected DUNE Co-Spokesperson
Monday, March 20, 2023
Bishai will serve alongside University of Bologna physicist Sergio Bertolucci to lead the world’s largest neutrino collaboration.
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Scientists Find a Common Thread Linking Subatomic Color Glass Condensate and Massive Black Holes
Friday, March 17, 2023
Physicists have discovered a remarkable correspondence between dense states of gluons—the gluelike carriers of the strong nuclear force within atomic nuclei—and enormous black holes in the cosmos.
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STAR Physicists Track Sequential 'Melting' of Upsilons
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Findings provide evidence for ‘deconfinement’ and insight into seething temperature of the hottest matter on Earth.
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Lunar Telescope Will Search for Ancient Radio Waves
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
DOE and NASA are collaborating to land a radio telescope on the far side of the moon and probe an unexplored era of the early universe.
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Hitting Nuclei with Light May Create Fluid Primordial Matter
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
A new analysis supports the idea that particles of light (photons) colliding with heavy ions create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles
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RHIC Featured in Scientific American "Tiny Bubbles of Quark-Gluon Plasma Re-create the Early Universe"
Monday, March 6, 2023
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before.
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Kétévi Assamagan Pays it Forward
Friday, March 3, 2023
Kétévi Assamagan's contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Clear Sign that QGP Production 'Turns Off' at Low Energy
Friday, February 24, 2023
Higher order statistical analysis of protons emitted from wide range of gold-gold collision energies shows clear absence of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at the lowest energy.
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Physics Colloquium and BWIS Speaker: Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke: Remembering Science Pioneer Lise Meitner, 2/15
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Mahnke will explore how Meitner’s work influenced the science of today and the lessons her life teaches about overcoming considerable obstacles such as exclusion and persecution.
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Time Projection Chamber Installed at sPHENIX
Thursday, February 2, 2023
The gas-filled detector is one of many components that nuclear physicists will use to glean more information about the quark-gluon plasma.
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Celebrating the Upcoming sPHENIX Detector
Friday, January 27, 2023
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, helped Brookhaven Lab celebrate the fast-approaching debut of the sPHENIX detector.
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Data Reveal a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Findings may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations.
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New Type of Entanglement Lets Scientists 'See' Inside Nuclei
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
First-ever observation of quantum interference between dissimilar elementary particles offers new approach for mapping distribution of gluons in atomic nuclei—and potentially more.
2022
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sPHENIX Assembly Update: Magnet Mapped, Detectors Prepared
Friday, December 23, 2022
Collaborators’ sights are set on a spring 2023 start-up for advanced particle detector.
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What Triggers Flow Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collision Debris?
Monday, December 19, 2022
Comprehensive study pointing to initial state influences on particle flow patterns will help nuclear physicists zero in on key properties of matter that mimics the early universe.
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Particles of Light May Create Fluid Flow, Data-Theory Comparison Suggests
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Theorists’ hydrodynamic flow calculations accurately describe data from collisions of photons with lead nuclei at the ATLAS experiment.
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531st Brookhaven Lecture: Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Join Yacine Mehtar-Tani of the Physics Department for the 531st Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 4 p.m. on Zoom.
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Brookhaven Lab to Lead New 'Saturated Glue' Theory Collaboration
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Team will develop calculations and framework for discovering and exploring a saturated state of gluons, the particles that hold together everything we see.
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Nuclear Theorists Collaborate to Explore 'Heavy Flavor' Particles
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Leading U.S. researchers will develop framework for describing exotic particles’ behavior at various stages in the evolution of hot nuclear matter.
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Nuclear Physics Gets a Boost for High-Performance Computing
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Jefferson Lab and its partners benefit from Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Partnership in Nuclear Physics grants.
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Department of Energy Announces $8.6 Million for Research on Accelerator R&D for Nuclear Physics
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Research will focus on both existing and next-generation facilities.
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FRIB Experiment Pushes Elements to the Limit
Monday, November 14, 2022
The first result from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams measures how long exotic nuclei can survive at the edge of stability.
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Theorists Propose a Novel Way to Measure Gluons' Orbital Motion
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Theorists have proposed a novel method to experimentally probe the motion of gluons, the particles that hold quarks together inside protons.
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Inflation Reduction Act Funding Advances Science at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, November 4, 2022
Scientific projects managed by Brookhaven Lab have received an infusion of $224 million in funding as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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New MicroBooNE Analysis Takes a Closer Look at the Sterile Neutrino
Monday, October 31, 2022
The MicroBooNE collaboration at Fermilab has released a new analysis of their neutrino data. The result provides constraints on a model that assumes the existence of a sterile neutrino to explain anomalies in neutrino measurements by other experiments.
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Luisella Lari Joins Brookhaven Lab as Electron-Ion Collider Project Manager
Monday, October 31, 2022
Brookhaven National Laboratory has named Luisella Lari as Project Manager for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)—a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility that will offer a closer look at the building blocks of matter—effective Oct. 3, 2022.
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Smashing Heavy Nuclei Reveals Proton Size
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Theoretical study exploits precision of new heavy ion collision data to predict how gluons are distributed inside protons and neutrons
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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
New tool decodes proton snapshots captured by history-making particle detector in record time
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Liza Brost Unmasks Mysteries of the Higgs Boson
Monday, October 24, 2022
Brookhaven Lab physicist Liza Brost traveled across the pond to unravel a key piece of particle physics.
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Three Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named Fellows of American Physical Society
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Honor recognizes exceptional contributions to physics, including in research, applications, leadership and service, and education.
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Expert in the Field of Theoretical Physics: Honorary Doctorate for Sally Dawson
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Heidelberg University Combined Faculty of Mathematics, Engineering, and Natural Sciences honors Dawson as an outstanding representative of her discipline.
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Morse and Roberts Win W.K.H. Panofsky Prize for Muon g-2 Experiment
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Physicists helped lead experiment that revealed discrepancy with Standard Model-based predictions and sparked ongoing experimental and theoretical search for new physics.
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Brookhaven's Brandenburg Named 2022 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Award recognizes Brandenburg’s notable experimental achievements at the frontier of nuclear physics.
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Smashing Heavy Nuclei Reveals Proton Size
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Identifying and precisely measuring factors that are sensitive to nucleon size will help physicists more accurately describe the quark-gluon plasma (QGP).
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African School of Physics Brings New Opportunities
Monday, September 19, 2022
Brookhaven Lab supports the 7th African School of Physics, to be held in Gqeberha, South Africa, this fall.
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Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Suppression of a telltale sign of quark-gluon interactions presented as evidence of multiple scatterings and gluon recombination in dense walls of gluons
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Simons Foundation Announces New Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings
Thursday, July 28, 2022
The collaboration brings together leading scientists and Brookhaven Lab nuclear physics facilities to explore how the building blocks of matter get their properties.
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Brookhaven Lab chemists developed liquid scintillator that fills an essential component of the detector designed to veto false signals.
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RHIC/AGS Users' Meeting Emphasizes Diverse Workforce Opportunities
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Supporting scientists and students from underrepresented communities is a top priority for the nuclear physics field.
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From RHIC to EIC: At the QCD Frontiers
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Annual users’ meeting highlights physics results, future plans, efforts to increase diversity, and more.
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Study Reveals How Some High-Energy Particle 'Jets' Lose Energy
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Results may offer new insight into properties of quark-gluon plasma (QGP)—the hot mix of fundamental nuclear-matter building blocks that filled the early universe.
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Physicists Announce First Results from Daya Bay's Final Dataset
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment has produced the most precise measurement yet of theta13.
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527th Brookhaven Lecture: New Physics, Measuring Muon Magnetism
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Join Vladimir Tishchenko for this talk about a hunt for new physics at 4 p.m. today, May 25, on Zoom.
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Quark Matter 2022: New Results from RHIC and LHC—Plus Plans for the Future
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Meeting highlights include detailed descriptions of fundamental matter and explorations of intriguing physics.
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Haiyan Gao Named 'Highly Accomplished Asian American Professional'
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Gao will be recognized at the thirteenth annual Suffolk County Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration.
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Large Hadron Collider Restarts
Friday, April 22, 2022
Beams of protons are again circulating around the collider’s 27-kilometre ring, marking the end of a multiple-year hiatus for upgrade work.
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Breakthrough MicroBooNE Measurement Elucidates Neutrino Interactions
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Physicists have extracted a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor.
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Successful Deployment of Equipment to New Scientific Data & Computing Center
Monday, April 11, 2022
New location, new infrastructure, and new design bring new challenges and opportunities.
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Three Brookhaven Scientists Named Oppenheimer Leadership Fellows
Monday, April 4, 2022
Diverse perspectives and areas of expertise highlight the fifth cohort of Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program.
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Physicists 'Shine' Light on Inner Details and Breakup of Simple Nucleus
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Collisions of light with deuterons offer insight into gluelike particles that bind the building blocks of matter—and what it takes to break protons and neutrons apart.
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Archives of a Pioneering Female Nuclear Physicist Soon Open for Research at the Center for Jewish History
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Gertrude S. Goldhaber’s papers reflect the struggle of women in STEM and the turbulent history of physics from 1930s Germany to the Cold War
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sPHENIX Detector Upgrade Clears Assembly Milestone
Friday, March 18, 2022
The successful outer hadronic calorimeter installation makes way for ramped up assembly activities in 2022.
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Brookhaven Lab Computing Appointee to Receive Highest Honor in Polymer Physics
Monday, March 14, 2022
Columbia University Professor Sanat Kumar, a Brookhaven Lab CSI joint appointee, wins 2022 American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize.
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The Dark Side of the Universe: How Black Holes Became Supermassive
Friday, March 11, 2022
New model from Brookhaven Lab physicists suggests the early universe experienced a phase transition that formed supermassive black holes in a dark sector of physics
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ATLAS Event Selection System Readies for LHC Run 3
Friday, March 4, 2022
The upgraded trigger will spot a wider range of collision events, opening ATLAS physics analyses to new possibilities.
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The Electron-Ion Collider: A Precision Tool for Studying the 'Glue' that Binds Visible Matter
Friday, March 4, 2022
Professor Abhay Deshpande, of Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Dr Zein-Eddine Meziani, of Argonne National Laboratory, outline the potential of the planned Electron-Ion Collider and the many questions about the Universe that it hopes to answer.
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Brookhaven Women in Science Now Accepting Applications for 2022 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Thursday, January 27, 2022
The prize is granted to a female graduate student in physics who is recognized for her substantial promise and accomplishment.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Abhay Deshpande Named AAAS Fellow
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Honor recognizes accomplishments in experimental nuclear physics at RHIC and planning for future Electron-Ion Collider
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Live Celebration, Q&A: Brookhaven Lab's 75th Anniversary
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Meet Brookhaven leadership and ask questions live during a virtual event exploring the future of science research.
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Team Aims to Pin Down Neutron Spin
Friday, January 7, 2022
Recent work will use the forthcoming Electron-Ion Collider to investigate what contributes to a neutron’s spin, which could help physicists solve some of the universe’s puzzles.
2021
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Start-up of 22nd Run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Monday, December 13, 2021
Physicists will try out innovative accelerator techniques and deliver high-energy polarized protons for explorations of protons’ inner structure using new detector components at STAR.
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DUNE Collaboration Starts Production of Components for Its Gigantic Neutrino Detector
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Brookhaven Lab contributed to the initial design of the DUNE “anode plane assemblies.”
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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
Projects will advance understanding of atomic structure and the nature of matter and antimatter.
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EIC User Profile: Cristiano Fanelli
Monday, November 29, 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology research scientist aims to use Artificial Intelligence to support the EIC science.
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Successful RHIC Run 21 Completes Beam Energy Scan II
Thursday, November 18, 2021
An early wrap of the final phase of Beam Energy Scan II allowed scientists to reach additional goals.
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Brookhaven Lab's Julia Gehrlein Wins Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
Monday, November 8, 2021
With this award, Gehrlein will collaborate on ideas to shine light onto possible extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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In Memoriam: Martin Blume, Former Brookhaven Lab Deputy Director
Friday, November 5, 2021
Martin Blume, who served 12 years as deputy director at Brookhaven National Laboratory, died on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. He was 89.
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Scientists Spot Rare Neutrino Signal for Big Physics Finding
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Scientists developed software that reconstructs neutrino data, enabling a long-awaited finding from the MicroBooNE experiment.
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MicroBooNE Experiment's First Results Show No Hint of a Sterile Neutrino
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Four analyses show no signs of sterile neutrinos, a theorized particle that could explain anomalies seen in previous experiments.
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Brookhaven Lab Hosts Live Q&A on Dark Matter, 10/28
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Join us for a Q&A session with three Brookhaven Lab scientists. Our panel will answer your questions about dark matter and dark energy LIVE.
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Key Magnet Installed at sPHENIX Detector
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Crews installed an enormous superconducting magnet that will be the centerpiece of the sPHENIX detector earlier this month.
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Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named APS Fellows
Monday, October 18, 2021
Honorees represent experiments, computational modeling, and educational/outreach efforts in nuclear and particle physics
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Direct Photons Offer Glimpse of Gluons' Dynamic Motion
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
PHENIX data validate approach for future studies of proton spin and structure.
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Getting up to Speed on the Proton
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Scientists develop groundbreaking theory for calculating what’s happening inside a proton travelling at the speed of light.
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EIC User Profile: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physicist Jennifer Rittenhouse West
Monday, October 11, 2021
Theoretical nuclear and particle physicist uses the solidity of mathematics to explore fundamental questions where Nature has the final say.
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New Results from the RHIC Spin Program
Thursday, October 7, 2021
APS Division of Nuclear Physics meeting will feature latest results on the contributions of quarks and gluons to proton spin and future measurement opportunities at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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EIC User Profile: Francesco Bossu
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Particle physicist living out a high school dream of investigating the smallest building blocks of the universe with enthusiasm for discovery top-of-mind.
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How to Train Your Magnet
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
New accelerator magnets are undergoing a rigorous training program to prepare them for the extreme conditions inside the upgraded Large Hadron Collider.
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Accelerator Physicist Irina Petrushina Named Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalist
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Petrushina, who conducts research at Brookhaven Lab, is recognized for two outstanding accelerator physics advancements.
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Physicists Probe Light Smashups to Guide Future Research
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Understanding photon collisions could aid search for physics beyond the Standard Model.
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How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid
Monday, September 20, 2021
Scientists report new clues about how the quark-gluon plasma – nature’s perfect fluid – evolved into matter.
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Anže Slosar: Then and Now
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
DOE’s Early Career Research Program enabled Anže Slosar to pursue a novel technique for mapping the structures in the Universe.
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EIC User Profile: Rachel Montgomery
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Scotland-based nuclear physics research fellow works toward Electron-Ion Collider in hopes of journey to the smallest of places: the world of quarks and gluons.
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Toward Scaling Up Nanocages to Trap Noble Gases
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Commercially available materials may be a potentially scalable platform for trapping gases for nuclear energy and other applications.
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Results from Search for 'Chiral Magnetic Effect' at RHIC
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Collisions of ‘isobars’ test effect of magnetic field, searching for signs of a broken symmetry.
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EIC User Profile: Prabhakar Palni
Friday, August 27, 2021
Goa University assistant professor joins Electron-Ion Collider collaboration in hopes of uncovering universe’s building blocks.
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EIC User Profile: Alexander Jentsch
Thursday, August 5, 2021
Postdoctoral fellow works to develop detectors for particles that emerge very close to colliding beams at the Electron-Ion Collider
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EIC User Profile: Vaibhavi Gawas
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Undergraduate student studying physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India, conducts simulations of Electron-Ion Collider interactions.
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Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Study demonstrates a long-predicted process for generating matter directly from light — plus evidence that magnetism can bend polarized photons along different paths in a vacuum
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ATLAS Confirms Universality of Key Particle Interactions
Friday, July 9, 2021
Test demonstrates “lepton flavor universality” for interactions of muon and tau leptons with W bosons
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Meet Jeff Ouellette
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Fifth year PhD candidate and graduate research assistant describes working on sPHENIX assembly in his own words
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Meet Berenice Garcia
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Third year graduate student contributes to the assembly of the sPHENIX particle detector
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sPHENIX Assembly Shifts into Visible High Gear
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Scientists, engineers, technicians, and students assemble state-of-the-art components of major detector upgrade at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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Electron-Ion Collider Achieves Critical Decision 1 Approval
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy has granted Critical Decision 1 for the Electron-Ion Collider, a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility to be built at Brookhaven Lab.
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Uncovering Hidden Local States in a Quantum Material
Monday, June 28, 2021
States of local broken symmetry at high temperature may enable technologically relevant properties arising at much-lower temperature.
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Brookhaven Lab Intern Returns to Continue Theoretical Physics Pursuit
Monday, June 14, 2021
Wenjie Gong is virtually visiting Brookhaven for an internship to perform theory research on quantum information science in nuclear physics.
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Physicists Achieve Significant Improvement in Spotting Accelerator-produced Neutrinos in a Cosmic Haystack
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Ground-breaking image reconstruction and analysis algorithms developed for surface-based MicroBooNE detector filter out cosmic ray tracks to pinpoint elusive neutrino interactions with unprecedented clarity.
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Lighting Up Ultrafast Magnetism in a Metal Oxide
Monday, June 7, 2021
Understanding how magnetic correlations change over short timescales is the first step in being able to control magnetism for applications.
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Mapping the Electronic States in an Exotic Superconductor
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The maps point to the composition range necessary for topological superconductivity, a state that could enable more robust quantum computing.
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Brookhaven Lab Names New Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate Lead
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Haiyan Gao, a nuclear physicist and professor, will join the Lab as Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics.
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Searching for the Holy Grail of Higgs Physics
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Physicists at the ATLAS experiment are beginning to search for a rare Higgs boson process, called pair production.
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First Results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 Experiment Strengthen Evidence of New Physics
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Combined results from Fermilab and Brookhaven show strong evidence that our best theoretical model of the subatomic world is incomplete.
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Deadline Extended to 4/15: Apply Now for Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Brookhaven Women in Science is accepting applications for the $3,000 prize through April 15.
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The Mystery of the Muon's Magnetism
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment.
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Lena Funcke Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Postdoctoral theorist recognized for her work at the intersection of fundamental particles, the cosmos, and quantum computing
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Magnetism Meets Topology on a Superconductor's Surface
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
This unusual electronic energy structure could be harnessed for future quantum information science and electronics.
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Scientists Describe Detector Goals for Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
International community of EIC scientists publishes “yellow report” laying out physics case, detector requirements, and evolving detector concepts for future nuclear physics facility
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Searching for Signs of 'Glueballs' in Proton-Proton Smashups
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Gluons, the particles that bind quarks, may also bind to one another. Scientists are searching for evidence of these globs of pure ‘glue.’
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Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change 'Turbulence' in RHIC Collisions
Friday, March 5, 2021
Fluctuations in net proton production hint at a possible ‘critical point’ marking a change in the way nuclear matter transforms from one phase to another.
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'Forward' Jet-tracking Components Installed at RHIC's STAR Detector
Monday, February 22, 2021
New calorimeters will give scientists a glimpse of the internal structure of protons and nuclei in particle smash-ups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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What is Luminosity?
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Later this decade, the Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded to the High-Luminosity LHC. What does “luminosity” mean in particle physics?
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Brookhaven Women in Science Now Accepting Applications for 2021 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Monday, February 1, 2021
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Brookhaven Physicist Robert Palmer Retires After 60 Years
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The celebrated physicist, who joined Brookhaven in 1960, reflects on his career and decades of fun in the field.
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RHIC Run 21: Pushing the Limits at the Lowest Collision Energy
Monday, January 25, 2021
Final stage of Beam Energy Scan II will collect low-energy collision data needed to understand the transition of ordinary nuclear matter into a soup of free quarks and gluons
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Light-induced Twisting of Weyl Nodes Switches on Giant Electron Current
Monday, January 18, 2021
The discovery could be useful in the development of quantum computers and electronics with high speed and low energy consumption.
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Brookhaven Intern Caroline Sears Analyzes Nuclear Fission Yields
Friday, January 8, 2021
The Smith College undergraduate is analyzing data relevant to nuclear reactor science.
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Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
With all the remarkable changes and challenges that took place in 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory had a banner year in science.
2020
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In Memoriam: Jack Steinberger, Partner in Nobel Prize-winning Discovery of Muon Neutrino at Brookhaven's AGS
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Prize-winning experiment led to discoveries that opened entirely new opportunities for research into the innermost structure and dynamics of matter
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#RHIC20 Celebrates the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider's History
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
To celebrate RHIC’s 20th anniversary, Brookhaven Lab collected some of the facility’s most exciting and historic moments on Twitter.
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Scientists Say Farewell to Daya Bay Site, Proceed with Final Data Analysis
Friday, December 11, 2020
In a special ceremony, scientists begin shutdown of successful neutrino experiment
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DUNE Publishes First Physics Results from Prototype Detector
Monday, December 7, 2020
Detector is performing with greater than 99% efficiency
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Quantum X-ray Microscope Underway at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, November 23, 2020
Researchers at NSLS-II will use the quantum properties of x-rays to “ghost image” biomolecules.
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The Many Paths of Muon Math
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Here’s how physicists calculate g-2, the value that will determine whether the muon is giving us a sign of new physics.
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Brookhaven's Ivan Bozovic Wins 2021 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Bozovic and collaborators were recognized for developing a method to make complex oxides and discovering new phenomena in these materials
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#BlackInPhysics Week to Build Community, Increase Visibility
Friday, October 23, 2020
Hashtag to highlight stories on Twitter Oct. 25 through Oct. 31
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CERN Senior Fellow Dorota Grabowska Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Theoretical physicist seeking to understand the mathematical basis of particle physics will deliver two virtual talks
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Berndt Mueller Awarded 2021 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Friday, October 9, 2020
The annual American Physical Society prize recognizes outstanding research in the field.
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DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Selects 52 Outstanding U.S. Graduate Students
Monday, October 5, 2020
Students will perform thesis research at national laboratories, including in chemistry/materials science and nuclear physics at Brookhaven
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Key Partners Mark Launch of Electron-Ion Collider Project
Friday, September 18, 2020
State-of-the-art facility and partnership among DOE, NYS, Brookhaven Lab, and Jefferson Lab will open a new frontier in nuclear physics, a field essential to our understanding of the visible universe with applications in national security, human health, and more
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New Calculation Refines Comparison of Matter with Antimatter
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Theorists publish improved prediction for the tiny difference in kaon decays observed by experiments
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APS Designates Sanford Lab, Morgan State University as Historic Physics Sites
Monday, September 14, 2020
Recognition honors site of Brookhaven Lab chemist Ray Davis’s Nobel Prize-winning solar neutrino research
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Sensors of World's Largest Digital Camera Snap First 3,200-megapixel Images at SLAC
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
SLAC Lab has taken the first photos with the imaging sensors that will be integrated into the Rubin Observatory LSST camera.
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Nuclear Physics Data Demand More Powerful Processing
Friday, August 28, 2020
Jefferson Lab and Brookhaven National Lab partner on a Software & Computing Round Table to track the leading edge of computing and foster collaboration
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The Electron-Ion Collider – A New Frontier in Nuclear Physics
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
One-of-a-kind future research facility will peer into the building blocks of visible matter and unlock the secrets of the strongest force in nature.
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A Team of International Physicists Join Forces in Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
An international group of more than 260 scientists have produced one of the most stringent tests for the existence of sterile neutrinos to date.
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No Need to Mind The Gap: Astrophysicists Fill In 11 Billion Years of Our Universe's Expansion History
Monday, July 20, 2020
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has released a comprehensive analysis of the largest 3-D map of the universe ever created.
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Charm Quarks Offer Clues to Confinement
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Tracking particles containing charm quarks at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider offers insight into how quarks combine
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Brookhaven and Forge Nano to Mature Noble Gas-Trapping Technology
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Through DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund, the national lab-startup team will develop “nanocages” for nuclear applications.
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SuperKEKB Collider Achieves the World's Highest Luminosity
Friday, June 26, 2020
Japan's flagship electron-positron collider, SuperKEKB, achieved the world's highest instantaneous luminosity for a colliding-beam accelerator
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Drones Help Calibrate Radio Telescope at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Cosmologists at Brookhaven Lab are experimenting with a prototype radio telescope that could pave the way for a larger experiment.
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New Research Deepens Mystery of Particle Generation in Proton Collisions
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
A new result from the RHICf experiment, which is exploring details of asymmetries observed in polarized proton collisions at RHIC, adds to the puzzling story of what causes “transverse spin asymmetry”
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Celebrating 20 Years of Smashing Success at RHIC
Friday, June 12, 2020
A look back at the early days, after two decades of discovery at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Physicists Publish Worldwide Consensus of Muon Magnetic Moment Calculation
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Result differs from 2004 experimental measurement at Brookhaven Lab, but not significantly enough to say definitively that the discrepancy between theory and experiment is real; the world awaits a new result from Fermilab’s current Muon g-2 experiment
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Brookhaven Lab Names Project Director for Electron-Ion Collider
Monday, June 8, 2020
Jim Yeck to lead project to build new facility for exploring the building blocks of matter and the strongest force in nature
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Exploring New Ways to See the Higgs Boson
Thursday, June 4, 2020
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
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A Window of Opportunity
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Scientists designing accelerator components for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) performed tests using proton beams at Brookhaven Lab
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Experimenting with Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Brookhaven Lab intern Prabhjot Kaur is working on an experiment to accelerate particles to greater energies in smaller spaces
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EIC R&D Yields Energy-saving Accelerator Innovations
Friday, May 22, 2020
An approach that scientists explored for accelerating particles in an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) could form the foundation of an energy-saving design for a future high-energy physics facility
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A Fresh Pair of Eyes On an Old Nuclear Physics Problem
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Brookhaven Lab Intern Pedro Rodríguez is working on simplifying a problem in nuclear physics that’s over a half-century old
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Electrons Break Rotational Symmetry in Exotic Low-Temp Superconductor
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
This odd behavior may promote the material’s ability upon cooling to perfectly conduct electricity in a way unexplained by standard theories.
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Quantum Gases Won't Take the Heat
Monday, May 18, 2020
Mathematical modeling suggests that a thermodynamics-defying quantum phenomenon can occur when many particles interact.
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Detecting Ghostlike Neutrinos: Tiny Messengers From the Universe
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Milind Diwan, Karen McNulty Walsh write neutrino article for kids in “Frontiers for Young Minds,” with illustrations by Tiffany Bowman
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Four Years of Calculations Lead to New Insights into Muon Anomaly
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Researchers have come up with newly precise calculations aimed at understanding a key disconnect between physics theory and experimental measurements.
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New Discovery Helps Close the Gap Towards Optically-Controlled Quantum Computation
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
A light-induced switching mechanism in an exotic material could enable high-speed, low-energy-consumption quantum computing.
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The Cold Eyes of DUNE
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Collaboration of several Department of Energy national labs develops prototypes of electronics for international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
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Belle II explores new "portal" into dark matter - First results from the Belle II Experiment
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Belle II has published its first paper—a search for an elementary particle that acts as a “portal” between ordinary matter and dark matter.
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Brookhaven Lab's Lijun Wu Receives 2020 Chuck Fiori Award
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
For the past 20 years, Wu has been advancing quantitative electron diffraction to study batteries, catalysts, and other energy materials.
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Chasing Lithium Ions on the Move in a Fast-Charging Battery
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Atomic distortions emerging in the electrode during operation provide a “fast lane” for the transport of lithium ions.
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Gold in Limbo Between Solid and Melted States
Monday, March 2, 2020
Laser-induced melting occurs nonuniformly in polycrystalline gold thin films—a finding that may be important for precision part micromachining.
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Stunning Images Capture Cosmic Ray Tracks
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
The beauty in science shines through at RHIC’s STAR detector and makes a cosmic connection.
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Brookhaven Women in Science Now Accepting Applications for 2020 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Friday, February 7, 2020
This year’s prize is $2,000, made possible by funding from Brookhaven Science Associates, Fred and Suzan Goldhaber, and the Lab’s Nuclear Particle Physics Directorate.
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Making High-Temperature Superconductivity Disappear to Understand Its Origin
Monday, February 3, 2020
Purely electronic interactions could be behind copper-oxygen compounds conducting electricity without resistance at relatively high temps.
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Theoretical Study Points to Jade-Like Materials as Quantum Spin Liquids
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Materials that can host this exotic liquid-like magnetic state could be harnessed for next-generation energy and computing applications.
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A New Spin on the Basics
Monday, January 27, 2020
Quantum computers are poised to help unlock some of the most mysterious concepts in physics. Oddly, some already may seem a bit familiar.
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The Big Questions: Sally Dawson on the Higgs Boson
Monday, January 13, 2020
With new funding from her Distinguished Scientists Fellows Award, Brookhaven senior scientist Sally Dawson describes her research plans.
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BWIS Speaker Ed Sierra on 'Enrico Fermi: Voyage to a New World' 1/23
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Sierra’s talk, on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 4 p.m., at Brookhaven Lab, is sponsored by Brookhaven Women in Science.
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Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
Monday, January 6, 2020
From building a quantum network testbed to delving deeper into proton spin, here are the Lab’s top 10 advances of the year.
2019
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Electron Pulser for Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Wins 2019 R&D 100 Award
Friday, December 20, 2019
Brookhaven and its collaborators developed a laser-free device for probing fast atomic-scale processes in energy and bio materials.
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Meet Alessandra Colli: Engineering Improvements in 3-D-printed Metals
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Alessandra Colli seeks to merge materials risk analysis with data collected at world-class science tools to improve safety, reliability, and opportunities in metal additive manufacturing
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Get to Know 10 Early-Career Experimentalists
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Symmetry collection of early-career profiles includes Brookhaven Lab neutrino hunter Chao Zhang
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Building up the African Physics Community
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Since 2010, the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, organized by Brookhaven Lab physicist Ketevi Assamagan, has provided education to hundreds of students
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Neutrino Physicist Kirsty Duffy Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Monday, October 28, 2019
Duffy to deliver two talks on identity-changing particles called neutrinos at Brookhaven Lab November 5 and 7
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3-D Periodic Table at New York Hall of Science
Friday, October 25, 2019
Brookhaven Lab contributed three elements that are at the center of our historical and ongoing radioisotope research to a 3-D periodic table on display through Sunday, Oct. 27.
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Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
Friday, October 18, 2019
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This “self-similarity” can be seen throughout nature, for example in a snowflake’s edge, a river network, the splitting veins in a fern, and the crackling forks of lightning.
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Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Fellows
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Higgs theorist Sally Dawson and catalysis researcher José Rodriguez will receive $1 million each to advance their work.
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Denisov Leads High Energy Physics at Brookhaven
Friday, October 11, 2019
Dmitri Denisov has been named Deputy Associate Lab Director for High Energy Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named Fellows of the American Physical Society
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Michael Begel and Robert Konik receive recognition for their respective contributions to high-energy and condensed-matter physics
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Alumni from African School of Physics Come to Brookhaven Lab for Hands-on Work Experience
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Nine alumni students from the African School of Physics spent three months at the Lab getting hands-on research experience
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Department of Energy Announces $21.4 Million for Quantum Information Science Research
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Brookhaven scientists will use quantum principles for high-resolution astrometry and machine learning–based particle physics data analysis.
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Lynne Ecker: A Nuclear Materials Scientist
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Ecker became chair of Brookhaven’s Nuclear Science and Technology Department in October 2018, bringing expertise in nuclear reactor materials.
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Toward Collaborative Scientific Computing
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Brookhaven is provisioning a suite of software tools and enabling technologies to enable collaboration among geographically dispersed scientists.
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Measuring the Charge of Electrons in a High-Temp Superconductor
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
The measurements could inform the search for new materials that perfectly conduct electricity at relatively higher temperatures.
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Brookhaven Lab and University of Delaware Begin Joint Initiative
Monday, August 12, 2019
The two-year initiative will bring together scientists from both institutions to study rice soil chemistry and quantum materials.
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Building a Network for Long-Distance Quantum Communication
Monday, August 5, 2019
Brookhaven & SBU hope to create the world’s first true quantum internet, which would enhance information transfer and help us solve complex problems.
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Novel Networking
Monday, August 5, 2019
Eden Figueroa, of Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook, is making “beautiful connections” in quantum networks for a more quantum-connected future.
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From Designing to Reprogramming: Intern Steven Snell Spends His Summer at AGS and RHIC
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Undergrad gains hands-on experience upgrading AGS cooling system while learning how to design and build experimental components
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In Memoriam: Christina Swinson-Cruz
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Christina Swinson-Cruz, accelerator physicist and Deputy Director of Brookhaven’s Accelerator Test Facility, died Dec. 12, 2018.
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Meet the User Facility Team: Berndt Mueller and Rosi Reed, RHIC
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
These physicists represent the cooperative vision that identifies the most compelling science for RHIC.
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'The Golden Age of Heavy Ion Collisions'
Thursday, July 11, 2019
RHIC & AGS Annual Users’ Meeting attendees celebrate scientific and technological successes and plan for the future
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Sally Dawson Receives Julius Wess Award
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Brookhaven Lab Physicist, Sally Dawson, will receive the Julius Wess Award for outstanding scientific contributions in theoretical physics.
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Jean Clifford Brutus in Minority Engineer Magazine
Thursday, June 20, 2019
Brookhaven Lab engineer Jean Clifford Brutus is featured on the cover of Minority Engineer magazine. Click to jump to the story.
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New Lab overview video
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Watch this new overview video to see how Brookhaven Lab's discovery science and transformative technology power and secure the nation's future.
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European Physical Society Honors Top-Quark Experiments
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Brookhaven Lab scientists contributed to DZero’s design, construction, software, computing, operations, and data analysis.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Raju Venugopalan to be Honored at Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Lab physicist, Raju Venugopalan, will be recognized as a “highly accomplished Asian American professional” by Suffolk County Asian American Advisory Board.
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Brookhaven Lab and the Belle II Experiment
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tracking particle smashups and detector conditions from half a world away, scientists seek answers to big physics mysteries.
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University of Arizona Physicist Vivian Miranda Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Monday, April 22, 2019
Two talks at Brookhaven Lab will describe how the Dark Energy Survey measures the amount and distribution of mass in the universe.
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Our Favorite Elements
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the chart of the chemical elements, the United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of the Periodic Table. To celebrate, we’ve asked Lab staff to talk about their favorite element and why it’s important to them. Check out our new interactive periodic table to see what they said!
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Putting a New Spin on Majorana Fermions
Monday, April 1, 2019
Scientists have proposed a new theoretical method that could help advance materials for next-gen quantum computers.
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Kick-off of the Belle II Phase 3 Physics Run
Monday, March 25, 2019
Electron-positron collisions have restarted at the SuperKEKB collider, and the Belle II experiment has now kicked off its physics data taking.
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Brookhaven Lab Publishes Second Edition of Nuclear Nonproliferation Textbook
Friday, March 22, 2019
Updating the 2013 edition, the textbook incorporates changes in the IAEA’s safeguards system and documents its verification role in Iran.
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Sea Quark Surprise Reveals Deeper Complexity in Proton Spin Puzzle
Thursday, March 14, 2019
New results from STAR experiment show antiquarks’ contribution to proton spin depends on “flavor”—and in a way that’s opposite to those flavors’ relative abundance.
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PubSci Explores the Building Blocks of Matter
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Three Brookhaven scientists discussed RHIC physics for the 12th installment of PubSci, the Lab’s science café and conversation series.
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SuperKEKB Phase 3 (Belle II Physics Run) Starts
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The Belle II experiment at Japan’s leading particle collider begins taking data with a fully instrumented detector
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African School of Physics
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Program started by Brookhaven’s Ketevi Assamagan featured on Voice of America
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Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Project Leaps Forward
Monday, March 4, 2019
Key approvals allow US efforts to upgrade LHC accelerator components, including magnet work at Fermilab and Brookhaven, to transition into next steps
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Intern Abbi Elger is Helping Photons Travel on the Communication Highway
Friday, March 1, 2019
SULI intern Abbi Elger is researching entangled photons to improve quantum networks that will advance encrypted communications and help connect quantum computers.
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PubSci Science Café and Conversation: Big Bang Physics
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Brookhaven Lab scientists return to Oakdale’s The Snapper Inn to discuss the building blocks of matter.
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BWIS Accepting Applications for 2019 Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The $1,000 award is granted to a female graduate student in physics who is recognized for her substantial promise and accomplishment.
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Radio Telescope Gets Upgrade at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Three new dishes were added to the telescope, which will prepare scientists for a larger project potentially on the horizon.
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Success After a Three-Year Sprint
Friday, January 25, 2019
Large prototype detector for future neutrino experiment shows stellar results
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Meet Raffaele Miceli: Using Math and Physics to Build Visualizations for Discovery Science
Monday, January 14, 2019
Internships in physics and computation helped him bring data to life and explore how quantum computing can accelerate the study of existing theories.
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Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Scientists’ effort to map a portion of the sky in unprecedented detail coming to an end; work to learn more about expansion of universe just beginning.
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2018
Monday, January 7, 2019
From uncovering mysteries of the universe to building better batteries, here are Brookhaven Lab’s top 10 discoveries of 2018.
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Startup Time for Ion Collisions Exploring the Phases of Nuclear Matter
Friday, January 4, 2019
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s 19th year of operations includes search for critical point and tests of beam-cooling system
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Brookhaven Delivers Innovative Magnets for New Energy-Recovery Accelerator
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Test accelerator under construction at Cornell will reuse energy, running beams through multi-pass magnets to keep size and costs down.
2018
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Theory Paper Offers Alternate Explanation for Particle Patterns
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Quantum mechanical interactions among gluons may trigger patterns that mimic formation of quark-gluon plasma in small-particle collisions at RHIC.
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ATLAS Physicist María Moreno Llácer Receives Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
María Moreno Llácer will give a talk on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 3:30 p.m. in the Large Seminar Room of Physics (Bldg. 510) and all are invited.
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Student Exchange Program Established to Honor Late World-Renowned Physicist, Satoshi Ozaki
Monday, December 3, 2018
New graduate student exchange program in honor of late physicist Satoshi Ozaki will help strengthen scientific collaborations between the US and Japan.
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LHC Ends Second Season of Data-Taking
Monday, December 3, 2018
Here’s a look back at what scientists have accomplished during this run so far.
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Physicists Named Gordon Bell Award Finalists for Work on Modeling Neutron Lifespans
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist in the RIKEN/Brookhaven Lab Computing Group, is a member of the team.
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Brookhaven Scientists to Share Their HPC Inspiration at SC18
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Catch up with Brookhaven Lab scientists at SC18 in Dallas as they showcase diverse research in areas impacting HPC and big data management.
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PubSci Science Café and Conversation: Big Bang Physics
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Brookhaven Lab scientists will discuss the building blocks of matter at Oakdale’s The Snapper Inn.
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STAR Detector on the Move
Friday, October 19, 2018
Time lapse video shows STAR detector being rolled out.
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Four Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named Fellows of American Physical Society
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Izubuchi, Sears, Zelenski, and Zaliznyak recognized for their exceptional contributions to physics research, applications, leadership/service, and education.
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In Memoriam: Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate, 96
Friday, October 5, 2018
Co-winner of 1988 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of the muon neutrino at Brookhaven Lab, spent his life as a leader in a range of roles promoting science.
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CERN Courier Article on Electron-Ion Collider
Friday, September 28, 2018
Brookhaven and Jefferson Lab physicists co-author article on scientific goals of proposed future facility.
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Department of Energy Announces $218 Million for Quantum Information Science
Monday, September 24, 2018
Brookhaven will lead and contribute to DOE-funded research aimed at advancing next-gen technologies in computing, sensing, and other areas.
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First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype for International Neutrino Experiment
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world, made with major contributions from Brookhaven Lab, records its first particle tracks.
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STAR Team Receives Secretary's Achievement Award
Monday, September 10, 2018
STAR experiment operators receive recognition for role in enabling discovery of fastest swirling matter.
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Meet David Livoti: Radiofrequency Technician in Collider-Accelerator Department
Friday, August 31, 2018
This former intern now employee helps to maintain radiofrequency systems for particle accelerators.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicists Deliver Key Components for ProtoDUNE Detector
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
State-of-the art “cold” electronics and other components designed by and/or built at Brookhaven Lab will be tested in prototype detector at CERN in preparation for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
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LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Scientists now know the fate of the vast majority of all Higgs bosons produced in the LHC, and are a step closer to understanding how the Higgs and its associated field enable fundamental particles to acquire mass.
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ICARUS Neutrino Detector Installed in new Fermilab Home
Thursday, August 16, 2018
The ICARUS detector, one of the largest particle detectors of its kind in the world, now sits in the path of Fermilab's neutrino beam, getting ready to take data.
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Preventing the Misuse of Next-Generation Nuclear Energy Systems
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Brookhaven Lab nuclear engineer Lap-Yan Cheng has been selected to co-chair a group helping to ensure that future nuclear reactors are designed to meet nonproliferation and national security goals.
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2018 Sambamurti Memorial Lecture Friday, 7/27: 'Capturing the Inner Beauty of the Quark Gluon Plasma'
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
How and why do surprising properties arise when subatomic quarks and gluons are freed from the "strong force" that confines them in an atom’s protons and neutrons? Brookhaven Lab physicist Jin Huang will explain beauty quark physics as well as the planned sPHENIX experiment and its relevance to an electron ion collider.
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Statement by Brookhaven Lab, Jefferson Lab, and the Electron-Ion Collider Users Community on National Academy of Sciences Electron-Ion Collider Report
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
On July 24, 2018, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report of its findings and conclusions related to the science case for a future U.S.-based Electron-Ion Collider and the opportunities it would offer the worldwide nuclear physics community.
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Theorists Publish Highest-Precision Prediction of Muon Magnetic Anomaly
Friday, July 13, 2018
Latest calculation based on how subatomic muons interact with all known particles comes out just in time for comparison with precision measurements at new “Muon g-2” experiment
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Extracting Signals of Elusive Particles from Giant Chambers Filled with Liquefied Argon
Friday, July 6, 2018
A revolutionary new kind of neutrino detector sits at the heart of the MicroBooNE experiment, where scientists use software to “develop” images that trace neutrinos’ interactions in a bath of -303°F liquid argon.
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Meet Claire Lee: Particle Physicist and Non-Traditional Science Communicator
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Particle physicist Claire Lee uses her acting, public speaking, and communication skills to convey her excitement for scientific research.
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2018 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting: 'Illuminating the QCD Landscape'
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Scientists and others with a stake in research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) gathered for their annual users’ meeting at Brookhaven Lab June 12-15.
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ORNL Produces Rare Ruthenium Isotope for Atom Smashing Experiment
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
A tiny vial of gray powder produced at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is key to experiment to exploring the intense magnetic fields created in nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Major Work Starts to Boost the Luminosity of the LHC
Friday, June 15, 2018
CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), a major upgrade that will have considerably improve the performance of the LHC by increasing the number of collisions in the large experiments.
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Meet Daniel Cacace: Designer of Subsystems for sPHENIX Detector
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
From intern to Lab employee, Daniel Cacace is designing subsystems for the sPHENIX detector. Each subsystem will detect and track particles produced in collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, allowing nuclear physicists to explore details of the quark-gluon plasma they create.
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A Boon for Physicists: New Insights into Neutrino Interactions
Friday, June 8, 2018
Physicists on the MicroBooNE collaboration presented their first collection of science results at the international Neutrino 2018 conference in Germany.
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The Perfect Couple: Higgs and Top Quark Spotted Together
Monday, June 4, 2018
Physicists see top quarks and Higgs bosons emanating from the same collisions in new results from the Large Hadron Collider.
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Celebrating 50 Years of Evaluated Nuclear Data
Friday, June 1, 2018
A library of nuclear reaction information first published in 1968 undergoes its eighth major update, which will be used by scientists and engineers worldwide in applications including nuclear physics, astrophysics, energy, medicine, and nonproliferation and safety.
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Nuclear Scientists Calculate Value of Key Property that Drives Neutron Decay
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Supercomputer simulations of neutrons’ inner turmoil and a new method that filters out “noise” yield the highest-ever precision calculation of nucleon axial coupling, a property crucial to predicting neutron lifetime.
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PROSPECTing for Antineutrinos
Friday, May 18, 2018
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) has completed the installation of a novel antineutrino detector that will probe the possible existence of a new form of matter.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Hong Ma to be Honored at Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Brookhaven Physics Department Chair Hong Ma will be honored at the Suffolk County Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration for his contributions to particle and nuclear physics.
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Quark Matter 2018: Nuclear Physicists Gather to Discuss Fundamental Particle Interactions
Friday, May 11, 2018
Nuclear physicists from around the world meet in Venice May 13-19 to discuss the latest results and theoretical interpretations of data from the world’s premiere collider facilities, including the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven Lab.
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Electrons and Positrons Collide for the first time in the SuperKEKB Accelerator
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Electrons and positrons accelerated and stored by the SuperKEKB particle accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan, collided for the first time on April 26, 2018.
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Fermilab Physicist Studying Quirky Behavior of Muons Receives Brookhaven's Leona Woods Lectureship Award
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Tammy Walton will give two talks at Brookhaven Lab to describe her work on the new Muon g-2 experiment now operating at Fermilab. Walton's first talk will be held Tuesday, May 1, at 3:30 p.m. in the Large Seminar Room in Physics (Bldg. 510).
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CERN Experiment Sees Hints of a Rare Kaon Decay
Friday, April 6, 2018
CERN experiment hints at observation of a rare kaon decay adding to prior observations at Brookhaven Lab. A deviation from the predicted rate of this decay could be a clear indicator of physics beyond the Standard Model.
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Lawrence Livermore to lead United States-United Kingdom consortium for demonstrating remote monitoring of nuclear reactors
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Harnessing the unusual characteristics of antineutrinos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will lead a new international collaboration for nonproliferation research. Scientists from Brookhaven Lab played an important role in the design of a demonstration detector for this research.
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SuperKEKB Accelerator Kicks Into New Gear
Thursday, March 22, 2018
KEK has begun a new stage of operation of the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider, with a brand new positron damping ring and the Belle II detector.
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins 18th Year of Experiments
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
First smashups with "isobar" ions and low-energy gold-gold collisions will test earlier hints of exciting discoveries at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as accelerator physicists tune up technologies to enable future science.
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Small Accelerator Promises Big Returns
Friday, March 16, 2018
A new facility called CBETA (Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator) that combines some of the best traits of linear and circular accelerators has recently entered construction at Cornell University in the US.
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Narrowing in on the W Boson Mass
Monday, February 12, 2018
Scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider have precisely measured the mass of the W boson, a particle that plays a weighty role in a delicate balancing act of the quantum universe.
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David Asner Named Deputy Associate Laboratory Director and Head of the Instrumentation Division in Brookhaven Lab's Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate
Thursday, February 8, 2018
A particle physicist with extensive leadership and management experience, Asner will help expand a portfolio of physics programs and oversee instrumentation research and development.
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BWIS Now Accepting Applications for 2018 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Friday, February 2, 2018
BWIS now accepting applications for the 2018 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize.
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Elke-Caroline Aschenauer Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Recognition honors lifetime of contributions to experimental nuclear physics and will help foster collaborations for future research projects at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and beyond.
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Applying Machine Learning to the Universe's Mysteries
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Physicists fed neural networks thousands of images from simulated particle collisions creating quark-gluon plasma to train the computer networks to identify important features.
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Muon Machine Makes Milestone Magnetic Map
Monday, January 29, 2018
The Muon g-2 magnet has begun the important step of measuring the experiment’s magnetic field to unprecedented precision.
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Dark Energy Survey Publicly Releases First Three Years of Data
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey announced the public release of their first three years of data, which includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects.
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Surprising Result Shocks Scientists Studying Spin
Monday, January 8, 2018
Findings on how differently sized nuclei respond to spin offer new insight into mechanisms affecting particle production in proton-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
2017
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Theorists Propose Conditions Needed to Search for New Form of Matter
Monday, December 18, 2017
A pair of physicists provides a theoretical roadmap that could point to the discovery of an exotic magnetically ordered form of matter dubbed a “chiral spin liquid.”
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How to Map the Phases of the Hottest Substance in the Universe
Monday, December 11, 2017
Scientists are searching for the critical point of quark-gluon plasma, the substance that formed just after the Big Bang. Finding where quark-gluon plasma abruptly changes into ordinary matter can reveal new insights.
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High-Performance Computing Cuts Particle Collision Data Prep Time
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing (HPC) to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment—an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed data available for scientific discoveries.
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Five Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named 2017 American Physical Society Fellows
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Anatoly Frenkel, Morgan May, Rachid Nouicer, Eric Stach, and Peter Steinberg were recognized for their outstanding contributions to astrophysics, materials physics, and nuclear physics.
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First Brookhaven-Built Sky-Imaging Sensor Array Arrives at SLAC
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The first of 21 “science rafts” being assembled by a team of technicians, engineers, and scientists at Brookhaven Laboratory for a 3.2-gigapixel sky-imaging camera arrived at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory this week.
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Howard Gordon Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Emeritus status was granted to Howard Gordon of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department, effective Sept. 30. Gordon's 47-year career at the Lab included work with bubble chambers, the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, ATLAS collaboration, and more.
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Celebrate the Unseen: Attend a Dark Matter Day Event
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Today is Dark Matter Day! Join the worldwide celebration of the hunt for the universe’s most elusive matter by participating in a series of “Dark Matter Day” events planned in over a dozen countries.
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New Radio Telescope at Brookhaven Lab Sees Space in a Different Light
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
A new prototype radio telescope has begun observing the universe from Brookhaven National Laboratory. Brookhaven scientists and collaborators will use the small prototype to break into the field of 21 centimeter cosmology—the study of our universe's origins through radio signals emitted by hydrogen gas in distant galaxies.
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Celebrating the Life, Accomplishments of Satoshi Ozaki
Friday, October 20, 2017
Members of the Lab community gathered on Oct. 17 to celebrate Satoshi Ozaki, his life, and his contributions to science. A video replay from “Ozaki Fest” is now available online.
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Using Supercomputers to Delve Ever Deeper into the Building Blocks of Matter
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Scientists to develop next-generation computational tools for studying interactions of quarks and gluons in hot, dense nuclear matter
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Scientists Spot Explosive Counterpart of LIGO/Virgo's Latest Gravitational Waves
Monday, October 16, 2017
Scientists using the Dark Energy Camera have captured images of the aftermath of a neutron star collision, the source of LIGO/Virgo’s most recent gravitational wave detection.
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PubSci Science Café and Conversation: The Dark Universe
Thursday, October 12, 2017
PubSci, Brookhaven National Laboratory's science café and conversation series, is celebrating Dark Matter Day at the pub, with an event on October 24 entitled, “The Dark Universe.” The evening will include discussion and a Q&A with physicists and cosmologists on the mysteries of dark matter.
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Exploring the Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons at the Dawn of the Exascale
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
New effort to develop computational tools will benefit nuclear physics research at world-leading institutions in the U.S. and abroad
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Summer Intern Jaime Avilés Acosta Studies Materials for Ultra-Fast Particle Detector
Friday, October 6, 2017
Indiana University graduate Jaime Avilés Acosta spent ten weeks this summer testing new materials for a detector subsystem that could help reduce the cost and improve the particle-detecting ability of the proposed future sPHENIX experiment.
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Leona Woods Distinguished Postdoctoral Lectureship Award
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Physics Department at Brookhaven Lab has inaugurated a new lectureship award to celebrate the scientific accomplishments of outstanding female physicists and physicists from underrepresented minority groups.
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New Evidence for Small, Short-Lived Drops of Early Universe Quark-Gluon Plasma?
Monday, September 18, 2017
Scientists observe correlated flow of particles emerging from even the lowest-energy, small-scale collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, suggesting that these collisions might be producing tiny, short-lived specks of matter that mimics what the early universe was like nearly 14 billion years ago.
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Abhay Deshpande Named Director of Electron Ion Collider Science at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Abhay Deshpande, a professor of experimental nuclear physics at Stony Brook University, has been named Director of Electron Ion Collider Science at Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective July 1, 2017. Deshpande will hold a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook.
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Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Force Behind Visible Matter
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have established the Center for Frontiers of Nuclear Science to help scientists better understand the building blocks of visible matter. The new Center will push the frontiers of knowledge about quarks, gluons and their interactions that form protons, neutrons, and ultimately 99.9 percent of the mass of atoms—the bulk of the visible universe.
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Three Brookhaven Lab Scientists Selected to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Three scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected by DOE’s Office of Science to receive significant research funding through its Early Career Research Program.
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ATLAS sees first direct evidence of light-by-light scattering at high energy
Monday, August 14, 2017
Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have found the first direct evidence of high energy light-by-light scattering, a very rare process in which two photons – particles of light – interact and change direction.
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MicroBooNE Produces Clearest Images of Neutrino Interactions Yet
Monday, August 7, 2017
The U.S.-based international MicroBooNE collaboration has produced new clean images of neutrino interactions that make it easier for researchers to spot and study the different types of neutrinos.
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Atom-Smashing Fun at Brookhaven Lab this Sunday, 8/6
Friday, August 4, 2017
Last chance for Summer Sundays fun this Sunday, August 6. Explore the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, where particles are smashed together at near-light-speed to reveal the secrets of our universe. Stump a physicist, listen to science talks, and see "Einstein Live!" All activities are on a first-come, first-served basis. Visitors 16 and older must bring a photo ID.
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'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Swirling soup of matter's fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for "vorticity"
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Hideto En'yo Named Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Physicist Hideto En'yo, who is no stranger to Brookhaven Lab, has taken on the role of director for the RIKEN BNL Research Center—a physics research center located at Brookhaven and formed by an international collaboration between the Lab and RIKEN of Japan.
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Long Baseline Neutrino Facility Breaks Ground
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
On July 21, construction began on the first international mega-science experiment ever hosted on U.S. Soil — the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). This international initiative will attempt to solve outstanding mysteries of our universe by studying elusive particles called neutrinos.
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In Memoriam: Satoshi Ozaki
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Satoshi Ozaki, a world-renowned physicist who helped design and build accelerators for scientific research across two continents, died on July 22.
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Dark Matter Day Is Approaching … but Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
On and around October 31, 2017, events around the world will celebrate the hunt for the universe’s unseen dark matter
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Brookhaven Physicist Receives Young Experimental Physicist Prize from European Physical Society
Friday, June 23, 2017
The European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the 2017 Young Experimental Physicist Prize to Xin Qian, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, for his critical contributions to the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment.
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Surprising Stripes in a "Bad Metal" Offer Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, June 5, 2017
High-temperature superconductivity offers perfect conveyance of electricity, but it does so at the price of extreme cold and an ever-elusive mechanism. If understood, scientists might push superconductivity into warmer temperatures and radically enhance power grids, consumer electronics, and more. Now, scientists have broken new ground by approaching from a counter-intuitive angle: probing so-called “bad metals” that conduct electricity poorly.
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Muon Magnet's Moment has Arrived
Thursday, June 1, 2017
The Muon g-2 experiment, relocated to Fermilab, has begun its search for phantom particles with its world-famous and well-traveled electromagnet
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Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow
Friday, May 26, 2017
First results from new precision particle detector designed to reveal detailed properties of subatomic “soup” that mimics the early universe
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Kick-off for the 2017 LHC physics season
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Today, the Large Hadron Collider shifted up a gear, allowing the experiments to start taking data for the first time in 2017.
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Patchogue-Medford High School Student Builds a Remote Sensing System for ATLAS Detector Components
Friday, May 12, 2017
Local high school student builds a remote sensing system to help scientists learn how silicon chips can cope with the tough environmental conditions at the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Low-Energy RHIC Electron Cooling Gets Green Light, Literally
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
New high-power green-light laser will generate beam-cooling electrons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
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Jill Pesce of Smithtown High School East Earns Top Spot in Brookhaven Lab's Twin Anniversary Essay Contest
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Students from across Long Island—from Mineola to Greenport—entered Brookhaven Lab’s essay contest to celebrate our two milestone anniversaries in 2017. Jill Pesce of Smithtown High School East earned the top spot with her essay, titled “70 Years of Collaboration, Celebration, and Acceleration.”
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New Measurements Suggest 'Antineutrino Anomaly' Fueled by Modeling Error
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
A new analysis indicates that a previously observed antineutrino deficit may stem from a miscalculation in the predicted rate of antineutrino production for one particular component of nuclear reactor fuel.
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How did the Proton Get Its Spin?
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Calculating a proton's spin used to be an easy college assignment. But the real answer turned out not to be simple at all.
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A New Ultrafast Camera for Use Across the Sciences
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
TimepixCam pulls together diverse technologies to capture ions and photons for biology, chemistry and more.
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Secrets to Scientific Success: Planning and Coordination
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Brookhaven project manager Xiaofeng Guo oversees schedules, resources, and communication in big physics projects
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Meet Kétévi Assamagan, Physicist and Explorer
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Like many scientists, Brookhaven physicist Kétévi Assamagan is an explorer. Not in the Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea sense, but as someone who has traveled across continents in search of answers to big questions—about antimatter, extra dimensions, and more. Meet Kétévi here.
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Brookhaven Lab's Bjoern Schenke Receives Zimányi Medal
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Theoretical physicist honored for work modeling the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions
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Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Berkeley Lab is leading the construction of a mile-deep experiment that seeks to detect weakly interacting massive particles, a theorized type of dark matter. Brookhaven Lab chemists developed the liquid scintillator that will help veto false signals.
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BWIS Talk: Cosmic Explosions and their Exotic Remnants
Monday, February 13, 2017
Rosalba Perna, a physicist from Stony Brook University, will give a talk on gamma-ray bursts, neutron stars, and black holes.
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Two Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named 2016 American Physical Society Fellows
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Michiko Minty and Peter Petreczky honored for their work in accelerator physics and nuclear physics theory
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Exploring the Matter that Filled the Early Universe
Monday, February 6, 2017
Quark Matter 2017 conference brings together nuclear physicists seeking to understand the force that binds the building blocks of visible matter
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sPHENIX Gets CD0 for Upgrade to Experiment Tracking the Building Blocks of Matter
Friday, January 13, 2017
The Department of Energy has granted “Critical Decision-Zero” status to the sPHENIX project, a transformation of one of the particle detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) into a research tool with unprecedented precision for tracking subatomic interactions.
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Theory Provides Roadmap in Quest for Quark Soup 'Critical Point'
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial plasma to matter as we know it.
2016
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Raju Venugopalan Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Senior physicist is recognized for excellence and longstanding contributions in the field of theoretical nuclear physics.
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Dark Interactions Workshop Hosts Physicists from Around the World
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Dozens of experimental and theoretical physicists convened at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in October for the second biennial Dark Interactions Workshop.
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Brookhaven Lab 'Higgs Hunter' Sally Dawson Receives J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Dawson and three long-term colleagues were recognized for instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson.
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Modernizing the Format of Nuclear Data
Friday, October 21, 2016
Brookhaven physicists are helping modernize data stored at the National Nuclear Data Center.
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Mathematician Moira Chas of Stony Brook University to Give Talk on Topology at Brookhaven Lab, 10/27
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Stony Brook University mathematician, Moira Chas, will discuss how topologists approach the questions of space and shape and how shapes can fold in on themselves, shrink, expand, curve, or behave in ways not considered possible.
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Scientists Find Static "Stripes" of Electrical Charge in Copper-Oxide Superconductor
Friday, October 14, 2016
Understanding the electronic ordering in copper-oxide superconductors could help scientists find the "recipe" for raising the temperature at which current can flow through these materials without energy loss.
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Still No 'Sterile' Neutrinos, But the Search Goes On
Friday, October 7, 2016
Reports of the non-existence of the so-called “sterile” neutrino are premature, say scientists at Brookhaven Lab—even as they release results from two experiments that further limit the places this elusive particle may be hiding.
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Enhancing the Superconducting Properties of an Iron-Based Material
Thursday, October 6, 2016
By bombarding the material with low-energy protons, scientists doubled the amount of current the material could carry without resistance, while raising the temperature at which this superconducting state emerges. Their method could be used to improve the performance of superconducting wires and tapes for electric vehicles, wind turbines, medical imaging devices, and other applications.
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Room-Temp Superconductors Could Be Possible
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory are getting closer to understanding what makes materials become superconducting at unusually high temperatures.
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Simple Math, Antimatter, and the Birth of the Universe
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Rebecca Siddall, a high school research student from Oundle, UK, describes what she learned about antimatter from members of the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar Jess McIver to Give Talk on Gravitational Waves, 9/22
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Jess McIver, a postdoctoral scholar in experimental physics at California Institute of Technology will give a talk, "LIGO and the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy." The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed to open the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics through the direct detection of gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Brookhaven Lab Community Bids Farewell to 2016 Summer Science Research Students
Monday, September 12, 2016
Coming from as far away as Puerto Rico, Texas, and California, Brookhaven Lab's diverse group of summer interns joined world-renowned mentors on projects in all areas of Brookhaven’s work.
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The Next Generation
Monday, September 12, 2016
Select student profiles and statistics on the 2016 summer science research interns
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Graduate Student Eric Metodiev Finds Freedom and His Voice in Physics
Monday, August 22, 2016
Nearly every summer since 10th grade, Eric Metodiev, now 22, has participated in educational programs sponsored by Brookhaven National Lab. He graduated from Harvard in May with a joint degree in physics and mathematics and will start graduate work at MIT this fall, but has already had the opportunity to make a real contribution in his chosen field.
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Scientists Uncover the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide Compound
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Brookhaven physicist Ivan Bozovic and his team have an explanation for why certain materials can conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures well above those required by conventional superconductors. Understanding this exotic behavior may pave the way for engineering materials that become superconducting at room temperature—a capability that could transform the way energy is produced, transmitted, and used.
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Big PanDA Tackles Big Data for Physics and Other Future Extreme Scale Scientific Applications
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Physicists tap into pockets of available time on a supercomputer to crunch data for the world's most powerful particle collider, demonstrating a new tool for making efficient use of limited, expensive computational resources.
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Recalling Quark Matter '83 and the Birth of RHIC
Monday, August 15, 2016
Former Brookhaven Lab Physics Department Chair Tom Ludlam recalls the seminal Quark Matter ’83 meeting, where a large community of nuclear and high energy physicists set the stage for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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New Results on the Higgs Boson and the Building Blocks of Matter Presented at ICHEP
Monday, August 8, 2016
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performance surpasses expectations; results confirm the Higgs particle, show “bump” appears to be a statistical fluctuation, and offer insight into quark-gluon plasma at high energies complementary to those explored at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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Early-universe Soup
Thursday, August 4, 2016
A story from DEIXIS: Computational Science at the National Laboratories describes the interplay of experiment and theory needed to explore the phase diagram of nuclear matter, including the hot-flowing quark-gluon plasma of the early universe that is recreated in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.
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Scientists Model the "Flicker" of Gluons in Subatomic Smashups
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
A new model identifies fluctuations in the glue-like particles that bind quarks within protons as essential to explaining experimental data on proton structure.
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Summer Sundays: Atom-Smashing Fun, July 31
Friday, July 29, 2016
Visit the Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider – the only particle collider in the United States. Come see where physicists study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. Attend a science talk about the discovery of the Higgs Boson, participate in hands-on activities, try to stump a physicist, and see the “Phenomenal Physics” show! All activities are on a first-come, first-served basis. Visitors 16 and older must bring a photo ID.
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Dark Energy Measured With Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Using the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies, a team of physicists and astronomers have made the best measurements yet of the effects of dark energy on the expansion of the Universe.
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Hong Ma Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Hong Ma will oversee some of the Lab's premiere research programs, a staff of 244, and an annual budget of about $100 million for nuclear and particle physics.
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Francesco Lanni of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Francesco Lanni was awarded tenure for his significant contributions to particle physics through the successful construction and operation of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider as well as his innovative ideas and leadership for advanced detector research and development programs that led to the ongoing ATLAS upgrade.
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Marc-André Pleier of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Marc-André Pleier was awarded tenure for his significant contributions to tests of the Standard Model of particle physics by using data from hadron colliders to measure electroweak processes, particularly vector boson scattering with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Lijuan Ruan of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Lijuan Ruan was awarded tenure for her seminal contributions to the study of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Erin Sheldon of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Erin Sheldon was awarded tenure for his pioneering work on weak gravitational lensing—potentially the most powerful technique for studying dark energy.
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How Maglev Works
Thursday, June 23, 2016
The history of Maglev starts at Brookhaven. Read on in this Energy.gov blog post to learn more about how the technology works and what it could mean for the future of transportation.
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Introducing…sPHENIX!
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
A new collaboration takes aim at understanding how the ultra-hot, ultra-dense plasma that formed our early universe gets its intriguing properties.
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Superconducting Magnet Powers Up After Cross-Country Journey
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Solenoid passes major test before its second lifetime in a particle detector upgrade at RHIC.
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Calorimeter Components Put to the Test
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Brookhaven scientists, students, and university partners help build and test key components for a possible future RHIC detector upgrade.
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Scientists Find Surprising Magnetic Excitations in a Metallic Compound
Friday, June 3, 2016
Findings could lead to new ways of harnessing magnetism for computer components.
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PROSPECT Experiment's Search for Sterile Neutrinos Garners $3M DOE Grant
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
An experiment led by Yale University with partners from four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, and 10 universities will explore key questions about elusive particles called neutrinos.
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Large Hadron Collider Prepares to Deliver Six Times the Data
Monday, May 9, 2016
Experiments at the LHC are once again recording collisions at extraordinary energies to explore the properties of the fundamental building blocks of matter and look for new particles and forces.
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DOE's Office of Science Selects 49 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science has selected 49 scientists from across the nation – including 22 from DOE's national laboratories and 27 from U.S. universities – to receive significant funding for research as part of DOE's Early Career Research Program.
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A View of the Colorful Microcosm Within a Proton
Monday, March 28, 2016
Probing the "color" interactions among quarks tests a theoretical concept of nature's strongest force to pave a way toward mapping protons' 3D internal structure.
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512th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 2/24: "Quarks, Gluons & Lattice QCD: Cooking the 'Perfect' Soup With Supercomputers"
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Up next during the 512th Brookhaven Lecture, Swagato Mukherjee will tell you about the "perfect" soup physicists can't get enough of. Not some thick, lumpy chowder—a nearly perfect liquid made from some of the universe's most basic ingredients. Plus, he'll show you "kitchens" around the world, where he's using powerful supercomputers to fine-tune the recipe.
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Physicists Zoom in on Gluons' Contribution to Proton Spin
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Latest data from high-energy proton collisions at RHIC indicate that “wimpy” gluons have a big impact on proton spin, and gluons overall may contribute more than quarks.
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Most Precise Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum Reveals Intriguing Surprise
Friday, February 12, 2016
Members of the International Daya Bay Collaboration, who track the production and flavor-shifting behavior of electron antineutrinos generated at a nuclear power complex in China, have obtained the most precise measurement of these subatomic particles' energy spectrum ever recorded.
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Brookhaven Lab's Role in the Analysis of Reactor Antineutrino Energy Spectrum and Flux
Friday, February 12, 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory plays multiple roles in the Daya Bay Collaboration, ranging from project management to data analysis.
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Chiral Magnetic Effect Generates Quantum Current
Monday, February 8, 2016
Scientists at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University have discovered a new way to generate very low-resistance electric current in a new class of materials.
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Four Brookhaven Lab Researchers Elected as 2015 American Physical Society Fellows
Monday, February 1, 2016
The American Physical Society, the world's largest physics organization, has named four researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory as 2015 APS Fellows.
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New Theory of Secondary Inflation Expands Options for Avoiding an Excess of Dark Matter
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Physicists suggest a smaller secondary inflationary period in the moments after the Big Bang could account for the abundance of the mysterious matter.
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Brookhaven Lab Expands Computational Science Initiative
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Building on its capabilities in data-intensive science, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has expanded its Computational Science Initiative (CSI). The programs within this initiative leverage computational science, computer science, and mathematics expertise and investments across multiple research areas at the Laboratory.
2015
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2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
From creating the tiniest drops of primordial particle soup to devising new ways to improve batteries, catalysts, superconductors, and more, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory pushed the boundaries of discovery in 2015.
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Brookhaven Scientists to Lead Two New Nuclear Theory Collaborative Projects
Monday, December 28, 2015
Theoretical physicists from Brookhaven National Laboratory will serve as principal investigators for two of three recently announced collaborative projects exploring the theoretical underpinnings of nuclear physics.
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CERN and U.S. Increase Cooperation
Monday, December 21, 2015
The United States and the European physics laboratory have formally agreed to partner on continued LHC research, upcoming neutrino research, and a future collider. Read the Symmetry story.
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Brookhaven Lab's Deputy Director for Science & Technology Robert Tribble Honored by American Physical Society
Friday, December 18, 2015
Robert Tribble is recognized by the American Physical Society for his extraordinary leadership and contributions to the field of nuclear physics.
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RHIC Particle Smashups Find that Shape Matters
Monday, December 7, 2015
Scientists colliding football- and sphere-shaped ions discover evidence supporting a paradigm shift in the birth of the quark-gluon plasma.
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Producing Cold Electron Beams to Increase Collision Rates at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Monday, December 7, 2015
Engineers and physicists team up on new technology for keeping particle beams tightly packed, with possible applications at a future electron ion collider and other facilities.
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Revamped LHC goes Heavy Metal
Monday, November 30, 2015
For the next three weeks physicists at the Large Hadron Collider will cook up the oldest form of matter in the universe by switching their subatomic fodder from protons to lead ions.
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Supercomputing the Strange Difference Between Matter and Antimatter
Friday, November 20, 2015
An international team of physicists has published the first calculation of direct "CP" symmetry violation—how the behavior of subatomic kaons differs when matter is swapped out for antimatter.
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Brookhaven Lab Intern Prachi Chitnis Receives European Physical Society Award
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Prachi Chitnis, a Stony Brook University student mentored by Kevin Brown, a scientist at Brookhaven Lab’s Collider-Accelerator Department, has been awarded the European Physical Society Award recognizing her rigorous research analyzing the reliability and vulnerabilities of collider detector systems that are important to experimental runs at the Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Neutrino Researchers Win 'Breakthrough Prize' in Fundamental Physics
Monday, November 9, 2015
Five experiments conducting research on the subtle transformations of ghostlike subatomic neutrinos, including the international Daya Bay Collaboration, have been awarded a "Breakthrough Prize" in fundamental physics.
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The Baffling Behavior of the Beauty Quark
Friday, November 6, 2015
Stefan Meinel, a research fellow at the RIKEN BNL Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an assistant professor of physics at the University of Arizona, has been awarded the 2015 Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence in Lattice Field Theory.
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Antiprotons at STAR on NPR
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Physicists probe antimatter for clues to how it all began.
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Physicists Measure Force that Makes Antimatter Stick Together
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first time measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons.
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A Neutrino in a Haystack: Brookhaven's Contributions to the MicroBooNE Neutrino Experiment
Monday, November 2, 2015
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, trillions of neutrinos will fly through your body. Did you feel them? Probably not. That is because, despite their abundance, neutrinos rarely interact with matter; a neutrino can pass through a light-year of lead—about six trillion miles—without disturbing a single atom.
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Cold Electronics Help Scientists Spot Elusive 'Ghost' Particles
Monday, November 2, 2015
Brookhaven engineers design microelectronics that operate in extreme cold, enabling the next generation of neutrino science.
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LHC Luminosity Upgrade Project Moving to Next Phase
Thursday, October 29, 2015
This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC – a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will increase the accelerator's discovery potential.
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508th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 10/21: 'Using Nuclei to Catch Shape-Shifting Protons in the Act: One Hypothesis, Two Colliders'
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
During the 508th Brookhaven Lecture, Goldhaber Fellow Dennis Perepelitsa will discuss his hypothesis that protons with most of their energy concentrated in single quarks or gluons are particularly small and shaped differently too. He will then describe his analysis of data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider to test his hypothesis.
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Statement on Nuclear Science Advisory Committee 2015 Recommendations for Nuclear Physics Research
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Brookhaven National Laboratory Director Doon Gibbs issues a statement in support of the NSAC recommendations for future research directions in nuclear physics.
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Brookhaven Physicist Dennis Perepelitsa Named Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Physicist Dennis Perepelitsa, a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a 2015 Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist in Physical Sciences & Engineering.
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Brookhaven Lab's Links to 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory joins in the worldwide celebration of physicists Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald, who were awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for their roles in demonstrating the “flavor-changing” property of neutrinos. Brookhaven Lab scientists made important contributions to these neutrino experiments, fueled by the Lab’s legacy in the study of these abundant yet elusive subatomic particles.
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Brookhaven Lab Scientist Veljko Radeka Shares Inaugural American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields Instrumentation Award
Monday, October 5, 2015
The inaugural American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields Instrumentation Award has been presented jointly to David Nygren of the University of Texas at Arlington and Veljko Radeka of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Nygren and Radeka received the award during the APS "New Technologies for Discovery" Workshop on October 5, 2015, at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Quark Matter 2015: Scientists Present, Discuss Latest Data from Experiments Smashing Nuclei at the Speed of Light
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Scientists intent on unraveling the mystery of the force that binds the building blocks of visible matter are gathered in Kobe, Japan, this week to present and discuss the latest results from "ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions" at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.
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Latest RHIC Results Presented at Quark Matter 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Learn more about the latest RHIC results.
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Best Precision Yet for Neutrino Measurements at Daya Bay
Friday, September 11, 2015
The latest findings involve measurements that track the way neutrinos change types or flavors as they move, a characteristic called neutrino oscillation, which could offer insight into fundamental physics questions.
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Combined results find Higgs still standard
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
The ATLAS and CMS experiments on the Large Hadron Collider were designed to be partners in discovery.
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ATLAS and CMS experiments shed light on Higgs properties
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations present for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties.
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World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
The Department of Energy has approved the start of construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera – the world's largest – at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
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Tiny Drops of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid
Monday, August 31, 2015
First results from collisions of three-particle ions with gold nuclei reveal clear-cut evidence of primordial soup's signature particle flow.
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BWIS Lecture: 'Unexpected Unions: A Physicist's Dip into the Art and Design World'
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Can science inspire art and fashion? Join Ágnes Mócsy, theoretical physicist from Brookhaven Lab and Pratt Institute, for a lecture, “Unexpected Unions: A Physicist's Dip into the Art and Design World,” on Thursday, July 30, 4:30 p.m. in the Physics Large Conference Room (Bldg. 510). All are welcome.
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2015 Sambamurti Lecture Tuesday, 7/21: 'Seeking the Origin of Asymmetry'
Friday, July 17, 2015
Brookhaven Lab physicist Xin Qian will present the 2015 Sambamurti Memorial Lecture, titled “Seeking the Origin of Asymmetry,” on Tuesday, July 21.
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Howard Gordon Garners U.S. ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award
Monday, July 13, 2015
On June 25, the U.S. ATLAS Collaboration honored Gordon with a U.S. ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual workshop.
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Big PanDA and Titan Merge to Tackle Torrent of LHC's Full-Energy Collision Data
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Pairing up software developed at Brookhaven Lab and UT Arlington with the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open scientific research has broad potential to maximize the use of available supercomputing resources for high-energy physics and other data-intensive fields.
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Upgrades to ATLAS and LHC Magnets for Run 2 and Beyond
Monday, July 6, 2015
Brookhaven physicists play critical roles in LHC restart and plans for the future of particle physics.
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X-Rays and Electrons Join Forces To Map Catalytic Reactions in Real-Time
Monday, June 29, 2015
New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron x-rays at Brookhaven Lab to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions.
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Celebrating a Decade of Brewing Perfection
Friday, June 26, 2015
Nuclear physicists take a look back and forward at the 2015 RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting.
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Scientists See Ripples of a Particle-Separating Wave In Primordial Plasma
Monday, June 8, 2015
New evidence for a “chiral magnetic wave” rippling through the soup of quark-gluon plasma created at RHIC.
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Brookhaven Lab 'Higgs Hunter' Sally Dawson Receives Humboldt Research Award
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Sally Dawson, a theoretical physicist at Brookhaven Lab, has received a prestigious Humboldt Research Award, which includes an invitation to spend up to a year in Germany working on precise calculations for the long-sought Higgs boson.
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U.S. Joins the World in a New Era of Research at the Large Hadron Collider
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
New LHC data gives researchers from around the world their best chance yet to study the Higgs boson and search for dark matter and new particles.
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Energy Secretary Moniz Announces 2014 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Winners
Monday, June 1, 2015
Physicist Mei Bai has been named a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for her contributions to Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the advancement of understanding "spin" physics.
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A goldmine of scientific research
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
There’s more than gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota. For longer than five decades, the Homestake mine has hosted scientists searching for particles impossible to detect on Earth’s surface—and it all began with the Davis Cavern.
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Brookhaven Lab's Accelerator Test Facility Named a DOE Office of Science User Facility
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
New designation of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s ATF coincides with major facility upgrades and expansions to accommodate growing demand of users from industry and academia.
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Lab Employee Robert Malone Helps U.S. Air Force Get Ready for Take-Off
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Robert Malone, a key team member of Brookhaven Lab’s Accelerator Test Facility, assisted the United States Air Force by providing them with important information on software that would enhance their computer control systems.
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Intense Lasers Cook Up Complex, Self-Assembled Nanomaterials
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
New technique developed at Brookhaven Lab makes self-assembly 1,000 times faster and could be used for industrial-scale solar panels and electronics.
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U.S.-CERN Agreement Paves Way for New Era of Scientific Discovery
Thursday, May 7, 2015
A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed today will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new insights into fundamental particles and the nature of matter and our universe.
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Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Brookhaven Lab to Map Melted Matter
Friday, May 1, 2015
A 20-ton superconducting magnet traveled from California’s SLAC Lab to New York’s Brookhaven Lab as part of a proposed upgrade to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s PHENIX detector.
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Galaxy-Gazing Telescope Sensors Pass Important Vision Tests
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Sensors for the camera of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) just received very promising “vision” test results from physicists at Brookhaven Lab.
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Explorations of Quarks and Gluons in Scientific American
Friday, April 17, 2015
Brookhaven and Jefferson Lab physicists recap what we know and still want to find out about how gluons glue the universe together.
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U.S. Scientists Celebrate the Restart of the Large Hadron Collider
Sunday, April 5, 2015
After two years of upgrades and repairs, proton beams once again circulated around the Large Hadron Collider, located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
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A Tale of Two Colliders, One Thesis, Two Awards—and a Physics Mystery
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Dennis Perepelitsa, a Brookhaven Lab physicist exploring the mysteries of nuclear physics at RHIC and the LHC, has the distinction of being the first person to earn outstanding Ph.D. thesis awards from both research communities.
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LHC Experiments Join Forces to Zoom in on the Higgs Boson
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The LHC's ATLAS and CMS experiments presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson. It is the most precise measurement of the Higgs boson mass yet and among the most precise measurements performed at the LHC to date.
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Four Scientists With Major Contributions to Research at Brookhaven Lab Named American Physical Society Fellows
Friday, March 13, 2015
Four scientists who have made significant contributions to ongoing research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory were among those recently named Fellows of the American Physical Society, the world's second-largest organization of physicists.
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Searching for Signs of a Force from the 'Dark Side' in Particle Collisions at RHIC
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and other experiments nearly rule out role of "dark photons" as an explanation for the "g-2" anomaly.
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In Memoriam: Val Fitch
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Val Fitch, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a discovery made at Brookhaven Lab's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), died on Feb. 5 at age 91.
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Smashing Polarized Protons to Uncover Spin and Other Secrets
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
If you want to unravel the secrets of proton spin, put a "twist" in your colliding proton beams. The latest round of these collisions has just begun at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and will continue for the next nine weeks.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Ágnes Mócsy
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Ágnes Mócsy, a theoretical physicist and tenured associate professor at Pratt Institute, one of the world’s prestigious art and design universities, hopes to convey the sense of awe she experienced as a grad student working on research at RHIC.
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Gearing Up for RHIC Run 15
Monday, January 12, 2015
With the cooldown of superconducting magnets set to start in just a little over a week, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is gearing up for its 15th year of physics operations in a run that will last 22 weeks.
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World's Most Powerful Camera Receives Funding Approval
Friday, January 9, 2015
The 3,200-megapixel centerpiece of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will provide unprecedented details of the universe and help address some of its biggest mysteries, has received key "Critical Decision 2" approval from the DOE.
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2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, January 5, 2015
From new insights into the building blocks of matter to advances in understanding batteries, superconductors, and a protein that could help fight cancer, 2014 was a year of stunning successes for the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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New Matter, Mathematical Models & Larry McLerran
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Larry McLerran's decades-long quest to make sense of the laws governing the Universe's most basic building blocks has taken him from the United States' West Coast to its East, and even as far as China. Now, the American Physical Society is recognizing him for outstanding lifetime achievements in nuclear physics theory.
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Infographic: RHIC Cooks Up a Quantum Tempest in a Teacup
Monday, November 10, 2014
What would happen if you poured RHIC's ultra-hot primordial plasma into a teacup—admittedly a tall order—and began to stir?
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Women @ Energy: Mary Bishai
Friday, November 7, 2014
Meet Mary Bishai, one of several scientists from Brookhaven Lab featured in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2014 Women @ Energy series. Find out what excites her, her advice for aspiring scientists, and more.
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Physicists Narrow Search for Solution to Proton Spin Puzzle
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Results from experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveal new insights about how quarks and gluons, the subatomic building blocks of matter, contribute to proton “spin.”
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Women @ Energy: Jessica Metcalfe
Friday, October 31, 2014
Meet Jessica Metcalfe, one of several scientists from Brookhaven Lab featured in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2014 Women @ Energy series. Find out what excites her, her advice for aspiring scientists, and more.
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Toyota to Use Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials to Advance Vehicle Battery Tech
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Scientists will collaborate with Brookhaven Lab experts and use world-leading electron microscopes to explore the real-time electrochemical reactions in promising new batteries.
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Tracking Heat-Driven Decay in Leading Electric Vehicle Batteries
Monday, October 27, 2014
Scientists reveal the atomic-scale structural and electronic degradations that plague rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and make them vulnerable during high-temperature operations.
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New High Speed Transatlantic Network to Benefit Science Collaborations Across the U.S.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Scientists across the U.S. will soon have access to new, ultra high-speed network links spanning the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to a project currently underway to extend ESnet (the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network) to London, Amsterdam and Geneva.
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DOE's High-Speed Network to Boost Big Data Transfers by Extending 100G Connectivity across Atlantic
Monday, October 20, 2014
DOE's Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, is deploying four new high-speed transatlantic links, giving researchers at America's national laboratories and universities ultra-fast access to scientific data.
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Brookhaven Lab Names Former Director Nicholas Samios Senior Scientist Emeritus
Friday, October 17, 2014
Nicholas Samios, a former Brookhaven Lab director whose career as a Lab employee spanned 55 years, was named senior scientist emeritus when he retired Sept. 30, 2014.
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498th Brookhaven Lecture Wednesday, 10/22: 'Vector Boson Scattering: Watching the Higgs Boson at Work with the ATLAS Particle Detector'
Friday, October 17, 2014
With the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants squaring off for the 2014 World Series, professional photographers at the games will rely on cameras that weigh about 3.5 pounds and can shoot up to 14 photos per second. When high-energy protons face off for head-on collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists from Brookhaven Lab and 177 other institutions rely on the ATLAS detector, a "camera" weighing more than 15.4 million pounds that can snap 40 million "pictures" per second.
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Séamus Davis Selected to Receive New Grant for Exploring Exotic Quantum Phenomena
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
A physicist who explores the quantum quirks of high-temperature superconductors and other exotic materials at Brookhaven Lab and Cornell University has been selected to receive a new grant to delve further into the mysteries of quantum materials.
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Unstoppable Magnetoresistance
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Scientists discovered a material whose magnetoresistance displayed unlimited growth, making it the only known material without a saturation point. Essential electron microscopy studies were performed by Jing Tao at Brookhaven Lab.
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Cooking Up Quark-Gluon Plasma with 'Science Friday'
Friday, October 10, 2014
Brookhaven Lab's Media & Communications Office hosted a video crew from Science Friday on NPR to learn about how our physicists cook up quark-gluon plasma.
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A Closer Look at the Perfect Fluid
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and their collaborators have honed a way to probe the quark-gluon plasma, the kind of matter that dominated the universe immediately after the big bang, recreated regularly in particle ion collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Europe's Large Hadron Collider.
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Brookhaven and the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory plays multiple roles in the Daya Bay experiment, ranging from management to data analysis.
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Hide & Seek: Sterile Neutrinos Remain Elusive
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
The Daya Bay neutrino experiment publishes a new result on its first search for a "sterile" neutrino, a particle that would have a profound impact on our understanding of the universe, and could impact the design of future neutrino experiments.
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Fundamental Physics Lessons in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Nearly four thousand miles east of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven Lab, 56 students and 36 scientists gathered in the sub-Saharan nation of Senegal to talk physics at the 2014 African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications last month.
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NASA Space Radiation School is Totally Radical
Monday, September 22, 2014
Students spent the summer studying the potential biological effects of deep space radiation by learning to detect DNA-driven cell changes caused by ion beams from Brookhaven Lab’s particle accelerators.
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497th Brookhaven Lecture Wednesday, 9/24: 'Supercomputing Fundamental Particle & Nuclear Physics'
Monday, September 22, 2014
Can you imagine solving an equation with more than 100 million variables to unlock mysteries of the universe's most basic building blocks? Join Taku Izubuchi of the Physics Department for the 497th Brookhaven Lecture, titled "Supercomputing Fundamental Particle & Nuclear Physics," in Berkner Hall at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24.
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Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero
Monday, September 15, 2014
Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University researchers measured a magnetic material's ultra-cold quantum fluctuations to guide the design of new high-performance materials.
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Brookhaven Lab's Michael Creutz Named Senior Scientist Emeritus, to Be Honored at 'CreutzFest' 9/4 & 9/5
Monday, September 1, 2014
Michael Creutz of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department, who was named Senior Scientist Emeritus upon retiring in January 2014, will be honored during CreutzFest on Sept. 4 and 5.
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Brookhaven Physicist Ivan Bozovic Elected to European Academy of Sciences
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Ivan Bozovic has been elected to Academia Europea—the European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences—in recognition of his lifetime achievements in advancing research and theory on superconductors and other complex materials.
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Brookhaven Lab's Alexei Tsvelik Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Friday, August 22, 2014
Alexei M. Tsvelik, a senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for his internationally renowned academic accomplishments.
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First Indirect Evidence of So-Far Undetected Strange Baryons
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
New supercomputing calculations provided the first evidence that particles predicted by the theory of quark-gluon interactions but never before observed are being produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Promising Ferroelectric Materials Suffer From Unexpected Electric Polarizations
Monday, August 18, 2014
Brookhaven Lab scientists found surprising head-to-head charge polarizations that impede performance in next-generation ferroelectric materials that could otherwise revolutionize data-driven devices.
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RHIC Featured in 'How The Universe Works' on the Science Channel
Thursday, August 14, 2014
If you want to know how the universe works, part of the answer lies in understanding the building blocks of matter—before they became inextricably bound within the protons, neutrons, and atoms that make up everything visible in our universe today.
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New Grant to Aid Search for the Secrets of Superconductivity
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Research aimed at unlocking the secrets of high-temperature superconductivity will get a boost from a new grant awarded to Lab physicist Ivan Bozovic by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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Dark Interactions Workshop Brings Global Physicists to Brookhaven Lab
Monday, August 11, 2014
Physicists from around the world met at Brookhaven Lab to discuss theory and experiments aimed at searching for dark sector particles, which make up a mysterious substance called dark matter.
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A New Look for RHIC & Sharper View of QCD: Looking Back at the 2014 RHIC-AGS Users' Meeting
Friday, August 8, 2014
Nearly 200 scientists trekked to Brookhaven Lab—some from nearby, others from institutions as far as Europe and Asia—to talk about these important topics for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) user communities, and the Lab.
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RHIC Run 14: A Flawless 'Run of Firsts'
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider produced more gold-gold collisions this year than all previous runs combined, and collided helium-3 and gold for the first time.
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National Science Foundation To Support Start of Construction for the LSST
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
The National Science Foundation (NSF) agreed on Friday to support the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) to manage the construction of the dark-energy-hunting Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).
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496th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 7/23: 'Special PET Scans Seeking Symmetry in Quark-Gluon Plasma'
Friday, July 18, 2014
Brookhaven Lab has made some significant contributions to advance positron emission tomography (PET) techniques commonly used to diagnose cancer and study brain activity. Today at the Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, scientists are using a different kind of positron tomography to probe for clues in ultra-hot seas of subatomic quarks and gluons.
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Supercomputers Reveal Strange, Stress-Induced Transformations in World's Thinnest Materials
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Columbia researchers used Brookhaven Lab supercomputer simulations to map and compare the transformations and breaking points of graphene and other super-strong monolayers.
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Physicists Detect Process Even Rarer than the Long-Sought Higgs Particle
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Scientists running the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful “atom smasher,” report the first evidence of a process that can be used to test the mechanism by which the recently discovered Higgs particle imparts mass to other fundamental particles.
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'Glamorous Gluons': RHIC's Quark Gluon Plasma Through an Artist's Eyes
Monday, July 7, 2014
When artist Sarah Szabo learned about the physics going on at Brookhaven Lab, she was inspired to create the art exhibit “Glamorous Gluons” to visualize the science.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Debasish Das
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
At RHIC, Debasish Das learned a sense of discipline and how to share credit within a large collaboration — valuable lessons he applies and imparts to his own students today.
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New Laser Ion Source for Brookhaven Accelerators Exceeds Expectations
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
In March, a new Laser Ion Source started operating at Brookhaven Lab, feeding singly ionized atoms into the particle accelerators that supply beams to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory.
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Funding Renewed for Brookhaven's Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center
Friday, June 20, 2014
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced an extension of funding totaling $14 million over four years for the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center led by Brookhaven Lab with partners from the University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratory.
Michael Begel of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Friday, June 20, 2014
Michael Begel of the Physics Department was granted tenure based on his notable contributions to particle physics through the analysis of data from the ATLAS experiment, and his corresponding leadership in applying these data to tests of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in high-energy collisions and the search for supersymmetry (SUSY) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Taku Izubuchi of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Friday, June 20, 2014
Physicist Taku Izubuchi of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department has been awarded tenure for his pioneering accomplishments and leadership contributions in computational approaches to the study of QCD—the theory that describes subatomic quarks, gluons, and their interactions inside protons, neutrons, and mesons. His "lattice gauge formulations," which break these complex physics problems into solvable pieces, have resulted in significant advances in theoretical calculations that enable fundamental measurements in particle physics.
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George Redlinger of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department Granted Tenure
Friday, June 20, 2014
Physicist George Redlinger of Brookhaven Lab's Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate was awarded tenure for his significant contributions to particle physics, particularly through recent analysis of data from the LHC. Redlinger helps lead an international collaboration seeking SUSY—one of the most theoretically compelling extensions of the Standard Model—at the LHC's ATLAS experiment.
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Masahiro Okamura of Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department Granted Tenure
Friday, June 20, 2014
Accelerator physicist Masahiro Okamura of Brookhaven Lab's Collider-Accelerator Department was awarded tenure for his significant contributions to the Laboratory's mission of designing, constructing, and operating complex research facilities, in particular the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL).
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Physicists at Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference Look Forward
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Physicists gathered at the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference in New York City June 2-7 say the future holds promise for significant discoveries and opportunities for greater globalization.
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'Particle Fever' Screening Packed the House at the Cinema Arts Centre
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Brookhaven Lab hosted a screening of "Particle Fever," a documentary that follows six scientists during the years leading up to the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Scientists Pinpoint the Creeping Nanocrystals Behind Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Two breakthrough studies led by national labs reveal the nanoscale structural changes that degrade battery performance during cycles of charge and discharge.
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Proposed Plan for the Future of U.S. Particle Physics
Thursday, May 22, 2014
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s report recommends a strategic path forward for U.S. particle physics.
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Statement on the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Report to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP)
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Physicists serving on the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5)—a subcommittee of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) that advises the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation—today submitted a report with recommendations on the future of the field.
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MIT/National Labs Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
A multidisciplinary group solves the mystery of how a potential battery electrode material behaves.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Wu-Tsung Weng to be Honored at Asian American Celebration
Monday, May 19, 2014
BNL physicist Wu-Tsung Weng will be honored as a distinguished Asian-American professional for his contributions to accelerator science.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Daniel Magestro
Monday, May 19, 2014
Daniel Magestro—a master of data analytics from physics to finance, health care, and more—got his start at RHIC’s STAR detector.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory Presents "Particle Fever" Movie Screening
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The acclaimed documentary follows the story of six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider and gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough they make as they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe.
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Three Brookhaven Physicists Receive DOE Early Career Research Program Funding
Monday, May 12, 2014
Recognition for explorations that peer into the heart of nuclear matter, the inner workings of superconductors, and the elusive mixing of different types of neutrinos.
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Scientists Find Solution to Two Long-Standing Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Detailed studies of a material as it transforms from an insulator through the "pseudogap" into a full-blown superconductor links two "personality" changes of electrons at a critical point.
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World's Most Powerful Accelerator Comes to Titan with a High-Tech Scheduler
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Researchers with the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS experiment are adapting an advanced scheduling and analysis tool developed by physicists at Brookhaven Lab and the University of Texas at Arlington for use on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s flagship Titan supercomputer system.
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Harnessing Magnetic Vortices for Making Nanoscale Antennas
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are seeking ways to synchronize the magnetic spins in nanoscale devices to build tiny yet more powerful signal-generating or receiving antennas and other electronic applications.
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Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The recent insight and discovery of a new class of quantum transition opens the way for a whole new subfield of materials physics and quantum technologies.
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Computer-Assisted Accelerator Design
Monday, April 21, 2014
Accelerator physicist Stephen Brooks uses his own custom software tool to test proposed accelerator designs for eRHIC.
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Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-driven Superconductivity
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
X-rays reveal how rapidly vanishing 'charge stripes' may be behind laser-induced high-temperature superconductivity.
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Accelerator Applications for Cancer Therapy Highlighted in Nature Article
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Technology feature in April 3 Nature highlights advances in cancer therapy using protons and other charged particles.
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Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Make the Most Precise Measurement Yet of the Expanding Universe
Monday, April 7, 2014
Brookhaven collaborators on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey helped measure the expansion rate of the Universe when it was only one-quarter of its present age, the best measurement yet of the expansion rate at any epoch in the last 13 billion years.
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Tracking the Transition of Early-Universe Quark Soup to Matter-as-we-know-it
Friday, April 4, 2014
New evidence from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider reveals different kinds of phase changes at different collision energies.
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L.I. High School Students at Brookhaven Analyze, Present ATLAS Data for International Masterclass in Particle Physics
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Fifty-five Long Island high school students got a chance to experience what it’s like to be part of a large international physics collaboration by participating in a particle physics “International Masterclass” with physicists involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Generations of Supercomputers Pin Down Primordial Plasma
Monday, March 31, 2014
As one groundbreaking IBM system retires, a new Blue Gene supercomputer comes online at Brookhaven Lab to help precisely model subatomic interactions.
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Physicist Mary Bishai Named Woman of the Year in Science by Town of Brookhaven
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Physicist Mary Bishai is honored for her leading role in neutrino physics.
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493rd Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 3/19: 'The Smallest Drops of the Hottest Matter? New Investigations at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider'
Friday, March 14, 2014
Like pool sharks at the billiards hall, physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider need to know a thing or two about collision geometry. On Wednesday, March 19, join Anne Sickles for the 493rd Brookhaven Lecture, titled “The Smallest Drops of the Hottest Matter? New Investigations at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.”
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Brookhaven Lab's Emil Bozin Receives 2014 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The NSSA honors physicist Emil Bozin's discovery of broken symmetries in exotic and promising electronic materials.
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Particle Beam Cancer Therapy: The Promise and Challenges
Monday, March 3, 2014
Advances in accelerators built for fundamental physics research have inspired improved cancer treatment facilities. But will one of the most promising—a carbon ion treatment facility—be built in the U.S.?
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MEDIA Advisory: PubSci: A New Science Conversation Series from Brookhaven National Lab
Friday, February 28, 2014
Brookhaven scientists to discuss Big Bang physics at first PubSci event on March 11.
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Stony Brook University and Brookhaven Lab Host Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Nearly 100 Physics majors visited Stony Brook University and Brookhaven Lab to talk to experts and get insight into careers in physics.
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Mega-Bucks from Russia Seed Development of "Big Data" Tools
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Brookhaven physicist awarded Russian "mega-grant" to develop software and data management tools for science.
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Robert Tribble Named Brookhaven Lab's Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Robert Tribble, a widely respected physicist who has played a key role in charting the future direction of nuclear science in the U.S., has been named Deputy Director for Science & Technology at Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective February 24, 2014.
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Superconductivity in Orbit: Scientists Find New Path to Loss-Free Electricity
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Brookhaven Lab researchers used electron diffraction to capture the distribution of multiple orbital electrons and help explain the emergence of superconductivity in iron-based materials.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Targeting Tumors: Ion Beam Accelerators Take Aim at Cancer
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
symposium and press briefing to explore the physics, biology, and clinical use of advanced particle therapy cancer treatments derived from accelerators built for physics research, as well as the related economic and ethical issues.
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Big Chill Sets in as RHIC Physics Heats Up
Monday, February 3, 2014
Run 14 at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider promises highest collision rates ever for exploration of detailed properties of early-universe matter.
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491st Brookhaven Lecture, Thursday 2/6
Friday, January 17, 2014
Join Juergen Thieme of Brookhaven Lab’s Photon Sciences Directorate for the 491st Brookhaven Lecture, titled “A Fast, Versatile Nanoprobe for Complex Materials: The Sub-micron Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy Beamline at NSLS-II,” on Thursday, Feb. 6, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
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Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
2013 was a banner year for science at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory—from our contributions to Nobel Prize-winning research to new insights into catalysts, superconductors, and other materials key to advancing energy-efficient technologies.
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BOSS measures the universe to 1-percent accuracy
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey makes the most precise calibration yet of the universe's 'standard ruler.'
2013
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Physicists Look Toward the High-Energy Horizon
Monday, December 23, 2013
A panel met at Brookhaven National Laboratory to chart the course for US investment in particle physics experiments.
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Opposing Phenomena Possible Key to High-Efficiency Electricity Delivery
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Princeton University-led researchers report that the coexistence of two opposing phenomena might be the secret to understanding one class of high-temperature superconductors. Researchers from Brookhaven worked with the Princeton team to grow and measure properties of the high-quality single crystals that were essential for this project.
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Tiny Drops of Hot Quark Soup—How Small Can They Be?
Friday, December 6, 2013
New analyses indicate that collisions of small particles with large gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider may be serving up miniscule servings of hot quark-gluon plasma.
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Séamus Davis Awarded Honorary Degree by National University of Ireland
Monday, December 2, 2013
The Chancellor of the National University of Ireland (NUI) today conferred an honorary Doctor of Science degree to J.C. Séamus Davis, a Senior Physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Lokesh Kumar
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Search for “critical point” in early universe matter continues…from India.
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Nano-Cone Textures Generate Extremely "Robust" Water-Repellent Surfaces
Monday, October 21, 2013
Scientists create surfaces with differently shaped nanoscale textures that may yield improved materials for applications in transportation, energy, and diagnostics.
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A Grand Unified Theory of Exotic Superconductivity?
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Scientists introduce a general theoretical approach that describes all known forms of high-temperature superconductivity and their "intertwined" phases.
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US Scientists Celebrate Nobel Prize for Higgs Discovery
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass. U.S. scientists played a significant role in advancing the theory and in discovering the particle that proves the existence of the Higgs field, the Higgs boson.
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New Kind of 'X-Ray/CT Vision' Reveals Objects' Internal Nanoscale Structure, Chemistry
Monday, September 30, 2013
Researchers have developed a new kind of “x-ray vision”—a way to peer inside real-world devices such as batteries and catalysts to map the internal nanostructures and properties of the various components, and even monitor how properties evolve as the devices operate.
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Backup Magnets Ready to Ship to LHC
Monday, September 30, 2013
Physicists and engineers in Brookhaven National Laboratory's Superconducting Magnet Division are in the final stages of assembling "replacement" magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Brookhaven built twenty magnets already installed at the LHC. The replacements are intended to be on hand for as quick a switch as possible if they are needed.
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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment
Thursday, September 26, 2013
A group of theoretical physicists has solved half of a 50-year homework assignment—a calculation of one type of subatomic particle decay aimed at helping to answer the question of why the early universe ended up with an excess of matter.
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Supercomputing the Transition from Ordinary to Extraordinary Forms of Matter
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Calculations plus experimental data help map nuclear phase diagram, offering insight into transition that mimics formation of visible matter in the universe today.
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New Evidence to Aid Search for Charge 'Stripes' in Superconductors
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Brookhaven Lab scientists used an indirect method to detect fluctuating "stripes" of charge density—a key signature to look for as they seek ways to better understand and engineer superconductors for future energy-saving applications.
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Why Particle Physics Matters
Friday, August 30, 2013
A Brookhaven physicist is a finalist in the Symmetry Magazine contest to best explain why particle physicists spend their lives seeking answers to the fundamental questions about our universe.
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Nobel Laureate Astrophysicist Adam Riess to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on Sept. 23 & 24
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Nobel laureate and distinguished astrophysicist Adam Riess will present two George B. Pegram Lectures at Brookhaven Lab on Monday, Sept. 23, at 4 p.m. and Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 11 a.m.
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New Results from Daya Bay: Tracking the Disappearance of Ghostlike Neutrinos
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Daya Bay neutrino experiment releases high-precision measurement of subatomic shape shifting and new result on differences among neutrino masses.
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Stunning Science: The Unexpected Eye Candy of Experimentation
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
From atomic-scale patterns to animations of primordial plasma, Brookhaven Lab scientists use striking imagery to push research forward.
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The Big Move: A Last Look at the Muon g-2 Ring's Departure from Brookhaven
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Brookhaven employees and expert engineers guided the massive electromagnet across Long Island on the first leg of its journey to Illinois.
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Hot Topics for Hot Nuclear Physics
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Scientists from as far as Africa, Asia, and Europe trekked to Brookhaven Lab for four days of workshops and sessions during the 2013 RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting.
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Interface Superconductivity Withstands Variations in Atomic Configuration
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Lab scientists discover that critical temperature remains constant across interface superconductors regardless of electron doping levels, challenging leading theories.
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Scientists Discover Hidden Magnetic Waves in High-Temperature Superconductors
Sunday, August 4, 2013
X-ray technique reveals surprising quantum excitations that persist through custom-made materials with or without the presence of superconductivity.
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Calibrators from Deep Space Tune High-Tech Earthbound Physics Experiments
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Researchers use high-energy extragalactic particles to align and calibrate state-of-the-art detectors at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Fermilab
Monday, July 29, 2013
The 50-foot-wide electromagnet for the Muon g-2 experiment has completed its five-week journey from New York to Illinois.
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Imaging Electron Pairing in a Simple Magnetic Superconductor
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Using a technique to measure the energy required for electrons to pair up and how that energy varies with direction, scientists have identified the factors needed for magnetically mediated superconductivity—as well as those that aren't.
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Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Department of Energy national laboratories collaborate to build the new magnets CERN needs to increase LHC luminosity by an order of magnitude and push physics into new territory.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist/Stony Brook University Professor Awarded Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Dmitri "Dima" Kharzeev has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award, a prestigious international award issued by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, for scientific excellence in his field.
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Massive Particle Storage Ring Begins 3,200-Mile Trek
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The 50-foot-wide electromagnet will begin its voyage over land and sea to its new home at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, where it will become the centerpiece of a new groundbreaking experiment.
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National Lab Neutrino Hunters Win DOE Project Management Award
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In recognition of the early and ongoing success of the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Project, the U.S. leaders in the international project received one of the U.S. Department of Energy's top 2012 Project Management Awards—the Secretary's Achievement Award.
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Young Scientist Prize for Nuclear Physics
Monday, June 17, 2013
Bjoern Schenke, a Goldhaber Fellow in the nuclear theory group at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded a Young Scientist Prize in nuclear physics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).
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RHIC's Perfect Liquid a Study in Perfection
Monday, June 17, 2013
When heavy ions collide at high energies at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the components of the nuclei melt to form a hot soup of their constituent particles. A new model that describes the patterns of particles flowing out from this "quark-gluon plasma" suggests that the resistance to flow is close to the ideal limit used to define a "perfect" fluid.
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Exposure to Air Transforms Gold Alloys Into Catalytic Nanostructures
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Brookhaven Lab scientists create catalytic core-shell nanoparticles made of gold-indium oxide through simple process of room-temperature oxidation.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Alan Hoffman, Mike Miller & Adam Kocoloski
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Trio of RHIC "alums" found internet-based database-systems company.
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Brookhaven Lab's Ivan Božović Honored as Max Planck Lecturer
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Condensed matter physicist gave the prestigious titled lecture at the Max Planck Institute and announced the emergence of a new field called "interface physics."
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Sam Aronson Named Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center
Monday, June 3, 2013
Senior Physicist Sam Aronson has been named Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center (RBRC), a physics research center formed by an international collaboration between Brookhaven Lab and RIKEN—Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce: Johan Gonzalez
Thursday, May 23, 2013
With a Ph.D. earned in part based on research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Johan Gonzalez now applies his data-juggling expertise and knowledge of distributed computer systems to national security needs.
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Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting Returns to Brookhaven Lab
Friday, May 17, 2013
Nearly every seat was taken in the Physics Seminar Room at Brookhaven Lab as Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting returned to Brookhaven from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to speak on May 7.
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Energy Department Announces 61 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Lijuan Ruan, a physicist at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is one of 61 scientists to receive Early Career Research Program funding from DOE.
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Revolutionary Muon Experiment to Begin With 3,200-mile Move of 50-Foot-Wide Particle Storage Ring
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Scientists from 26 institutions around the world are planning a new experiment that could open the doors to new realms of particle physics. But first, they have to bring the core of this experiment, a complex electromagnet that spans 50 feet in diameter, from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.
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Laurence Littenberg Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department
Monday, May 6, 2013
Laurence Littenberg has been named chair of the Physics Department at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective July 1, 2013. He will be succeeding Thomas Ludlam, who is stepping down after having served as chair since September 2007.
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Big Bang? More like Big Ring
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
If a universe explodes into existence, and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? The answer, according to RHIC physicist John Cramer, is a resounding yes. You can listen to the reverberations the Big Bang sent ringing through the cosmos in a new sound file based on the cosmic microwave background that originated at the birth of time.
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Women @ Energy: Christina Swinson
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Christina Swinson is a post doc. in Accelerator Physics at Brookhaven National Lab.
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Winners Announced for Global Physics Photography Contest
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Hundreds of amateur and professional photographers had the rare opportunity to explore and photograph accelerators and detectors at particle physics laboratories around the world, and the winners have just been selected.
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Alternative Futures in High-Energy Particle Physics
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
High-energy physicists from all over the U.S. convened at Brookhaven National Laboratory to discuss future experimental projects and anticipate new scientific discoveries.
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'Research at CERN — From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles'
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture, titled "Research at CERN—From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles," at Brookhaven Lab on Wednesday, May 1, at 5:30 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
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Women @ Energy: Triveni Rao
Friday, April 5, 2013
Triveni Rao is the Associate Division Head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and also holds the position of Senior Physicist. She joined Brookhaven in 1985, upon her graduation from the University of Illinois at Chicago's PhD program in Laser Physics.
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New Evidence Strengthens Case That Scientists Have Discovered a Higgs Boson
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The new particle discovered at experiments at the Large Hadron Collider last summer is looking more like a Higgs boson than ever before, according to results announced today.
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Accelerating Particles Accelerates Science — With Big Benefits for Society
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tackling the most challenging problems in accelerator science attracts the world's best and brightest to Brookhaven Lab. It's only natural that ideas and techniques born here take root in new research facilities around the world — and spark a host of spin-off applications for industry, medicine, national security, and more.
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Data Flowing With RHIC Running
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Run 13 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) began one month ago today, and the first particles collided in the STAR and PHENIX detectors nearly two weeks ago.
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Explaining the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Take a tour of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment, which aims to discover whether neutrinos violate the fundamental matter–antimatter symmetry of physics.
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Laser Mastery Narrows Down Sources of Superconductivity
Sunday, February 24, 2013
MIT and Brookhaven Lab physicists measured fleeting electron waves to uncover the elusive mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Receives Charles Hirsch Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Friday, February 22, 2013
Novel design of accelerator components enables exploration of fundamental physics, materials science, and more.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: The Higgs Boson: Past, Present, and Future
Monday, February 18, 2013
Media availability and symposium at AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
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Dopants Dramatically Alter Electronic Structure of Superconductor
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Study demonstrates that doping dramatically alters the atomic-scale electronic structure of the parent of a high-temperature superconductor, with important consequences for the behavior of the current-carrying electrons. The findings could potentially point to new ways to design superconductors with improved properties.
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Explaining Science with Ten Hundred Words
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Inspired by internet comic artist Randall Munroe, who recently used only the 1,000 most common words in the English language to describe the Saturn V rocket, scientists from every field are now experimenting with this limited word list to explain their own work.
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Help Choose the Next Iconic "Big Science" Image
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Vote for your favorite photo among the stunning submissions from the world's top physics facilities, including Brookhaven Lab.
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On the Mark and Set for RHIC Run 13
Monday, February 11, 2013
When collisions begin for RHIC Run 13, scientists from Brookhaven Lab and around the world will collect data from polarized proton collisions to try to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the basic building blocks of matter—the puzzle of the proton’s “missing” spin.
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Hot New Book for Lovers of Science
Friday, February 8, 2013
Heat: Adventures in the World’s Fiery Places is a compelling new book about all things hot, including Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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Three BNL Staff Members Elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Three BNL scientists have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), a professional organization with more than 47,000 members.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Receives Technological Innovation Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Brookhaven physicist Zheng Li receives the 2012 IEEE Technological Innovation Award for the development of a novel silicon detector.
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YouTube's SciShow Hails Hot Quark-Gluon Plasma as "Superlative Science"
Friday, January 18, 2013
The fact that scientists at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have collided gold ions together to produce a substance with the highest man-made temperature ever recorded caught the attention of video blogger Hank Green, who hosts the very popular online program SciShow on YouTube.
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Two Intel Semifinalists Completed Research at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, January 18, 2013
With help from their mentors, two local high school students were named semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search for research projects they completed at Brookhaven Lab through the Office of Educational Programs.
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Duke Physicist to Lead Brookhaven Lab's Nuclear and Particle Physics Program
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Berndt Mueller to take the helm advancing the frontiers of the Lab’s physics programs.
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Gluon Walls: A New Form of Matter?
Monday, January 7, 2013
A conversation about “color glass condensate” and the structure of visible matter in the universe, with Brookhaven theoretical physicist Raju Venugopalan.
2012
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U.S. Neutrino Experiment Crosses Major Milestone
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment receives Critical Decision 1 approval from the U.S. DOE.
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Growing Cutting-edge X-ray Optics
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Scientists use a custom-designed machine and a reprogrammed Xbox controller to create atomically precise lenses.
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Scientists Chart the Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, November 19, 2012
New study reveals unexpected disappearance of superconducting fluctuations at super-cold temperatures.
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RHIC Physics Feeds Future High-Tech Workforce
Monday, November 19, 2012
The RHIC program constitutes a technical, scientific wellspring that feeds many fields. Maintaining such facilities keeps an ever-more-sophisticated, highly specialized workforce growing.
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481st Brookhaven Lecture, 11/14
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven Lab has been extremely productive during its first 12 years of collisions. In light of projected budget constraints, scientists at Brookhaven are making preparations for RHIC to have a stunning future. Join Vladimir Litvinenko for his presentation "From RHIC to eRHIC: Challenges and Opportunities for Accelerator Science."
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The Great Space Coaster: Astronomers Measure the Deceleration of the Universe before Dark Energy
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Thanks to a new technique for measuring the three-dimensional structure of the distant Universe, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) have made the first measurement of the cosmic expansion rate just three billion years after the Big Bang.
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East Coasters Brave Hurricane Sandy, Keep Neutrino Project On Schedule
Friday, November 9, 2012
Hurricane Sandy hit the night before an important project review, but scientists, engineers, and project personnel didn’t let that stand in their way.
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How do floating water bridges defy gravity?
Monday, November 5, 2012
The term “floating water bridge” may sound nonsensical, but it’s the most logical name for a phenomenon that occurs when two beakers of water set slightly apart are zapped with high-voltage electricity and the water molecules jump across the gap to connect and form a thin thread of water.
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Superconducting Magnet Researchers Develop Exciting New HTS Technology
Friday, October 5, 2012
BNL researchers have developed record-breaking high temperature superconductor magnets that open the path to a muon collider and make possible other important applications.
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Higgs-search Technology to Tackle Astrophysics, Biology
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Particle physics software to flex its data-mining muscle on dark matter, biology, and cosmic history.
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U.S. Collaborators to Make Higgs-hunting Tech Available
Monday, September 10, 2012
The University of Texas at Arlington is teaming with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven and Argonne national laboratories to develop a universal version of PanDA, a workload management system built to process huge volumes of data from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
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In Memoriam: David Alburger
Friday, August 31, 2012
David Alburger, a retired senior physicist who held a guest appointment in the Physics Department, died on June 13, 2012. He was 91.
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High Energy Physics Lessons in Africa
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Five thousand miles from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven Lab and 3,000 from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Europe, students gathered in Ghana to talk physics at the 2012 African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications.
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Magnetic Vortex Reveals Key to Spintronic Speed Limit
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Scientists measured a key effect of electron spin essential to engineering the next generation of high-performing digital devices.
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Stony Brook University Student Wins 2012 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Annual prize to advance women in science, administered by Brookhaven Women in Science, is awarded to SBU’s Marija Kotur.
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White House Congratulates US-ATLAS Collaboration on Discovery of Higgs
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
A letter from the White House congratulates Brookhaven’s Howard Gordon and the ATLAS collaboration on the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.
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Quark Matter’s Connection with the Higgs
Monday, August 13, 2012
You may think you’ve heard everything you need to know about the origin of mass . . . but to get a grasp on what holds visible matter together—everything from stars to planets to people—you have to understand how quarks and gluons interact.
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Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter
Monday, August 13, 2012
Energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals first hints of phase boundary
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Scientists Honored for Groundbreaking Matter/Antimatter Calculation
Friday, August 10, 2012
Taku Izubuchi, Chulwoo Jung, Christoph Lehner, and Amarjit Soni of Brookhaven and the RIKEN-BNL Research Center were recognized at the 30th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory for work in providing evidence of asymmetry in the universe — why there is more matter than antimatter.
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RIKEN – BNL Agreement Renewed
Friday, August 10, 2012
The agreement, originally signed in 1997, between RIKEN, a multidisciplinary lab in Japan, and BNL has been extended for another six years.
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Athena Marneris Studies What Makes Glass Tubes Implode
Monday, August 6, 2012
As an intern at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Athena Marneris helped scientists design a new device for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Latest Findings on Primordial ‘Soup’ and Nature’s Strongest Force
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Physicists recreating conditions of early universe present new data at Quark Matter 2012.
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Hot Nuclear Matter Featured in Science
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Prelude to new RHIC/LHC findings to be presented at Quark Matter 2012.
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Titan Supercomputer Hours Awarded to Collaborative Protein Project
Monday, July 16, 2012
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have been awarded two million processor hours on a state-of-the-art supercomputer to collaborate on a protein structure project.
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The Frontiers of RHIC Physics
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
With a record-breaking run winding down, upgrade plans that could propel research for at least 10 years of groundbreaking discoveries, and uncertain budgets looming ahead, there was much to talk about at the 2012 RHIC/AGS Users’ Meeting.
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Unprecedented Subatomic Details of Exotic Ferroelectric Nanomaterials
Sunday, July 8, 2012
As scientists learn to manipulate little-understood nanoscalematerials, they are laying the foundation for a future of more compact,efficient, and innovative devices.
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Search for Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider reveals new particle
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Physicists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced that they have observed a new particle. Whether the particle has the properties of the predicted Higgs boson remains to be seen.
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Brookhaven Lab Collider Crucial to Future of Nuclear Physics
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
National Research Council report details breakthroughs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its key role in the field over the next decade.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Particle Physics Fireworks for the 4th?
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Scientists present latest results in search for Higgs particle.
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Brookhaven Lab Central to Future of Nuclear Physics
Thursday, June 28, 2012
A new report from the National Research Council celebrates breakthroughs in basic science and looks forward to future advances in the U.S.
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Sambamurti Memorial Lecture, 6/26
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
At 3:30 p.m. today in Berkner Hall, Dan Dwyer of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will discuss neutrinos and neutrino research in a free public lecture held annually to honor BNL physicist Aditya Sambamurti.
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Brewing the World’s Hottest Guinness
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Brookhaven’s ion collider smashes both atoms and a Guinness World Record by achieving the hottest man-made temperature ever.
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$27 Million Award Bolsters Research Computing Grid
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation have committed up to $27 million to Open Science Grid, a nine-member partnership extending the reach of distributed high-throughput computing (DHTC) networks.
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Brookhaven Lab’s Ivan Bozovic Wins Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials
Monday, June 18, 2012
International jury recognizes Bozovic for innovative contributions to the material aspects of superconductivity, an important component for solutions to Nation’s energy challenges.
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The Owl Shift at STAR and PHENIX
Friday, June 15, 2012
Keeping tabs on the activities at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider detectors through the wee hours.
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Taking Hybrids for a Spin to Generate Electricity from Sunlight
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Scientists demonstrate precision control of self assembly and charge transfer in a hybrid material composed of light-absorbing quantum dots and a conjugated polymer — two types of semiconducting materials that have been widely studied for photovoltaic and other optoelectronic applications and biosensors.
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The Glue that Binds Us All
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Nuclear physicists would like to build a new machine: an electron-ion collider designed to shine a very bright "light" on both protons and heavy ions to reveal their inner secrets.
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eRHIC: Colliding Electrons with Ions at RHIC
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
There are compelling reasons to build an electron-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Chat with Scientists on Twitter "The Science of the Very Fast and Very Small"
Monday, June 11, 2012
Join Brookhaven physicist Paul Sorensen from 2-3 p.m. today as he takes questions in a Twitter-based interactive chat joined by scientists from Argonne and Sandia national labs on "The Science of the Very Fast and Very Small," part of the Lab Breakthrough video series. Search the hashtag "#labchat" on Twitter to follow along during the event.
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Groundbreaking for Expansion and Renovation of American Physical Society’s Editorial Office
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Lab Director Sam Aronson attends ceremony marking expansion of APS offices in Ridge.
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Fermilab Experiment Announces World's Best Measurement of Key Property of Neutrinos
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
New results from the MINOS experiment confirm that neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, have the similar masses predicted by theories that explain how the subatomic world works.
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Plotting the Future for Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
Friday, June 1, 2012
More than 500 physicists and computational scientists from around the globe, including many working at the world’s most complex particle accelerators, met in New York City May 21-25 to discuss the development of the computational tools essential to the future of high-energy and nuclear physics at the 19th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), hosted by Brookhaven and New York University.
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Update From RHIC Run 12: One World Record, Three World Firsts
Friday, May 18, 2012
Run 12 at RHIC provides the world’s highest beam energy for polarized protons, uranium-uranium collisions, increasing luminosity for colliding uranium beams, and copper-gold collisions.
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RHIC Explores Matter at the Dawn of Time
Monday, May 14, 2012
Physicist Paul Sorensen, videographer Alex Reben, and writer Karen McNulty Walsh collaborated to produce this video on major discoveries at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as part of the Department of Energy's “Breakthrough” video series.
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Topological Insulator Shows Promise for New Class of Room-Temperature Electronics
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
In the search for new materials with improved electrical conductivity, scientists at Brookhaven Lab have found a candidate that appears to be “protected” from two kinds of current-killing scattering — at least on the surface.
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Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models
Friday, May 4, 2012
Petra Huetenmeyer of Michigan Technological University will give a talk titled “Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models,” at BNL on Thursday, May 17, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
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New Technique Uses Electrons to Map Nanoparticle Atomic Structures
Friday, May 4, 2012
A Brookhaven/Columbia Engineering School team of scientists shwos how a form of nanocrystallography can be carried out using a transmission electron microscope ‹ an instrument found in many chemistry and materials science laboratories.
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Atomic-scale Visualization of Electron Pairing in Iron Superconductors
Thursday, May 3, 2012
By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists provide direct evidence supporting theories in which magnetism holds the key to this material’s ability to carry current with no resistance.
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477th Brookhaven Lecture Today, 4/25: Supercomputers and Mathematical Models for Multiphysics Simulations in Energy and Accelerator Sciences
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
How can a scientist search for clues and answers when experiments become extremely difficult to measure, too expensive or dangerous to operate, or too far away to see? Find out at 4 p.m. today, April 25, in Berkner Hall during the 477th Brookhaven.
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Scientists Discover Bilayer Structure in Efficient Solar Material
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Detailed studies of one of the best-performing organic photovoltaic materials reveal an unusual bilayer lamellar structure that may help explain the material’s superior performance at converting sunlight to electricity and guide the synthesis of new materials with even better properties.
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Quirky Photos
Monday, April 23, 2012
Photographer Stanley Greenberg captures "Quirky Photos" at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Anthony Baltz Named Senior Scientist Emeritus, Honored at ‘Baltzfest’
Friday, April 20, 2012
Anthony Baltz is named Senior Scientist Emeritus and honored by colleagues at “Baltzfest,” a symposium of talks and reminiscences of his 40 years at BNL.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Triveni Rao to be Honored at Asian American Celebration
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Triveni Rao, a senior physicist at BNL, will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional at a ceremony on May 12, 2012 at the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration at Stony Brook University’s Charles B. Wang Center.
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Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator: A Unique Accelerator that Reclaims Energy
Monday, April 16, 2012
By the end of 2013, the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Collider-Accelerator Department will have completed an Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator (ERL), a unique type of accelerator that reclaims the energy it uses to accelerate electrons.
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Coherent Electron Cooling: Combining Methods to Cool Particle Beams and Increase Collision Rates at RHIC
Friday, April 13, 2012
A brand new technique called coherent electron cooling could increase collision rates at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider by an impressive factor of ten. That increase would help researchers who are hunting for answers to some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
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Supercomputing the Difference between Matter and Antimatter
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Using breakthrough techniques on some of the world’s fastest supercomputers, an international collaboration has reported a landmark calculation of a subatomic particle decay important to understanding matter/antimatter asymmetry. The research helps nail down the exact process of kaon decay, and is also inspiring the development of a new generation of supercomputers.
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Details of Hot Quark Soup, New Liquid Neutrino Detector, and Ultra-Bright Light Source
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Brookhaven Lab highlights at the April 2012 meeting of the American Physical Society include answers to intriguing questions including: What was the universe like microseconds after the Big Bang? Can you catch an elusive neutrino in a watery liquid? What features will the world’s newest ultra-bright light source reveal?
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Lab Forms Search Committee for New NPP ALD
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Several months ago, Brookhaven’s Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Nuclear & Particle Physics (NPP) Steve Vigdor announced that he will retire from his position at the end of this calendar year. To find the next ALD for NPP, we have assembled a search committee of leading scientists from the Lab and other world-class institutions.
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Collider-Accelerator Department’s Erdong Wang Wins 2012 IEEE/NPSS PAST Doctoral Student Award
Monday, March 26, 2012
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Nuclear and Plasma Science Society recognizes Brookhaven Physicist Erdong Wang for his contributions to the physics of high quantum-efficiency photocathodes.
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Triveni Rao wins Brookhaven Town’s 2012 Women’s Recognition Award
Monday, March 12, 2012
BNL senior physicist Triveni Rao will be honored for her scientific accomplishments at Brookhaven Town’s 26th Annual Women’s Recognition Night.
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Brookhaven Lab's Sam Aronson Inducted into the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame
Friday, March 9, 2012
Sam Aronson, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been inducted into the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame.
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Announcing the First Results from Daya Bay: Discovery of a New Kind of Neutrino Transformation
Thursday, March 8, 2012
An international team pinpoints the last, most elusive measurement needed to help solve the mystery of the disappearing neutrino.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Genda Gu Named American Physical Society Fellow
Friday, March 2, 2012
Condensed Matter physicist honored for pioneering single crystal growth for use in high-temperature superconductors.
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Carl Dover Memorial Lecture, 3/1
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Professor Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich of Heidelberg University, Germany, will give the Carl Dover Memorial Lecture, titled “Exploring Strange Matters,” on Thursday, March 1.
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Katherine Prestridge to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on “Clouds, Waves, and Supernovas,” March 15
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Katherine Prestridge, leader of the Extreme Fluids team at Los Alamos National Laboratory will give a talk entitled, “Clouds, Waves and Supernovas: Understanding fluid mixing in extreme conditions,” at BNL on Thursday, March 15, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
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Brookhaven Physicists Team Up with Medical Industry to Build Advanced Cancer Therapy Accelerator
Monday, February 27, 2012
BNL scientists use particle accelerator expertise to push the frontiers of cancer treatment.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory Completes Major Science Lab Renovation
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Brookhaven National Laboratory has concluded the first phase of an ongoing effort to modernize existing research facilities, including materials science and fuel testing laboratories.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Guangyong Xu Receives 2012 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has named Guangyong Xu, a tenured physicist at BNL, the recipient of their 2012 Science Prize.
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CASE Accelerates Accelerator Education
Monday, February 13, 2012
The Center for Accelerator Science and Education (CASE) is a joint Stony Brook-Brookhaven graduate and post-graduate program focused on the development of the next crop of accelerator scientists and engineers.
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Ten BNL Scientists Granted Tenure: Meet James Alessi and Hooman Davoudiasl
Thursday, January 26, 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 Collider-Accelerator Department’s James Alessi and the Physics Department’s Hooman Davoudiasl.
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BNL Hosts Two Semifinalists in 2012 Intel Science Contest
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Two high school seniors named semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search completed their projects with help from Brookhaven Lab’s Bill Morse and Alistair Rogers.
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RHIC Enters the Race for Run 12
Monday, January 9, 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.
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Groundbreaking Results Promise Smaller, Cheaper Therapy Machines that Could Revolutionise Cancer Treatment and More
Monday, January 9, 2012
The pioneering accelerator is a prototype for a brand new type of particle accelerator that will massively impact fundamental science by changing the way such accelerators across the world are designed and built in the future.
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Brookhaven Scientists Help Develop Model for Future Accelerators
Monday, January 9, 2012
Working with an international team, three physicists from Brookhaven Lab have helped to demonstrate the feasibility of a new kind of particle accelerator that may be used in future physics research, medical applications, and power-generating reactors.
2011
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The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, and Colliding Hadrons: Huh?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
If you still don’t quite understand what is being said of elementary particles, fundamental interactions, the Standard Model, and of course, the elusive Higgs boson, don’t fret: Brookhaven Physicist Srini Rajagopalan can catch you up.
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Brookhaven Lab and the Search for the Higgs
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
BNL physicist Kostas Nikolopoulos describes the Lab’s role in the search for the Higgs boson — from detector design to computation and analysis.
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Possible Hints of the Higgs Remain in Latest Analyses
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson — the famous missing piece of the particle physics puzzle — could dwell.
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Colossal Conducting Variation at the Nanoscale
Monday, December 12, 2011
Colossal magnetoresistance phenomenon occurs when nanoclusters form at specific temperatures; may be useful for industrial applications that exploit electrical and magnetic properties, such as solid-state electronics.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicists Graham Smith and Craig Woody Named IEEE Fellows
Friday, December 9, 2011
Graham Smith and Craig Woody, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, have been named IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2012.
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Physicist Yasuyuki Akiba Receives the 2011 Nishina Memorial Prize
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Yasuyuki Akiba, experimental group leader of the RIKEN BNL Research Center at the 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.
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Physicist Yasuyuki Akiba Receives the 2011 Nishina Memorial Prize
Friday, December 2, 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.
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Brookhaven Lab's Ruth Van de Water Receives 2011 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Ruth Van de Water, an assistant physicist at BNL, has been named a finalist in the postdoctoral category of the New York Academy of Sciences’ Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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In Memoriam: Norman Ramsey
Friday, November 18, 2011
Nobel Prize winner Norman Ramsey, a founder of BNL and the first Chair of the Physics Department, died at the age of 96 on Friday, November 4.
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Daya Bay Today: BNL and Collaborators Enable Next Step in Neutrino Research
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
BNL takes another step in its long history of neutrino research by making significant contributions to the Daya Bay Neutrino Project, which started taking data earlier this year.
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Nanoconfinement of Organic Solar Cell Material Enhances Conductivity
Monday, October 24, 2011
Nanometer-scale restructuring of a polymer used in organic solar cells could lead to improved devices.
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Impurity Atoms Introduce Waves of Disorder in Exotic Electronic Material
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sophisticated electron-imaging technique reveals widespread “destruction,” offering clues to how material works as a superconductor. Findings may have implications for understanding superconductivity in other materials.
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Historic Site Hurrah at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Celebrations were under way as the American Physical Society recognized BNL as a historic site for advancements in physics.
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APS Historic Site 2011 Walking Tour
Monday, October 3, 2011
Celebrate the American Physical Society’s recognition of Brookhaven Lab as a historic site by strolling through the Lab’s history of physics advances and breakthroughs. Today’s walking tour will leave from the parking lot outside Berkner Hall at 11:30 a.m. Listen to the recorded audio tour by streaming it to a smart phone or downloading it to an iPod, and get a free T-shirt, too (as supplies last).
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Physics Phoenix: Plotting the Journey of Muon g – 2
Friday, September 30, 2011
The muon g - 2 storage ring is all set for a cross-country trip to Fermilab, where it will be restored atop existing high-intensity accelerator facilities.
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Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed to Give a Talk at Brookhaven Lab on 'Space Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron Collider, October 19
Monday, September 26, 2011
Nima Arkani-Hamed, a professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture titled "Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron Collider," on Wednesday, October 19, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall at BNL.
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Scientists Detect Unusual ‘Quasiparticles’ in Tri-Layer Graphene
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Findings reveal new possibilities for manipulating charge and spin in electronic devices.
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American Physical Society Honors Brookhaven National Laboratory
Friday, September 23, 2011
The American Physical Society (APS) — a 48,000-member organization representing physicists in the United States and around the world and publisher of numerous scientific journals — has named BNL an APS Historic Site.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, Historic Site
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The American Physical Society will recognize Brookhaven Lab as a historic site in the advancement of the field of physics. On Friday, September 23, the Lab community is invited to celebrate this recognition with a walk — complete with a recorded audio tour that can be streamed to a web-enabled smart phone — and a ceremony with talks. Live webcast of the ceremony available on WBNL.
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Nanoimprinting Controls Orientation of Organic Solar Polymers
Monday, September 12, 2011
Restructuring organic polymers could lead to more efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity.
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Surprise Difference in Neutrino and Antineutrino Mass Lessening with New Measurements from a Fermilab Experiment
Friday, August 26, 2011
A new result at the MINOS experiment brings neutrino and antineutrino masses more closely in sync.
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Promoting Diversity ― on the Atomic Level
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Brookhaven’s Electron Beam Ion Source creates beams of charged particles from a wide variety of elements, enhancing the capabilities of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory.
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LHC Experiments Eliminate More Higgs Hiding Spots
Monday, August 22, 2011
Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, announced today that they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs boson could be hiding.
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The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Begins Taking Data
Monday, August 15, 2011
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has begun its quest to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the elusive elementary particles known as neutrinos.
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Three’s a Charm!
Monday, August 8, 2011
Physicist Lisa Whitehead collaborates on three experiments.
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In Memoriam: Michael Marx
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Michael Marx, long-time Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University (SBU) physicist and SBU’s Associate Vice President for Brookhaven National Laboratory Affairs, died at his home on August 2.
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Brookhaven Lab Awards $33 Million Contract for Laboratory and Office Renovations
Monday, August 1, 2011
BNL has chosen U.W. Marx Construction Company of Troy, New York, to renovate approximately 89,000 square feet of laboratories, offices, and support space within two large buildings on the 5,300-acre campus: the chemistry building and the physics building.
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Quest for understanding perfect liquid continues
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Special issue of New Journal of Physics focuses on links between heavy ions, string theory, and cold atoms.
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Link Between Competing Phases in Cuprates Leads to New Theory
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Discovery in parent of one high-temperature superconductor may lead to predictive control.
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BNL Honors Six Winners of the 2011 Science & Technology Award
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The six winners of BNL’s 2011 Science and Technology Award are Sally Dawson, Physics Department; David Diamond, Nuclear Science & Technology Department; Oleg Gang, Center for Functional Nanomaterials; Animesh Jain, Superconducting Magnet Division; Vladimir Litvinenko, Collider Accelerator Department; and José Rodriguez, Chemistry Department.
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Fermilab Experiment Weighs in on Neutrino Mystery
Friday, June 24, 2011
Scientists from Fermilab’s MINOS experiment announced the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos.
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LHC Achieves 2011 Data Milestone
Friday, June 17, 2011
The amount of data accumulated by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC has reached 1 inverse femtobarn, about 70 million million collisions.
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Indications of a New Type of Neutrino Oscillation at the T2K Experiment
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Brookhaven researchers built key magnets for an experiment in Japan that has found a new type of neutrino oscillation.
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Ultrathin Copper-Oxide Layers Behave Like Quantum Spin Liquid
Friday, June 10, 2011
Surprising discovery may offer clues to emergence of high-temperature superconductivity.
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CERN Experiment Traps Antimatter Atoms for 1,000 Seconds
Monday, June 6, 2011
With help from a magnet manufactured at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of scientists at CERN has trapped antimatter atoms for longer than 16 minutes.
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Brookhaven Lab Scientist Receives DOE Early Career Research Program Award
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Brookhaven National Laboratory Assistant Physicist Anže Slosar will receive a $2.5 million five-year research grant under the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program.
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Media Advisory: RHIC and LHC Findings Take Center Stage at Quark Matter 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Physicists from Brookhaven National Laboratory conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at BNL and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN gather with experimental and theoretical physicists around the world in Annecy, France, May 23-28, to present and discuss their latest findings.
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LHC Experiments Present New Results at Quark Matter 2011 Conference
Monday, May 23, 2011
The Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS experiment — of which BNL is a collaborator — presented today new heavy ion results complementary to science at RHIC.
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Brookhaven Lab Wins PR Awards for Physics Outreach Campaign
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Brookhaven National Laboratory has won two Bulldog Awards for Excellence in Media and Public Relations for a publicity initiative that brought worldwide media attention to 2010 research results from the Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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In Memoriam: Maurice Goldhaber, Former Brookhaven National Laboratory Director
Friday, May 13, 2011
Maurice Goldhaber, a prominent physicist and a former director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, died on May 11 after a short illness.
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Yannis Semertzidis Mentors Award-Winning Students
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Three Long Island high school students credit Brookhaven Lab's Yannis Semertzidis for their academic success in science.
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These Little Lights of Mine
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) have created the largest ever three-dimensional map of the distant universe by using the light of the brightest objects in the cosmos to illuminate ghostly clouds of intergalactic hydrogen.
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RHIC Physicists Nab New Record for Heaviest Antimatter
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Newly discovered antihelium-4 could be heaviest stable antinucleus detectable for decades to come.
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Giant Proximity Effect Enhances High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sandwiched superconductors engineered to function at higher temperatures could be used in new ultra-fast superconducting electronics.
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Antimatter-catching, BNL-built Magnet Featured in CERN Courier
Thursday, April 7, 2011
A Brookhaven-built magnet that recently helped researchers trap and store antimatter atoms for the first time is featured on the cover of the CERN Courier.
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Expanding the Degrees of Surface Freezing
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Researchers have discovered that the molecules in thin films remain frozen at a temperature where the bulk material is molten. Thin molecular films have a range of applications extending from organic solar cells to biosensors.
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Brookhaven Lab to Host Particle Accelerator Conference in NYC
Monday, March 28, 2011
More than 850 scientists, engineers, students, and industry representatives will convene in New York City at the end of March for the 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC’11).
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Tracking the Moves of Electrons
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Improved x-ray techniques give scientists inside look at electron dynamics in superconductors, other advanced materials.
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Sharpening Images of High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
New exploration techniques could pave the way to room-temperature superconductivity, everyday applications
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Nanoscale Assembly Using DNA ‘Glue’
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Leveraging specificity of life’s genetic-code molecule for rational bottom-up design
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The Hottest Liquid on the Planet
Monday, March 21, 2011
Probing the properties of a superhot, ‘perfect’ liquid, quark-gluon plasma
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Finding the Right Superconducting ‘Flavor’
Monday, March 21, 2011
Combining theory and experiments, scientists are saving time and money by modeling the properties of select superconductors prior to fabrication.
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Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Prospects and Challenges
Sunday, March 20, 2011
A call to action to understand the ‘quantum entanglement’ behind high-temperature superconductivity
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RHIC Physicist Christine Aidala Featured on DOE Blog
Monday, March 7, 2011
A clarinetist, bassoonist, and a nuclear physicist at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Christine Aidala discusses her love of music and proton spin in a Q&A posted last week on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Blog.
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RHIC “White Papers” Top 1,000-Citation Mark
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Two of the first papers to describe the “perfect” liquid created at RHIC have each been cited more than 1,000 times in scientific literature.
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Unique New Probe of Proton Spin Structure at RHIC
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Direct measurements allow detailed look at how quarks of different flavors contribute to spin.
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Unique New Probe of Proton Spin Structure at RHIC
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Direct measurements allow detailed look at how quarks of different flavors contribute to spin.
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Media Advisory: The Heaviest Known Antimatter
Monday, February 14, 2011
When an international team of scientists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider announced the discovery of the most massive antinucleus to date — and the first containing an anti-strange quark — it marked the first entry below the plane of the classic Periodic Table of Elements.
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Fleeting Fluctuations in Superconductivity Disappear Close to Transition Temperature
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Measurements indicate loss of coherence among electron pairs; may help explain mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity
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Glass Implosion Tests Help Design Stronger Neutrino Detectors
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Brookhaven researchers are using a refurbished Navy facility to test the limits of photomultiplier tubes for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment.
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DOE Blog Features BNL Physicist Antonio Checco
Monday, February 7, 2011
BNL physicist Antonio Checco describes his nanoscale explorations, as well as his love for cappuccino, in a new series on DOE’s Energy Blog.
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Brookhaven Lab Wins Inaugural Gordon Battelle Prizes for Scientific Discovery and Technology Impact
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
BNL has won three of 10 prizes given for the first time by Battelle for scientific advances and technology innovations.
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Battelle CEO Announces Winners of Inaugural Gordon Battelle Prize
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Battelle, the world's largest non-profit independent research and development organization, today announced 10 winners of the inaugural Gordon Battelle Prizes for scientific discovery and technology impact.
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Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011
From the creation of 4-trillion-degree matter that existed just microseconds after the Big Bang to new nanocatalysts that can make fuel-cell cars more economical, BNL made a series of stunning discoveries in 2010.
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Brookhaven Joins Quantum Diaries
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Quantum Diaries, a website that offers a personal look at the lives of particle physicists from around the world, now includes views from a set of physics laboratories, including Brookhaven. Guillaume Robert-Demolaize and Anže Slosar (above) will be among the contributors from BNL.
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Three Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded three scientists from BNL the distinction of Fellow.
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Astronomers Release the Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) collaboration, which includes scientists from Brookhaven Lab, has released the largest-ever digital color image of the sky.
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Three Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named American Physical Society Fellows
Monday, January 10, 2011
Three scientists at BNL have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society, the world’s second largest organization of physicists.
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Science Café Talks on Large Hadron Collider, Jan. 30
Monday, January 10, 2011
During a free book talk and discussion, three physicists associated with BNL will take their audience, figuratively, to CERN, the European physics lab in Switzerland.
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Science Café Talks on Large Hadron Collider, Jan. 30
Monday, January 10, 2011
During a free book talk and discussion, three physicists associated with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory will take their audience, figuratively, to CERN, the European physics lab in Switzerland.
2010
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Brookhaven-Built Magnet Will Catch Subatomic Debris at FRIB
Monday, December 20, 2010
A specialized magnet being built in Brookhaven’s Superconducting Magnet Division will play a key role in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
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Brookhaven Lab Physicist Laurence Littenberg Wins the 2011 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Recognized for a “needle-in-a-haystack” discovery, Laurence Littenberg, a senior physicist and associate chair for high-energy physics in the Physics Department of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been chosen to receive the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2011 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.
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Brookhaven Lab Ranked No. 1 for Hadron Collider Research
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
BNL has been named the number-one institution in the world for hadron collider research — research that explores the very earliest moments of the universe, the most fundamental particles of matter, and the forces through which they interact.
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Brookhaven Lab Ranked No. 1 for Hadron Collider Research
Friday, December 10, 2010
BNL has been named the number-one institution in the world for hadron collider research — research that explores the very earliest moments of the universe, the most fundamental particles of matter, and the forces through which they interact.
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Brookhaven Scientist Peter Johnson Shares American Physical Society Oliver E. Buckley Prize
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist Peter Johnson is one of three recipients of the 2011 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.
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LHC Experiments Bring New Insight into Primordial Universe
Monday, November 29, 2010
After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the very first instants of the Universe’s life.
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Antimatter Atoms Successfully Stored for the First Time
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Brookhaven’s Superconducting Magnet Division built the main component of the ALPHA collaboration’s magnetic field trap, which is the first to store antimatter atoms.
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CERN Completes Transition to Lead-ion Running at the LHC
Monday, November 8, 2010
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has collided its first beams of lead, signaling the start of the heavy ion physics program.
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LHC Data Abundance Puts Brookhaven Computing to the Test
Friday, November 5, 2010
In the eight months since starting its first physics run, the ATLAS experiment has delivered surprises and successes for the Lab’s distributed computing center.
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Large Hadron Collider Pauses Protons; Looks Ahead to Lead
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider’s first record-setting run of high-energy proton collisions ended today, and scientists are now readying the accelerator to meet its next challenge: the world’s highest-energy collisions of lead ions.
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Large Hadron Collider Pauses Protons; Looks Ahead to Lead
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider’s first record-setting run of high-energy proton collisions ended today, and scientists are now readying the accelerator to meet its next challenge: the world’s highest-energy collisions of lead ions.
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George Redlinger and the Search for SUSY
Monday, November 1, 2010
BNL physicist George Redlinger describes the “Holy Grail of modern physics”
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Illuminating Cosmology’s Dark Questions with Erin Sheldon
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Cosmologist Erin Sheldon was the first hire for the BNL group that will ultimately interpret data from the proposed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
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Alda, Greene Help Celebrate Opening of SBU’s Center for Communicating Science
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The official opening of Stony Brook University’s Center for Communicating Science drew nearly 1,000 people to hear physicist Brian Greene and actor Alan Alda.
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LHC experiment observes a potentially new and interesting effect
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Scientists in the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider have observed unique correlations observed between particles produced in proton-proton collisions that are similar to an effect seen at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Logbook: Strong Focusing
Monday, September 13, 2010
The current edition of symmetry magazine gives a brief history lesson in strong focusing — a concept first developed at Brookhaven and now used in accelerators around the world.
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John Axe Named 2010 NSSA Fellow
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
BNL retiree John Axe has been named a Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America.
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First African School of Physics brings cutting-edge physics and technology to sub-Saharan Africa
Thursday, July 29, 2010
This August, students and scientists from African countries will get the rare opportunity to learn about innovative physics experiments, accelerators and technology on their own continent.
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Brookhaven Lab's Robert Palmer Awarded the 2010 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Robert Palmer, head of Brookhaven Lab’s Advanced Accelerator Group, received the Advanced Accelerator Prize.
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Key Advance in Understanding ‘Pseudogap’ Phase in High-Tc Superconductors
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Scientists have discovered a "broken symmetry" in copper-oxide superconductors, which may lead to new approaches to overcoming a key hurdle to room-temperature superconductivity.
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RHIC/AGS Users’ Meeting Honors History, Welcomes Future
Thursday, June 24, 2010
About 180 members of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron user community gathered to hear about recent results, facility updates, and funding, and celebrate a trio of impressive anniversaries.
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Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Thin films patterned with superconducting nanowires and loops with variable resistance could be useful for new electronic devices.
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The Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer (BLIP) and Neutrinos bound for the Deep Underground Science Laboratory in South Dakota -- What’s the Connection?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Tests of potential target materials at Brookhaven isotope producer will aid major neutrino experiment.
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First Images of Heavy Electrons in Action
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Scientists nab first images of “heavy” electrons, revealing “hidden” characteristics and demonstrating new method for investigating long-standing physics problems
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Fermilab Scientists Find Evidence for Significant Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation of matter-antimatter symmetry in the behavior of particles containing bottom quarks beyond what is expected in the current theory, the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Media Advisory: Smashing Protons to Smithereens
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Marc-André Pleier, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, will discuss the extraordinary research taking place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Physicist Valery A. Rubakov to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on Extra Dimensions in Space, April 27
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Valery A. Rubakov, chief scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Research at the Russian Academy of Sciences, will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture – “Extra Dimensions of Space: Are They Going to be Found Soon?”– at Brookhaven Lab on Tuesday, April 27, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.
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Physics Begins at the Large Hadron Collider
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider has launched a new era for particle physics. Today at 1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the first particles collided at the record energy of seven trillion electron volts (TeV).
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CERN sets date for first attempt at 7 TeV collisions in the LHC
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
With beams routinely circulating in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, CERN has set the date for the start of the LHC research programme. The first attempt for collisions at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) is scheduled for 30 March.
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Meet Oleksandr Grebenyuk
Monday, March 15, 2010
Like many scientists, Oleksandr Grebenyuk is on a quest to better understand how the world works.
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NYC-Based Science Writers Meet RHIC, LHC
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Physicist Gene Van Buren shows off the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider on March 10 during a media tour hosted by Brookhaven and Science Writers in New York.
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Exotic Antimatter Detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Scientists report discovery of the heaviest known antinucleus and the first containing an anti-strange quark, laying the first stake in a new frontier of physics.
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Meigan Aronson Named Department of Defense Security Fellow
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Meigan Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven Lab and a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to be one of 11 distinguished scientists and engineers forming the 2010 class of its National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship program.
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'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC
Monday, February 15, 2010
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven Lab, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in RHIC's most energetic collisions.
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'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup
Monday, February 15, 2010
Recent analyses from Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at nearly the speed of light have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celsius, higher than the temperature needed to melt protons and neutrons into a plasma of quarks and gluons.
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New Findings on Hot Quark Soup Produced at RHIC
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Scientists from Brookhaven Lab and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world’s largest particle accelerator dedicated to nuclear physics research, will present compelling new findings about the nature of the “perfect” liquid created in near-light-speed collisions of gold ions at RHIC.
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RHIC Gets ‘Cool’ for Higher Collision Rates
Monday, February 1, 2010
For the first time in a high-energy collider, physicists at Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider used stochastic cooling to stop beam bunches from becoming fatter as they circulate.
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Electronic Liquid Crystal States Discovered in Parent of Iron-Based Superconductor
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Scientists discover evidence for ‘electronic liquid crystal’ states within the parent compound of one type of iron-based, high-temperature superconductor.
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Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Selects First Spokespeople
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Brookhaven physicist Milind Diwan is one of two scientists selected as spokespeople for neutrino-probing experiment.
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Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded two scientists from Brookhaven Lab with the distinction of Fellow. Chi-Chang Kao and Thomas Ludlam will be among 531 AAAS members to receive this honor.
2009
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Six Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named American Physical Society Fellows
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Six scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), a professional organization with more than 47,000 members.
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An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has just started producing collisions, but scientists and engineers have already made significant progress in preparing for future upgrades beyond the collider’s nominal design performance.
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Brookhaven Hosts ATLAS Jamboree in Anticipation of LHC Second Run
Thursday, December 3, 2009
On the eve of the reactivation of the Large Hadron Collider, scientists gathered at Brookhaven to mobilize the brainpower necessary to sort through clues of the early universe.
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LHC Sets New World Record
Monday, November 30, 2009
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV. This exceeds the previous world record of 0.98 TeV, which had been held by Fermilab’s Tevatron collider since 2001.
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Observation of Confinement Phenomenon in Condensed Matter
Sunday, November 29, 2009
An experiment has confirmed that spinons, particle-like magnetic excitations, can be confined in a magnetic insulator similar to the way elementary quarks are confined within individual protons and neutrons.
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New Results From T2K
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first neutrino events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan.
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Beams are Back in the Large Hadron Collider
Monday, November 23, 2009
Particle beams are once again zooming around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider—located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC’s 17-mile ring.
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Physicist Anna Stasto Honored with DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award and Sloan Research Fellowship
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Anna Stasto, a fellow with the RIKEN-BNL Research Center and a former research associate in the Physics Department, has received DOE’s Outstanding Junior Investigator Award for her research in nuclear physics.
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Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, BNL physicists have identified a single layer responsible for one such material’s superconductivity, opening a path for the design of tunable superconducting electronic devices.
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Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies
Friday, October 9, 2009
A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have huge implications for use of one of the most versatile classes of materials available to us for future technology applications: copper oxide ceramics.
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Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature
Thursday, August 27, 2009
A new study shows that a “fingerprint” of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact above the super chilly temperatures at which these materials carry current with no resistance, offering hope for energy-saving applications under real-world conditions.
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A Kinoform’s Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Researchers have demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond, a valuable development for future light sources.
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Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Brookhaven Lab scientists have grown large enough crystals of one well-studied high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductor to directly measure its magnetic properties. These measurements cast considerable doubt on assumptions commonly made in trying to understand the role magnetism plays in these materials’ ability to carry current with no resistance.
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Meet Astrid Morreale
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
A quick Q&A with Astrid Morreale, a RHIC postdoc at Brookhaven Lab who looks at small electrically charged particles called pions, which emerge from smashing two polarized proton beams together.
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Spotlight on the Gluon
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
On Tuesday, July 21, join Michael Begelas as he gives the Sambamurti Memorial Lecture “Spotlight on the Gluon” in the Large Seminar Room of the Physics Dept., Bldg. 510. Refreshments at 3 p.m., lecture at 3:30 p.m.
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BNLers Honored at Lab Recognition Ceremony
Monday, July 20, 2009
At the annual Employee Recognition Ceremony held June 22 in Berkner Hall, 13 BNLers were honored with the Lab’s highest awards: five received the Brookhaven Award, five, the Engineering & Computing Award, and two, the Science & Technology Award.
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Brookhaven Physicists Win Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
J.C. Seamus Davis and John Tranquada, physicists at Brookhaven Lab, along with Aharon Kapitulnik of Stanford University, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding superconductivity experiments.
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Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
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Physicist Nicholas Samios Awarded Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Samios, former Laboratory Director and Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center at Brookhaven National Lab, will receive the 2009 Gian Carlo Wick Award for his outstanding contributions to particle physics.
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Student Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Physics
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Jonathan Rameau, a doctoral student at Stony Brook University (SBU) has won the 2009 Dr. Nathaniel and Fanie Soroff Prize for outstanding contributions to physics. His research on superconductivity was done at Brookhaven Lab's National Synchrotron Light Source.
High School Students Come to Grips With High Energy Physics Research
Monday, April 13, 2009
Students from six local high schools recently came to BNL to experience research with physicist Helio Takai. They were among more than 6,000 high school students from around the world who participated in the annual international Hands-on Particle Physics Masterclasses.
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2009 RHIC Run Features New Energy Milestone for Exploring Proton Puzzle
Friday, March 27, 2009
Physicists working at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are exploring the puzzle of proton spin as they begin taking data during the 2009 RHIC run. For the first time, RHIC is running at a record energy of 500 giga-electron volts (GeV) per collision, more than double the previous runs in which polarized proton beams collided at 200 GeV.
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Ultracold Gas Mimics Ultrahot Plasma
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven Lab have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot and dense plasma "fluid" created to simulate conditions when the universe was about one millionths of a second old.
2008
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LHC to Restart in 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
CERN has confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart in 2009. This news forms part of an updated report, published today, on the status of the LHC following a malfunction on 19 September.
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Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears — in 2-D
Monday, December 1, 2008
Scientists studying a material that appeared to lose its ability to carry current with no resistance say new measurements reveal that the material is indeed a superconductor — but only in two dimensions. Equally surprising, this new form of 2-D superconductivity emerges at a higher temperature than ordinary 3-D superconductivity in other compositions of the same material.
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Electron Pairs Precede High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, Brookhaven physicists have found ways to sharpen images of the energy spectra in high-temperature superconductors — materials that carry electrical current effortlessly when cooled below a certain temperature. These new imaging methods confirm that the electron pairs needed to carry current emerge above the transition temperature, before superconductivity sets in, but only in a particular direction.
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World’s biggest computing grid launched
Friday, October 3, 2008
The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator.
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First Beam for Large Hadron Collider
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
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Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the LSST is "perfect", say project astronomers and engineers. The Mirror Lab team opened the furnace for a close-up look at the cooled 51,900-pound mirror blank. . It is the first time a combined primary and tertiary mirror has been produced on such a large scale.
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U.S. Scientists Count Down to LHC Startup
Thursday, August 7, 2008
On September 10, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider will attempt for the first time to send a proton beam zooming around the 27-kilometer-long accelerator. The LHC, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, is located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Journalists are invited to attend LHC first beam events at CERN and several locations within the United States.
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RHIC and Its Impact on Nuclear Science
Friday, June 6, 2008
On Wednesday, May 28, the RHIC and AGS Users' Meeting featured a special, all-day symposium entitled "RHIC & Its Impact on Nuclear Science." The talks started with Gordon Baym, who gave a historical perspective of the RHIC heavy-ion program from its inception at a 1974 workshop held at Bear Mountain.
RHIC, AGS Users' Meeting Reflects on Past, Looks Toward Future of Nuclear Physics
Friday, June 6, 2008
Participants in the 2008 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) Users' Meeting got a taste of the rich history of nuclear physics at Brookhaven, as well as a glimpse of the future directions the Lab might take in the field.
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Protons Pair Up with Neutrons
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Research performed at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that protons are about 20 times more likely to pair up with neutrons than with other protons in the nucleus. The work builds on earlier research performed at Brookhaven Lab's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron.
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Korea University President Visits U.S. National Laboratory
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Professor Ki-Su Lee, President of Korea University, visited Brookhaven on May 13. Professor Lee came to Brookhaven Lab, a premier science research center, to get a first-hand look at PHENIX, a massive detector used for physics experiments on the early universe.
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Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Scientists at Brookhaven and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that nanosized regions with local polarizations, or "electric dipoles," in a special class of otherwise disordered materials may underlie these materials' extreme electromechanical response to an external electric field or physical deformation.
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Where's the glue?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
New research indicates that the secret to superconductivity, a phenomenon which has the potential to revolutionize the distribution of electrical power, may rest on the ability of electrons to take advantage of their natural repulsion in a complex situation.
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Last Large Piece of ATLAS Detector Lowered Underground
Friday, February 29, 2008
Researchers in the U.S. ATLAS collaboration have joined colleagues around the world to celebrate a landmark in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the lowering of the final piece of the ATLAS particle detector into the underground collision hall at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory
Friday, February 8, 2008
A new calculation, reported in the January 25, 2008 issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms the six-quark theory of particle-anti-particle asymmetry. This is the first complete calculation of this phenomenon to employ a highly accurate description of the quarks that adds a fifth dimension beyond those of space and time.
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Racing Ahead at the Speed of Light
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Imagine trying to catch up to something moving close to the speed of light and sending ahead information in time to make mid-path flight corrections. Impossible? Not quite. Physicists at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have achieved this tricky task.
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LSST Receives $30 Million from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project, in which Brookhaven National Lab is a contributor, has announced receipt of two major gifts: $20M from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and $10M from Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
2007
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DOE's Office of Science Launches Website for U.S. Role at Large Hadron Collider
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science has launched a new website to tell the story of the U.S. role in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator that will begin operating in Europe, near Geneva, Switzerland, next year.
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Hidden Order Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborating institutions around the world have detected a hidden "string order" that extends over a length of 30 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in a material that is otherwise apparently disordered. The findings could have implications for the design of materials at the nanoscale, including those used for a developing concept known as quantum computing.
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Researchers Produce Firsts with Bursts of Light
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have generated extremely short pulses of light that are the strongest of their type ever produced and could prove invaluable in probing the ultra-fast motion of atoms and electrons. The scientists also made the first observations of a phenomenon called cross-phase modulation with this high-intensity light - a characteristic that could be used in numerous new light source technologies.
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Homestake Strikes Gold Again
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Homestake, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, near Lead, South Dakota, as the site for a multipurpose deep underground science and engineering laboratory. The proposal, chosen from a field of four finalists, was prepared by a multi-institutional collaboration of researchers and submitted to an NSF site selection panel through the University of California (UC) at Berkeley.
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Unlocking the Secrets of High-temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Although it was discovered more than 20 years ago, a particular type of high-temperature (Tc) superconductor — material that conducts electricity with almost zero resistance — is regaining the attention of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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To the Edge of Melting
Friday, February 2, 2007
Scientists have used advanced tools to see the very first instants of change in a solid brought to the edge of melting. Peter Siddons, physicist at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source, designed and built the x-ray detectors for an x-ray source at SLAC that used pulses of light just quadrillionths of a second long.
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Researchers Observe Superradiance in a Free Electron Laser
Friday, January 19, 2007
BNL researchers have generated extremely short light pulses using a new technique that could be used in the next generation of light source facilities around the world to catch molecules and atoms in action. The team's findings describe the use of a laser to control the pulse duration of light from a free electron laser.
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Google Joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
Monday, January 8, 2007
Google has joined a group of nineteen organizations, including Brookhaven Lab, that are building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Scheduled to begin operations in 2013, the 8.4-meter LSST will be able to survey the entire visible southern sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its three-billion pixel digital camera.
2006
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One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Research published online in the journal Science this week by Tonica Valla, a physicist at Brookhaven, appears to resolve one mystery in the 20-year study of high-temperature (high Tc) superconductors — materials that lose their resistance to the flow of electricity at relatively high temperatures. The research shows that a "pseudogap" in the energy level of the material's electronic spectrum is the result of the electrons being bound into pairs above the so-called transition temperature to the
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Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Wins First Polanyi Award
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The winners of the inaugural $250,000 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award are the scientists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), who are being honored for their groundbreaking research on neutrinos, announced the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The idea behind SNO's most notable achievement - proving neutrino oscillation - began with Brookhaven chemist Ray Davis Jr.
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PASER: A Novel Acceleration Scheme Demonstrated at Brookhaven Lab
Thursday, September 21, 2006
A group of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has used the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to demonstrate, for the first time, the feasibility of particle acceleration by stimulated emission of radiation (PASER), a kind of particle analog of the laser process.
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More Evidence for "Stripes" in High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
An international collaboration including two physicists from Brookhaven National Laboratory has published additional evidence to support the existence of "stripes" in high-temperature (Tc) superconductors. The report in the April 27, 2006, issue of Nature strengthens earlier claims that such stripes, a particular spatial arrangement of electrical charges, might somehow contribute to the mechanism by which these materials carry current with no resistance.
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Direct Photon Properties Reveal Secrets of Extreme Nuclear States
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
When atomic nuclei are smashed together at great speed, resulting temperatures exceed one trillion degrees. Scientists who study nuclear matter under extreme conditions have a particular interest in the properties of particles of light called photons. Using RHIC, Stefan Bathe has measured characteristics of photons to reveal data about the temperature and density of a nuclear collision.
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Seeking Answers to the Puzzle of Proton Spin
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Thanks to a series of machine upgrades, researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the newest and largest particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, are making progress in answering a fundamental question that has long puzzled physicists: Where do protons get their spin, a property of elementary particles as basic as mass and electrical charge?
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Discovery Prospects at the Large Hadron Collider
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Will scientists ever find the elusive Higgs particle, the last of the fundamental particles predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics and postulated to play a major role in how fundamental particles get their masses? Are there undiscovered particles "beyond" those described by the Standard Model? Experiments expected to begin next year at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new particle accelerator at CERN will take up the search.
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MINOS Experiment Sheds Light on Mystery of Neutrino Disappearance
Thursday, March 30, 2006
An international collaboration of scientists at Fermil have announced the first results of a new neutrino experiment. Sending a high-intensity beam of muon neutrinos from the lab's site in Illinois to a particle detector in Soudan, Minnesota, scientists observed the disappearance of a significant fraction of these neutrinos.
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New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors
Thursday, March 16, 2006
In the twenty years since the discovery of high-temperature (Tc) superconductors, scientists have been trying to understand the mechanism by which electrons pair up and move coherently to carry electrical current with no resistance. "We are still at the beginning," says Tonica Valla, a physicist at Brookhaven, who will give a talk on his group's latest results at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on Thursday, March 16, 2006.
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Freezing Magnets With Magnets
Monday, March 13, 2006
Jason Gardner, a scientist at Brookhaven and and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been able to freeze a spin liquid by applying a magnetic field. This liquid-to-solid transition (like water to ice) allowed Gardner and his colleagues to reveal an unusual property of a spin liquid system, a property that may hold the key to understanding this unusual magnetic state and how it could be used to better understand superconductivity.
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The Strange Case of the Disappearing Quasiparticles
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
In the "standard model" of condensed matter physics, elementary energy carriers are called quasiparticles. Understanding when and how these energy carriers fail to perform their mission opens doors to new phenomena and may lead to new and important discoveries in the atomic nano-world of condensed matter materials.
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PHENIX Publishes Three Papers in Single Edition of Physical Review Letters
Monday, February 20, 2006
The PHENIX collaboration, one of four experiments taking place at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), published three key papers in the January 26 online edition of Physical Review Letters.
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A "Ferroelectric" Material Reveals Unexpected, Intriguing Behavior
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
In electronics-based technologies, "relaxor ferroelectrics" often make up key circuit components due to their unique electrical behavior. They are good imsulators capable of sustaining large electrical fields and can turn a mechanical force into electrical energy. Scientists at Brookhaven investigated the poorly understood origins of these abilities — with surprising results.
2005
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Lab Celebrates New Supercomputer
Thursday, December 1, 2005
In honor of the 25th anniversary of a scientific paper describing the first use of Monte Carlo methods and lattice gauge calculations in the study of quantum chromodynamics, scientists gathered at Brookhaven National Laboratory for a morning of talks to dedicate the newest supercomputer devoted to these studies.
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Receives $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award
Friday, September 2, 2005
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has received the first year of a four-year, $14.2 million award from the National Science Foundation to design and develop a world-class, 8.4-meter telescope scheduled for completion in 2012.
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RIKEN BNL Research Center Dedicates New Supercomputer for Physics Research
Thursday, May 26, 2005
The RIKEN BNL Research Center supercomputer has been unveiled at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Called QCDOC for quantum chromodynamics on a chip, it has 10 teraflops of peak computing power, which makes it capable of performing 10 trillion arithmetic calculations per second.
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LHC Computing Centres Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge
Monday, April 25, 2005
In a significant milestone for scientific grid computing, eight major computing centres successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) on average for 10 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to seven sites in Europe and the US.
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RHIC Scientists Serve Up 'Perfect' Liquid
Monday, April 18, 2005
The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a giant atom "smasher" located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, say they've created a new state of hot, dense matter out of the quarks and gluons that are the basic particles of atomic nuclei, but it is a state quite different and even more remarkable than had been predicted.
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Quasiparticle Behavior in Bose Quantum Liquids
Friday, March 25, 2005
Quasiparticles carry energy in condensed matter. Understanding when and how these energy carriers fail opens doors to another level of understanding, and can lead the way to many new and important theories. Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered the failure point for the quasiparticle construct, the standard model of condensed matter physics.
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Increasing Charge Mobility in Single Molecular Organic Crystals
Monday, March 21, 2005
In research that may help determine the best materials for a wide range of future electronics applications, a scientist from Brookhaven National Laboratory will report on the intrinsic electronic properties of molecular organic crystals at the March 2005 meeting of the American Physical Society.
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Spintronic Materials Show Their First Move
Monday, March 21, 2005
How much energy does it take for an electron to hop from atom to atom, and how do the magnetic properties of the material influence the rate or ease of hopping? Answers to those questions could help explain why some materials, like those used in a computer hard drive, become conductors only in a magnetic field while they are very strong insulators otherwise.
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Answer from 'Dusty Shelf' Aids Quest to See Matter as it Was Just After Big Bang
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem — some of the reactions they are getting don't mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.
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Floating Films on Liquid Mercury
Friday, January 14, 2005
Scientists from Brookhaven, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and discovered that the molecules form ordered structures.
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Copper vs. Copper at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Scientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of matter not seen since the Big Bang begin employing a new experimental probe, collisions between two beams of copper ions.
2004
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Research on "Holes" May Unearth Causes of Superconductivity
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered another possible clue to the causes of high-temperature superconductivity, a phenomenon in which the electrical resistance of a material disappears below a certain temperature.
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New Physics Law Unifies Several Superconducting Compounds
Friday, July 30, 2004
A research group led by a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered a simple relationship that mathematically links the properties of a class of high-temperature superconductors, materials that, below a certain temperature, conduct electricity with no resistance.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Titanium, a "Key" that Assists Hydrogen Storage
Friday, July 23, 2004
Scientists at Brookhaven and the New Jersey Institute of Technology have taken steps toward understanding how a titanium compound reacts with a hydrogen-storage material to catalyze the release and re-absorption of hydrogen. Their results may help scientists develop more efficient storage materials for hydrogen fuel cells.
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New Precision Measurement of Top Quark Mass
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
A new precision measurement of the top quark mass is being made public by the journal Nature and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Brookhaven physicists were involved in identifying and selecting the events for the top quark mass measurement, and checking the validity of the new measurement.
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Why Calcium Improves a High-Temperature Superconductor
Monday, June 7, 2004
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found evidence to prove why adding a small amount of calcium to a common high-temperature superconductor significantly increases the amount of electric current the material can carry.
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Fluid "Stripes" May Be Essential for High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Scientists at Brookhaven, in collaboration with researchers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom and Tohoku University in Japan, have discovered evidence supporting a possible mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity that had previously appeared incompatible with certain experimental observations.
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New Machine Record for Heavy Ion Luminosity at RHIC
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven has established a new machine record for heavy ion luminosity, well above its previous performance. Luminosity is an extremely important measure of a colliding-beam accelerator's performance.
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Studying 3-D Materials in One Dimension
Friday, March 26, 2004
Research by Young-June Kim, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, may help determine how a class of materials already used in electronic circuits could be used in optical, or light-based, circuits, which could replace standard electrical circuits in telecommunications, computer networking, and other areas of technology.
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Bright Light Yields Unusual Vibes
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
By bombarding very thin slices of several copper/oxygen compounds, called cuprates, with very bright, short-lived pulses of light, Ivan Bozovic, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and his collaborators have discovered an unusual property of the materials.
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Physicists See Golden Needle in a Micro-Cosmic Haystack
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
An international team of physicists examining an extremely rare form of subatomic particle decay - a veritable golden needle in a micro-cosmic haystack of 7.8 trillion candidates - has discovered evidence for the highly sought process, which could be an indication of new forces beyond those incorporated in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Another Twist in the Field of Superconductivity
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered an interesting type of electronic behavior in a recently discovered class of superconductors known as cobalt oxides, or cobaltates. These materials operate quite differently from other oxide superconductors, namely the copper oxides (or cuprates), which are commonly referred to as high-temperature superconductors.
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Scientists Investigate the Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, February 23, 2004
Using crystal samples prepared at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, have ruled out two proposed theories for the subatomic mechanisms of superconductivity, a phenomenon in which the electrical resistance of certain materials drops to zero.
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RHIC Results Make Headlines at Quark Matter 2004
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Physicists from the four experimental collaborations collecting data at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) presented their latest results and analyses at the Quark Matter 2004 meeting held in Oakland, California, January 11 – 17.
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Scientists at Brookhaven Contribute to the Development of a Better Electron Accelerator
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a compact linear accelerator that uses laser light to accelerate electrons with better efficiency and energy characteristics than ever before.
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New g-2 Measurement Deviates Further From Standard Model
Thursday, January 8, 2004
The latest result from an international collaboration of scientists investigating how the spin of a muon is affected as this type of subatomic particle moves through a magnetic field deviates further than previous measurements from theoretical predictions.
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New g-2 Measurement to be Announced at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, January 2, 2004
Physicists from an international collaboration investigating how the spin of a muon is affected as this type of subatomic particle moves through a magnetic field will present their latest precision measurement at a special colloquium
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Exciting First Results from Deuteron-Gold Collisions at Brookhaven
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
The latest results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world’s most powerful facility for nuclear physics research, strengthen scientists’ confidence that RHIC collisions of gold ions have created unusual conditions and that they are on the right path to discover a form of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, believed to have existed in the first microseconds after the birth of the universe.
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RHIC Resumes Operation With First Deuteron-Gold Collisions
Monday, January 13, 2003
Scientists at Brookhaven Lab are continuing their quest for an elusive form of matter, but this time with a twist — instead of colliding gold ions at nearly the speed of light in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), they are colliding gold ions with deuterium ions in an attempt to help unravel the mystery.
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RHIC Begins Colliding High-Energy Polarized Protons
Monday, December 17, 2001
The newest and largest particle accelerator at Brookhaven Lab is taking a break from recreating the conditions of the early universe to investigate another fundamental question that has puzzled physicists: Where do protons get their spin?
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Update on the g-2 Experiment
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Brookhaven National Laboratory's February 2001 announcement that the muon g-2 experiment had detected a possible "hole" in the Standard Model of particle physics was based on comparing an experimentally derived measurement for "g-2" with a value predicted by the Standard Model theory.
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RHIC Resumes Operation With First Full-Energy Collisions
Wednesday, July 18, 2001
cientists at Brookhaven Lab have taken their search for an elusive form of matter to a new level by bringing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) up to full collision energy.
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Physicists Announce Possible Violation of Standard Model of Particle Physics
Thursday, February 8, 2001
Scientists announced an experimental result that directly confronts the so-called Standard Model of particle physics.
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First Results From Brookhaven Lab's New Collider
Monday, January 15, 2001
Today, at the Quark Matter 2001 Conference at Stony Brook University, nearly 700 physicists from around the world gathered to hear breaking news about the exploration of a new frontier recently opened at Brookhaven Lab.
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