Research Facilities
|
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider A recently completed accelerator designed to collide intersecting beams of heavy ions in the search for a state of matter called quark-gluon plasma. |
|
Alternating
Gradient Synchrotron An 843 ft. diameter particle accelerator used to propel protons and heavy ions to high energies for physics research. Auxiliary facilities include the 200-MeV Linac, AGS Booster, and the NASA Space Radiation Research Laboratory. |
|
NASA
Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) This is one of the few facilities in the world that can simulate the harsh cosmic and solar radiation environment found in space. NSRL employs beams of heavy ions extracted from Brookhaven’s Booster accelerator, the best in the United States for radiobiology studies. |
|
National
Synchrotron Light Source An accelerator designed specifically to produce synchrotron radiation that can be used to probe the fine structure of matter. Blue synchrotron light is seen here through a vacuum window. |
|
Center
for Functional Nanomaterials This Center will provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate and study nanoscale materials. The Center's focus is to achieve a basic understanding of how these materials respond when in nanoscale form. Nanomaterials offer different chemical and physical properties than bulk materials, and have the potential to form the basis of new technologies. |
|
Electron
Beam Ion Source (EBIS) EBIS is a new pre-injector system for the RHIC and NASA Space Radiation Laboratory science programs. The first of several planned improvements to the RHIC facility, EBIS will help transform RHIC into the Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) Lab that will enable the study of QCD in more detail. |
|
Tandem
Van de Graaff The Tandem Van de Graaff accelerators are used to bombard materials with ions for manufacturing and testing purposes. They are also used to supply RHIC with heavy ions. |
|
High-Field
MRI Facility Used for human medical imaging studies, this facility houses a nuclear magnetic resonance instrument with a 4 Tesla whole-body magnet capable of generating one of the highest field strengths in the world for human study. |
|
Accelerator
Test Facility The Accelerator Test Facility is used to explore new ideas on particle acceleration and the production of brighter x-ray beams for research applications. |
|
Positron
Emission Tomography (PET) Facility The PET facility is used to image the brain for studies on the treatment of human addiction, the aging process and drug research and development. |
|
Laser
Electron Accelerator Facility (LEAF) A picosecond laser-electron accelerator facility at BNL's Center for Radiation Chemistry Research. |
|
Cyclotrons Operated by the Chemistry Department, the 60-inch cyclotron and 40-inch "medical cyclotron" are used for the production of radiotracers for use in PET and MRI studies. |
|
Transmission
Electron Microscope Operated by the Energy Sciences & Technology Department, this 300 kV field emission electron microscope is a unique probe for materials characterization. |
|
Scanning
Transmission Electron Microscope Operated by the Biology Department, this is a custom-built electron microscope optimized for imaging unstained biological molecules with minimal radiation damage. |
ATLAS
ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS), is one of four detectors to be located at a powerful new accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), now under construction near Geneva, Switzerland. Read an overview of the BNL contribution. |
|
Spallation
Neutron Source The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is the world's foremost neutron scattering science facility for conducting chemistry and structural biology. Brookhaven is responsible for the design of the SNS accumulator ring. |
Last Modified: January 31, 2008