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Staff from the Laboratory's Superconducting Magnet Division examine a
"snake" magnet used at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. Snake
magnets are used to flip the spin of the protons as they travel around an
accelerator to eliminate depolarization, called “resonances,” which occur
during acceleration. |
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An end view of collision between deuterons and gold ions captured by the
STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). |
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Image of the strength of the magnetic field produced by a superconducting
quadrupole magnet built by the BNL Superconducting Magnet Division for the
HERA electron-proton collider at the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.
It was built using technology developed at BNL for manufacturing some of
the specialized magnets for the RHIC facility.
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Brookhaven's main gate sign.
The Laboratory is operated by Brookhaven Science Associates,
a not-for-profit research management company, under contract
with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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RHIC's "siberian snake" magnets have a corkscrew-like design, which
causes the direction of the magnetic field to spiral along the
direction of the beam. There are two snakes in each of RHIC’s two
2.4-mile-circumference rings, located at opposite sides of each
ring. As the beam moves through the snakes, the magnetic field flips
the polarization allowing scientists to maintain a stable beam.
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The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) facility. Brookhaven is a
world leader in brain research, including how drugs, mental illness,
nicotine, alcohol and even normal aging affect the brain.
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PHENIX is one of the four large detectors that helps physicists analyze
the particle collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC). |
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The STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
As big as a house, STAR searches for signatures of the form of matter that
RHIC aims to create: the quark-gluon plasma. |
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End view of a collision of two 30-billion electron-volt gold
beams in the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at
Brookhaven National Laboratory. The beams travel in opposite directions at
nearly the speed of light before colliding. |
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Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (top, center) is 2.4 miles in circumference, and
dominates Brookhaven's 5,265-acre campus.
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Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source is a major user
facility at the Lab, drawing close to 2,500 visiting researchers
each year from industry, universities and other laboratories. They
use the Light Source's intense beams of x-rays and ultraviolet light
to carry out a wide range of studies in diverse scientific fields.
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A view of the superconducting magnets at Brookhaven's Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider. As gold particles zip along the collider's 2.4
mile long tunnel at nearly the speed of light, 1,740 of these
magnets guide and focus the particle beams.
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Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) attracts about
2,500 scientists each year from academia, industry and other labs to
use the facility's powerful x-rays, ultraviolet light and infrared
light.
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