Abhay Deshpande
Associate Laboratory Director, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Lab Director Reports, Nuclear and Particle Physics
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nuclear and Particle Physics
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-8783
(516) 909-4137
abhay@bnl.gov
Abhay Deshpande is interim associate laboratory director (ALD) for Nuclear and Particle Physics (NPP) and the EIC Sciecne Director at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is also a State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor in the department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. He is Founding Director of the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (CFNS), setup jointly by BNL and Stony Brook University. Abhay studies the quark-gluon structure and dynamics inside the protons and nuclei to understand Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions within the Standard Model of physics. He also uses precision electroweak probes to explore the limits of the Standard Model (SM) of physics and search for effects beyond it.
Expertise | Research | Education
Expertise
Abhay Deshpande works in experimental nuclear and high energy physics. His current research includes various exploratory and precision studies in QCD using polarized proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus beams of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island; and high intensity polarized electron beams of the recently upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory, in Newport News, Virginia.
Research Activities
Abhay has been involved and led nuclear/particle physics experiments at BNL (Upton, NY, USA), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), DESY (Hamburg, Germany), Jefferson Laboratory (Newport News, Virginia, USA)) and PSI (Zurich, Switzerland). He is one of the earliest proponents of the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) since the late 1990’s and has been a leader in developing the EIC science, making the case for it, initiating, and organizing the Users Community and detector collaborations around this project.
Education
Abhay received his Master’s in physics from Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India) in 1987, Ph.D. from Yale University in experimental high-energy particle physics in 1994. After spending four years at CERN and DESY as a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist, he became a Fellow of the RIKEN BNL Research Center at BNL in 2000. He moved to Stony Brook University as tenure track Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University in 2004, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2008, Professor in 2013 and finally appointed State University of New York’s highest professorship “Distinguished Professor” in 2021.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nuclear and Particle Physics
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-8783
(516) 909-4137
abhay@bnl.gov
