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Superconducting Magnet Researchers Develop Exciting New HTS Technology
October 05, 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.
Higgs-search Technology to Tackle Astrophysics, Biology
September 18, 2012
Particle physics software to flex its data-mining muscle on dark matter, biology, and cosmic history.
U.S. Collaborators to Make Higgs-hunting Tech Available
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.
In Memoriam: David Alburger
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.
High Energy Physics Lessons in Africa
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.
Magnetic Vortex Reveals Key to Spintronic Speed Limit
August 28, 2012
Scientists measured a key effect of electron spin essential to engineering the next generation of high-performing digital devices.
Stony Brook University Student Wins 2012 Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber Prize
August 23, 2012
Annual prize to advance women in science, administered by Brookhaven Women in Science, is awarded to SBU’s Marija Kotur.
White House Congratulates US-ATLAS Collaboration on Discovery of Higgs
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.
Quark Matter’s Connection with the Higgs
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.
Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter
August 13, 2012
Energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals first hints of phase boundary
RIKEN – BNL Agreement Renewed
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.
Scientists Honored for Groundbreaking Matter/Antimatter Calculation
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.
Athena Marneris Studies What Makes Glass Tubes Implode
August 06, 2012
As an intern at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Athena Marneris helped scientists design a new device for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Latest Findings on Primordial ‘Soup’ and Nature’s Strongest Force
August 02, 2012
Physicists recreating conditions of early universe present new data at Quark Matter 2012.
Physicists Sally Dawson and Howard Gordon to give talk on possible discovery of Higgs particle, July 25
July 24, 2012
Sally Dawson and Howard Gordon, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will give a talk entitled, “A discovery! The Higgs? Why is this important? How it was done,” on Wednesday, July 25, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall. Live webcast will be available on WBNL.
Hot Nuclear Matter Featured in Science
July 19, 2012
Prelude to new RHIC/LHC findings to be presented at Quark Matter 2012.
Titan Supercomputer Hours Awarded to Collaborative Protein Project
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.
The Frontiers of RHIC Physics
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.
Unprecedented Subatomic Details of Exotic Ferroelectric Nanomaterials
July 08, 2012
As scientists learn to manipulate little-understood nanoscalematerials, they are laying the foundation for a future of more compact,efficient, and innovative devices.
Search for Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider reveals new particle
July 04, 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.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Particle Physics Fireworks for the 4th?
July 03, 2012
Scientists present latest results in search for Higgs particle.
Brookhaven Lab Collider Crucial to Future of Nuclear Physics
July 03, 2012
National Research Council report details breakthroughs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its key role in the field over the next decade.
Brookhaven Lab Central to Future of Nuclear Physics
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.
Sambamurti Memorial Lecture, 6/26
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.
Brewing the World’s Hottest Guinness
June 26, 2012
Brookhaven’s ion collider smashes both atoms and a Guinness World Record by achieving the hottest man-made temperature ever.
$27 Million Award Bolsters Research Computing Grid
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.
Brookhaven Lab’s Ivan Bozovic Wins Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials
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.
The Owl Shift at STAR and PHENIX
June 15, 2012
Keeping tabs on the activities at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider detectors through the wee hours.
Taking Hybrids for a Spin to Generate Electricity from Sunlight
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.
The Glue that Binds Us All
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.
eRHIC: Colliding Electrons with Ions at RHIC
June 12, 2012
There are compelling reasons to build an electron-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Chat with Scientists on Twitter "The Science of the Very Fast and Very Small"
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.
Groundbreaking for Expansion and Renovation of American Physical Society’s Editorial Office
June 06, 2012
Lab Director Sam Aronson attends ceremony marking expansion of APS offices in Ridge.
Fermilab Experiment Announces World's Best Measurement of Key Property of Neutrinos
June 05, 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.
Plotting the Future for Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
June 01, 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.
Update From RHIC Run 12: One World Record, Three World Firsts
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.
RHIC Explores Matter at the Dawn of Time
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.
Topological Insulator Shows Promise for New Class of Room-Temperature Electronics
May 08, 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.
Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models
May 04, 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.
New Technique Uses Electrons to Map Nanoparticle Atomic Structures
May 04, 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.
Atomic-scale Visualization of Electron Pairing in Iron Superconductors
May 03, 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.
477th Brookhaven Lecture Today, 4/25: Supercomputers and Mathematical Models for Multiphysics Simulations in Energy and Accelerator Sciences
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.
Scientists Discover Bilayer Structure in Efficient Solar Material
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.
Quirky Photos
April 23, 2012
Photographer Stanley Greenberg captures "Quirky Photos" at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Anthony Baltz Named Senior Scientist Emeritus, Honored at ‘Baltzfest’
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.
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Triveni Rao to be Honored at Asian American Celebration
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.
Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator: A Unique Accelerator that Reclaims Energy
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.
Coherent Electron Cooling: Combining Methods to Cool Particle Beams and Increase Collision Rates at RHIC
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.
Supercomputing the Difference between Matter and Antimatter
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.
Details of Hot Quark Soup, New Liquid Neutrino Detector, and Ultra-Bright Light Source
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?
Lab Forms Search Committee for New NPP ALD
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.
Collider-Accelerator Department’s Erdong Wang Wins 2012 IEEE/NPSS PAST Doctoral Student Award
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.
Triveni Rao wins Brookhaven Town’s 2012 Women’s Recognition Award
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.
Brookhaven Lab's Sam Aronson Inducted into the Long Island Technology Hall of Fame
March 09, 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.
Announcing the First Results from Daya Bay: Discovery of a New Kind of Neutrino Transformation
March 08, 2012
An international team pinpoints the last, most elusive measurement needed to help solve the mystery of the disappearing neutrino.
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Genda Gu Named American Physical Society Fellow
March 02, 2012
Condensed Matter physicist honored for pioneering single crystal growth for use in high-temperature superconductors.
Carl Dover Memorial Lecture, 3/1
March 01, 2012
Professor Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich of Heidelberg University, Germany, will give the Carl Dover Memorial Lecture, titled “Exploring Strange Matters,” on Thursday, March 1.
Katherine Prestridge to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on “Clouds, Waves, and Supernovas,” March 15
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.
Brookhaven Physicists Team Up with Medical Industry to Build Advanced Cancer Therapy Accelerator
February 27, 2012
BNL scientists use particle accelerator expertise to push the frontiers of cancer treatment.
Brookhaven National Laboratory Completes Major Science Lab Renovation
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.
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Guangyong Xu Receives 2012 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America
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.
CASE Accelerates Accelerator Education
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.
Ten BNL Scientists Granted Tenure: Meet James Alessi and Hooman Davoudiasl
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.
BNL Hosts Two Semifinalists in 2012 Intel Science Contest
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.
RHIC Enters the Race for Run 12
January 09, 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.
Brookhaven Scientists Help Develop Model for Future Accelerators
January 09, 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.
Groundbreaking Results Promise Smaller, Cheaper Therapy Machines that Could Revolutionise Cancer Treatment and More
January 09, 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.
The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, and Colliding Hadrons: Huh?
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.
Brookhaven Lab and the Search for the Higgs
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.
Possible Hints of the Higgs Remain in Latest Analyses
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.
Colossal Conducting Variation at the Nanoscale
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.
Brookhaven Lab Physicists Graham Smith and Craig Woody Named IEEE Fellows
December 09, 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.
Physicist Yasuyuki Akiba Receives the 2011 Nishina Memorial Prize
December 02, 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.
Brookhaven Lab's Ruth Van de Water Receives 2011 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists
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.
In Memoriam: Norman Ramsey
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.
Daya Bay Today: BNL and Collaborators Enable Next Step in Neutrino Research
November 02, 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.
Nanoconfinement of Organic Solar Cell Material Enhances Conductivity
October 24, 2011
Nanometer-scale restructuring of a polymer used in organic solar cells could lead to improved devices.
Impurity Atoms Introduce Waves of Disorder in Exotic Electronic Material
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.
Historic Site Hurrah at Brookhaven Lab
October 11, 2011
Celebrations were under way as the American Physical Society recognized BNL as a historic site for advancements in physics.
APS Historic Site 2011 Walking Tour
October 03, 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).
Physics Phoenix: Plotting the Journey of Muon g – 2
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.
Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed to Give a Talk at Brookhaven Lab on 'Space Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron Collider, October 19
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.
Scientists Detect Unusual ‘Quasiparticles’ in Tri-Layer Graphene
September 25, 2011
Findings reveal new possibilities for manipulating charge and spin in electronic devices.
American Physical Society Honors Brookhaven National Laboratory
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.
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Historic Site
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.
Nanoimprinting Controls Orientation of Organic Solar Polymers
September 12, 2011
Restructuring organic polymers could lead to more efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity.
Surprise Difference in Neutrino and Antineutrino Mass Lessening with New Measurements from a Fermilab Experiment
August 26, 2011
A new result at the MINOS experiment brings neutrino and antineutrino masses more closely in sync.
Promoting Diversity ― on the Atomic Level
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.
LHC Experiments Eliminate More Higgs Hiding Spots
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.
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Begins Taking Data
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.
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Begins Taking Data
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.
Three’s a Charm!
August 08, 2011
Physicist Lisa Whitehead collaborates on three experiments.
In Memoriam: Michael Marx
August 04, 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.
Brookhaven Lab Awards $33 Million Contract for Laboratory and Office Renovations
August 01, 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.
Quest for understanding perfect liquid continues
July 28, 2011
Special issue of New Journal of Physics focuses on links between heavy ions, string theory, and cold atoms.
Link Between Competing Phases in Cuprates Leads to New Theory
July 21, 2011
Discovery in parent of one high-temperature superconductor may lead to predictive control.
BNL Honors Six Winners of the 2011 Science & Technology Award
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.
Fermilab Experiment Weighs in on Neutrino Mystery
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.
LHC Achieves 2011 Data Milestone
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.
Indications of a New Type of Neutrino Oscillation at the T2K Experiment
June 14, 2011
Brookhaven researchers built key magnets for an experiment in Japan that has found a new type of neutrino oscillation.
Ultrathin Copper-Oxide Layers Behave Like Quantum Spin Liquid
June 10, 2011
Surprising discovery may offer clues to emergence of high-temperature superconductivity.
CERN Experiment Traps Antimatter Atoms for 1,000 Seconds
June 06, 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.
Brookhaven Lab Scientist Receives DOE Early Career Research Program Award
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.
Media Advisory: RHIC and LHC Findings Take Center Stage at Quark Matter 2011
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.
LHC Experiments Present New Results at Quark Matter 2011 Conference
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.
Brookhaven Lab Wins PR Awards for Physics Outreach Campaign
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).
In Memoriam: Maurice Goldhaber, Former Brookhaven National Laboratory Director
May 13, 2011
Maurice Goldhaber, a prominent physicist and a former director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, died on May 11 after a short illness.
Yannis Semertzidis Mentors Award-Winning Students
May 05, 2011
Three Long Island high school students credit Brookhaven Lab's Yannis Semertzidis for their academic success in science.
These Little Lights of Mine
May 01, 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.
RHIC Physicists Nab New Record for Heaviest Antimatter
April 24, 2011
Newly discovered antihelium-4 could be heaviest stable antinucleus detectable for decades to come.
Giant Proximity Effect Enhances High-Temperature Superconductivity
April 12, 2011
Sandwiched superconductors engineered to function at higher temperatures could be used in new ultra-fast superconducting electronics.
Antimatter-catching, BNL-built Magnet Featured in CERN Courier
April 07, 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.
Expanding the Degrees of Surface Freezing
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.
Brookhaven Lab to Host Particle Accelerator Conference in NYC
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).
Tracking the Moves of Electrons
March 24, 2011
Improved x-ray techniques give scientists inside look at electron dynamics in superconductors, other advanced materials.
Sharpening Images of High-Temperature Superconductors
March 23, 2011
New exploration techniques could pave the way to room-temperature superconductivity, everyday applications
Nanoscale Assembly Using DNA ‘Glue’
March 22, 2011
Leveraging specificity of life’s genetic-code molecule for rational bottom-up design
The Hottest Liquid on the Planet
March 21, 2011
Probing the properties of a superhot, ‘perfect’ liquid, quark-gluon plasma
Finding the Right Superconducting ‘Flavor’
March 21, 2011
Combining theory and experiments, scientists are saving time and money by modeling the properties of select superconductors prior to fabrication.
Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Prospects and Challenges
March 20, 2011
A call to action to understand the ‘quantum entanglement’ behind high-temperature superconductivity
RHIC Physicist Christine Aidala Featured on DOE Blog
March 07, 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.
RHIC “White Papers” Top 1,000-Citation Mark
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.
Unique New Probe of Proton Spin Structure at RHIC
February 15, 2011
Direct measurements allow detailed look at how quarks of different flavors contribute to spin.
Media Advisory: The Heaviest Known Antimatter
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.
Fleeting Fluctuations in Superconductivity Disappear Close to Transition Temperature
February 13, 2011
Measurements indicate loss of coherence among electron pairs; may help explain mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity
Glass Implosion Tests Help Design Stronger Neutrino Detectors
February 08, 2011
Brookhaven researchers are using a refurbished Navy facility to test the limits of photomultiplier tubes for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment.
DOE Blog Features BNL Physicist Antonio Checco
February 07, 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.
Brookhaven Lab Wins Inaugural Gordon Battelle Prizes for Scientific Discovery and Technology Impact
February 01, 2011
BNL has won three of 10 prizes given for the first time by Battelle for scientific advances and technology innovations.
Battelle CEO Announces Winners of Inaugural Gordon Battelle Prize
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.
Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
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.
Brookhaven Joins Quantum Diaries
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.
Three Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows
January 11, 2011
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded three scientists from BNL the distinction of Fellow.
Astronomers Release the Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made
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.
Three Brookhaven Lab Physicists Named American Physical Society Fellows
January 10, 2011
Three scientists at BNL have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society, the world’s second largest organization of physicists.
Science Café Talks on Large Hadron Collider, Jan. 30
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.
Brookhaven-Built Magnet Will Catch Subatomic Debris at FRIB
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.
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Laurence Littenberg Wins the 2011 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize
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.
Brookhaven Lab Ranked No. 1 for Hadron Collider Research
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.
Brookhaven Scientist Peter Johnson Shares American Physical Society Oliver E. Buckley Prize
December 02, 2010
Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist Peter Johnson is one of three recipients of the 2011 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.
LHC Experiments Bring New Insight into Primordial Universe
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.
Antimatter Atoms Successfully Stored for the First Time
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.
CERN Completes Transition to Lead-ion Running at the LHC
November 08, 2010
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has collided its first beams of lead, signaling the start of the heavy ion physics program.
LHC Data Abundance Puts Brookhaven Computing to the Test
November 05, 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.
Large Hadron Collider Pauses Protons; Looks Ahead to Lead
November 04, 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.
George Redlinger and the Search for SUSY
November 01, 2010
BNL physicist George Redlinger describes the “Holy Grail of modern physics”
Illuminating Cosmology’s Dark Questions with Erin Sheldon
October 06, 2010
Cosmologist Erin Sheldon was the first hire for the BNL group that will ultimately interpret data from the proposed Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
Alda, Greene Help Celebrate Opening of SBU’s Center for Communicating Science
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.
LHC experiment observes a potentially new and interesting effect
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.
Brookhaven Lab Helps Fund 1st African School of Physics
September 16, 2010
The first African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications brought together 65 students from around the world to learn the latest in particle physics experiments, accelerators, and technology.
Logbook: Strong Focusing
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.
John Axe Named 2010 NSSA Fellow
August 11, 2010
BNL retiree John Axe has been named a Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America.
First African School of Physics brings cutting-edge physics and technology to sub-Saharan Africa
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.
Brookhaven Lab's Robert Palmer Awarded the 2010 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize
July 20, 2010
Robert Palmer, head of Brookhaven Lab’s Advanced Accelerator Group, received the Advanced Accelerator Prize.
Key Advance in Understanding ‘Pseudogap’ Phase in High-T_c Superconductors
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.
RHIC/AGS Users’ Meeting Honors History, Welcomes Future
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.
Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films
June 13, 2010
Thin films patterned with superconducting nanowires and loops with variable resistance could be useful for new electronic devices.
The Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer (BLIP) and Neutrinos bound for the Deep Underground Science Laboratory in South Dakota -- What’s the Connection?
June 08, 2010
Tests of potential target materials at Brookhaven isotope producer will aid major neutrino experiment.
First Images of Heavy Electrons in Action
June 02, 2010
Scientists nab first images of “heavy” electrons, revealing “hidden” characteristics and demonstrating new method for investigating long-standing physics problems
Fermilab Scientists Find Evidence for Significant Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
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.
Media Advisory: Smashing Protons to Smithereens
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).
Physicist Valery A. Rubakov to Speak at Brookhaven Lab on Extra Dimensions in Space, April 27
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.
Physics Begins at the Large Hadron Collider
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).
CERN sets date for first attempt at 7 TeV collisions in the LHC
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.
Meet Oleksandr Grebenyuk
March 15, 2010
Like many scientists, Oleksandr Grebenyuk is on a quest to better understand how the world works.
NYC-Based Science Writers Meet RHIC, LHC
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.
Exotic Antimatter Detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
March 04, 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.
Meigan Aronson Named Department of Defense Security Fellow
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.
'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup
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.
'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC
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.
New Findings on Hot Quark Soup Produced at RHIC
February 09, 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.
RHIC Gets ‘Cool’ for Higher Collision Rates
February 01, 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.
Electronic Liquid Crystal States Discovered in Parent of Iron-Based Superconductor
January 07, 2010
Scientists discover evidence for ‘electronic liquid crystal’ states within the parent compound of one type of iron-based, high-temperature superconductor.
Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Selects First Spokespeople
January 07, 2010
Brookhaven physicist Milind Diwan is one of two scientists selected as spokespeople for neutrino-probing experiment.
Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows
January 06, 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.
Six Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named American Physical Society Fellows
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.
An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders
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.
Brookhaven Hosts ATLAS Jamboree in Anticipation of LHC Second Run
December 03, 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.
LHC Sets New World Record
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.
Observation of Confinement Phenomenon in Condensed Matter
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.
New Results From T2K
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.
Beams are Back in the Large Hadron Collider
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.
Physicist Anna Stasto Honored with DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award and Sloan Research Fellowship
November 04, 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.
Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer
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.
Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies
October 09, 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.
Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature
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.
A Kinoform’s Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing
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.
Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-T_c Superconductors
August 02, 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.
Meet Astrid Morreale
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.
Spotlight on the Gluon
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.
BNLers Honored at Lab Recognition Ceremony
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.
Brookhaven Physicists Win Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments
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.
Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest Computing Grid is Ready for LHC Restart
July 01, 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.
Physicist Nicholas Samios Awarded Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal
June 04, 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.
Student Honored for Outstanding Contributions to Physics
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
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.
2009 RHIC Run Features New Energy Milestone for Exploring Proton Puzzle
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.
Ultracold Gas Mimics Ultrahot Plasma
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.
LHC to Restart in 2009
December 05, 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.
Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears -- in 2-D
December 01, 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.
Electron Pairs Precede High-Temperature Superconductivity
November 05, 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.
World’s biggest computing grid launched
October 03, 2008
The world’s largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind’s biggest data challenge from the earth’s most powerful accelerator.
First Beam for Large Hadron Collider
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.
Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank
September 02, 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.
U.S. Scientists Count Down to LHC Startup
August 07, 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.
RHIC and Its Impact on Nuclear Science
June 06, 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
June 06, 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.
Protons Pair Up with Neutrons
June 03, 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.
Korea University President Visits U.S. National Laboratory
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.
Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response
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.
Where's the glue?
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.
Last Large Piece of ATLAS Detector Lowered Underground
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.
Latest Supercomputer Calculations Support the Six-Quark Theory
February 08, 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.
Racing Ahead at the Speed of Light
February 06, 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.
LSST Receives $30 Million from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates
January 03, 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.
DOE's Office of Science Launches Website for U.S. Role at Large Hadron Collider
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.
Hidden Order Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid
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.
Researchers Produce Firsts with Bursts of Light
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.
Homestake Strikes Gold Again
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.
Unlocking the Secrets of High-temperature Superconductors
March 07, 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.
To the Edge of Melting
February 02, 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.
Researchers Observe Superradiance in a Free Electron Laser
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.
Google Joins Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project
January 08, 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.
One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved
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
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Wins First Polanyi Award
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.
PASER: A Novel Acceleration Scheme Demonstrated at Brookhaven Lab
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.
More Evidence for "Stripes" in High-Temperature Superconductors
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.
Direct Photon Properties Reveal Secrets of Extreme Nuclear States
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.
Seeking Answers to the Puzzle of Proton Spin
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?
Discovery Prospects at the Large Hadron Collider
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.
MINOS Experiment Sheds Light on Mystery of Neutrino Disappearance
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.
New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors
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.
Freezing Magnets With Magnets
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.
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Quasiparticles
March 08, 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.
PHENIX Publishes Three Papers in Single Edition of Physical Review Letters
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.
A "Ferroelectric" Material Reveals Unexpected, Intriguing Behavior
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.
Lab Celebrates New Supercomputer
December 01, 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.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Receives $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award
September 02, 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.
RIKEN BNL Research Center Dedicates New Supercomputer for Physics Research
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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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.
RHIC Scientists Serve Up "Perfect" Liquid
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.
Quasiparticle Behavior in Bose Quantum Liquids
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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.
Increasing Charge Mobility in Single Molecular Organic Crystals
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.
Spintronic Materials Show Their First Move
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.
Answer from 'Dusty Shelf' Aids Quest to See Matter as it Was Just After Big Bang
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.
Floating Films on Liquid Mercury
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.
Copper vs. Copper at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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.
Research on "Holes" May Unearth Causes of Superconductivity
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.
New Physics Law Unifies Several Superconducting Compounds
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.
Unlocking the Secrets of Titanium, a "Key" that Assists Hydrogen Storage
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.
New Precision Measurement of Top Quark Mass
June 09, 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.
Why Calcium Improves a High-Temperature Superconductor
June 07, 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.
Fluid "Stripes" May Be Essential for High-Temperature Superconductivity
June 02, 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.
New Machine Record for Heavy Ion Luminosity at RHIC
May 05, 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.
Studying 3-D Materials in One Dimension
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.
Bright Light Yields Unusual Vibes
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.
Physicists See Golden Needle in a Micro-Cosmic Haystack
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.
Another Twist in the Field of Superconductivity
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.
Scientists Investigate the Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity
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.
RHIC Results Make Headlines at Quark Matter 2004
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.
Scientists at Brookhaven Contribute to the Development of a Better Electron Accelerator
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.
New g-2 Measurement Deviates Further From Standard Model
January 08, 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.
New g-2 Measurement to be Announced at Brookhaven Lab
January 02, 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
Exciting First Results from Deuteron-Gold Collisions at Brookhaven
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.
RHIC Resumes Operation With First Deuteron-Gold Collisions
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.
RHIC Begins Colliding High-Energy Polarized Protons
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?
RHIC Resumes Operation With First Full-Energy Collisions
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.
First Results From Brookhaven Lab's New Collider
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.
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Begins Smashing Atoms
June 13, 2000
Scientists at Brookhaven Lab have begun detecting head-on collisions between gold nuclei in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world's newest and biggest particle accelerator for studies in nuclear physics.
Massive Physics Apparatus Arrives at Brookhaven Lab
November 06, 1997
A six-ton, $10-million piece of scientific equipment arrived at Brookhaven Lab today, ready to take its place in the atom smasher now under construction.

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