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These stunning images capture the collisions of cosmic rays as they stream through the STAR detector at
#RHIC
.
See more:
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We are excited to welcome theoretical physicist JoAnne Hewett as the next director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Do you know what's inside a proton?
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For the first time, scientists
@CERN
have observed Higgs bosons decaying into bottom quarks—a major discovery.
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20 years in the making:
Results from the g-2 experiment at
@Fermilab
support findings from Brookhaven’s earlier experiment, pointing towards new physics.
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Meet Vanessa Sanders, the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in radiochemistry.
At Brookhaven, Sanders makes isotopes to detect and treat diseases.
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An international team of physicists is using supercomputers to understand the balance between matter and antimatter in the universe.
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Dubbed "The Seahorse," this ultra high-resolution atomic force microscopy image of graphene nano ribbons was captured at
#CFNano
.
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We're one of several
#NationalLabs
supporting
@ENERGY
's initiative to build a national quantum Internet.
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Scientists at Brookhaven are making major contributions to the Large Hadron Collider upgrade at
@CERN
and
@Fermilab
.
#HiLumiLHC
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Brookhaven Lab will be home to the world’s first polarized
#EIC
, a machine that will unlock the secrets of the strongest force in nature.
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With the ceremonial ribbon cut, the
#ElectronIonCollider
project is officially launched!
Thank you to everyone who visited us today and helped champion this one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility for the Nation.
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We’re proud to present the next Leona Woods Lectureship Award for outstanding female, under-represented minority, and LGBTQ physicists to
@CERN
's Dorota Grabowska, who studies the mathematical basis of particle physics.
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This is the first-ever experimental observation of entanglement between dissimilar particles.
#RHIC
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Our scientists have published the first atomic-level model of the SARS-CoV-2 “envelope” protein hijacking a human cell-junction protein.
The model helps explain how
#COVID19
could cause extensive lung damage and infect other organs.
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ICYMI: leaders from Brookhaven Lab and
@JLab_News
were joined by elected officials to commemorate the start of the
#ElectronIonCollider
project.
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.
@doescience
has selected Brookhaven Lab to lead one of five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers!
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Happy Birthday
@Fermilab
! Congratulations on 50 years of discovery and innovation!
#Fermilabs50th
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#OnThisDay
20 years ago, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider recorded its first heavy-ion collisions!
#RHIC
#RHIC20
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#NSLSII
's PDF beamline reveals the atomic structures of materials used in everyday devices like batteries and computer chips.
When illuminated by x-rays, they make beautiful patterns characteristic of how atoms are assembled.
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ICYMI: mathematical models reveal new details of a quantum phenomenon.
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BREAKING: the long-awaited, landmark result from
@Fermilab
’s Muon g-2 experiment shows muons deviating from Standard Model calculations.
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As the leader of C2QA, we're seeking to reach quantum advantage.
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The
@ATLASexperiment
has observed photon collisions producing pairs of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force.
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We're celebrating our 70th anniversary as a national lab and the 100 years our site has served the nation!
#BNL70
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Scientists at Brookhaven and
@stonybrooku
have developed an operational quantum network covering 87 miles.
This marks the longest successful quantum communication experiment in the US.
#BrookhavenCS
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One of our top 10 discoveries of 2018 was a single-atom catalyst that converts carbon dioxide into usable energy!
#2018inReview
#NSLSII
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Our first particle accelerator, the Cosmotron, was the world's highest energy proton accelerator of its day.
#Brookhaven75
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#OnThisDay
in 1954, Brookhaven’s C.N. Yang and
@Columbia
’s R.L. Mills submit the Yang-Mills Theory, the basis of quantum chromodynamics.
#Brookhaven75
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Today, scientists around the world are celebrating something really spooky: Dark Matter. 😱 🎃 🌌
@DarkMatterDay
#HappyHalloween
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Equipped with a 3.2 gigapixel sensor array built by Brookhaven, the
@VRubinObs
Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera will capture the universe like never before.
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Meet particle physicist Claire Lee, who uses her acting skills to teach physics in creative new ways 👩🏼🔬
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Meet Brookhaven physicist Sally Dawson, who researches the properties of the Higgs Boson.
#WomenInScience
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Meet the women of Brookhaven: Etsuko Fujita is the leader of our artificial photosynthesis group. She develops systems that use solar energy to create renewable fuels. 👩🔬
#WomensHistoryMonth
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This year at
#RHIC
, physicists are investigating how quark-gluon plasma transitioned into the protons and neutrons that make up most of our world.
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Particle collisions offer new way to gain insight into the properties of neutron stars.
#RHIC
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The
#ElectronIonCollider
"has the potential to unlock some of the world's deepest scientific secrets — and create thousands of jobs."
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We've finished constructing the biggest CCD array that has ever been built—the 3.2 gigapixel sensor array for
@LSST
! 🔭 🌌
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Meet Haiyan Gao, our new Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics.
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Salt has been used for millennia to preserve food. Now, we want to use it to preserve the environment.
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Today our new director, JoAnne Hewett, will begin leading the Laboratory.
Welcome, JoAnne! We are excited to see you and learn what the future holds.
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For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing to reconstruct data from particle collisions!
@NERSC
@BerkeleyLab
@ESnet
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The
#LSSTCamera
for
@VRubinObs
is nearing completion at
@SLAClab
!
We developed its 3.2 gigapixel "digital film," the biggest charge-coupled device (CCD) array that has ever been built.
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2020 marks five years of “user” operations at
#NSLSII
!
All year, we’ll be celebrating this milestone by highlighting each of NSLS-II’s world-class beamlines. Stay tuned!
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Weighing 1,200 tons and as large as a house, the STAR detector tracks thousands of particles produced by collisions at
#RHIC
.
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The
#ElectronIonCollider
will peer into protons and neutrons to reveal how those particles’ internal building blocks—and the glue-like force that holds them together—form the structure of nearly all visible matter in the universe.
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How will a nationwide quantum Internet impact the financial sector?
Join us for a virtual roundtable with
@P33Chicago
and
@ScienceUnderSec
this Thursday.
Learn more and register:
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Over nearly nine years, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment captured an unprecedented five and a half million neutrino interactions.
Now, physicists have reported the first result from the experiment’s full dataset.
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More than 1,000 members of our community gathered to form this “big 70” and celebrate Brookhaven's 70th anniversary
#BNL70
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Scientists at Brookhaven and
@BerkeleyLab
have captured, in real time, how lithium ions move through a fast-charging battery electrode material.
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.
@ENERGY
has granted CD-1 approval for the
#ElectronIonCollider
, marking the start of the project's execution phase.
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Physicists at
#RHIC
are tracking the emergence of charm quarks in particle collisions to determine how quarks combine to form the building blocks of matter.
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The
@ATLASexperiment
at
@CERN
has precisely measured the mass of the W boson—one of the most difficult measurements in particle physics.
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Meet Jennifer Rittenhouse West, a
@BerkeleyLab
theoretical particle physicist who studies simulated collision debris from the
#ElectronIonCollider
.
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Three high schools students are working alongside computational scientists in
@BrookhavenLabCS
to study
#COVID19
.
They're exploring inhibitor drugs to disrupt viral proteins that help infectious particles escape from cells.
#BrookhavenSciEd
#STEMrising
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In collaboration with
@stonybrooku
, we've conducted the longest successful quantum communication link experiment in the United States.
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Before today's synchrotron particle accelerators existed, there were cyclotron particle accelerators.
Here, a Brookhaven scientist inspects a cyclotron magnet in 1949.
#Brookhaven75
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For the first time, scientists have entangled atoms for use as networked quantum sensors, specifically, atomic clocks and accelerometers.
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In the presence of light, this catalyst breaks down CO₂ into building blocks for fuel.
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Scientists plot new points on the “map” of superconductivity.
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We accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light! High-speed electrons produce photons at
#NSLSII
and cool the particle beams at
#RHIC
.
#TeamElectron
#SubatomicSmackdown
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#OnThisDay
in 1993, nuclear physicist Edward Teller came to Brookhaven to discuss the importance of
#RHIC
.
Teller was one of the first to propose the concept of colliding heavy nuclei at nearly the speed of light to create a nuclear plasma state.
#RHIC20
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Researchers at Brookhaven and
@stonybrooku
used this flower-shaped nanostructure to increase battery capacity.
#CFNano
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As the heart of
@VRubinObs
, this 3,200-megapixel camera will help researchers observe our universe in unprecedented detail. 🌌 📷 🔭
@SLAClab
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2020 has been challenging, but it's also been a banner year for science.
From launching the Electron-Ion Collider project to researching COVID-19, browse some of Brookhaven's scientific achievements in our 2020 news archive:
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For more than 70 years, we've delivered discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure America’s future.
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Combined results from the g-2 experiment at
@Fermilab
and Brookhaven show strong evidence that our theoretical model of the subatomic world is incomplete.
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Brookhaven's Berndt Mueller has been awarded by
@APSphysics
for his research on quark-gluon plasma, the matter that filled the universe a mere fraction of a second after its birth.
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You're looking at an advanced superconducting magnet for the upcoming
#ElectronIonCollider
. It's called a high gradient shielded quadrupole magnet.
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Before
@Fermilab
's landmark result from the g-2 experiment, Brookhaven's earlier version of the experiment detected signs of new physics 20 years ago.
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We're bringing world-leading experts together to resolve performance issues with today’s quantum computers by simultaneously designing software and hardware.
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#NSLSII
scientist Andi Barbour will be a panelist in our first virtual Q&A for
#BNLSummerSundays
.
Barbour uses the CSX beamline at NSLS-II to study quantum materials.
Tweet us your questions for Barbour!
Event details:
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From the archives: Brookhaven Lab Scientist Emeritus Joanna Fowler conducting chemistry research in 1985.
#Brookhaven75
Learn more about Fowler's remarkable career:
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New results from
#RHIC
have raised questions about how particles are generated from proton collisions.
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Physicists studying ghost-like particles called neutrinos at the
@Microboone
experiment have reported a first-of-its-kind measurement.
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The most powerful magnetic fields in the universe induce a current that deflects charged particles as they emerge from subatomic smashups at
#RHIC
.
@PhysRevX
#QGP
#NuclearPhysics
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Scientists used the world's fastest supercomputers to help explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe.
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Gluons, the particles that bind quarks, may also bind to one another.
Scientists at
#RHIC
are searching for evidence of these globs of pure "glue."
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Scientists have discovered a rare type of material that holds great promise for next-generation electronics.
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Inside these storage tanks is liquid helium cooled to -452°F. That's nearly absolute zero (-459°F), the coldest anything can be.
It's used to cool superconducting magnets at
#RHIC
. In all, RHIC contains 25 tons of helium that's recovered and stored in a closed-loop system.
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Meet Jennifer Carpena-Núñez, a chemical physicist
@AFResearchLab
who synthesizes carbon nanotubes at our nanocenter.
#WomenInSTEM
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Our Accelerator Test Facility offers the unique combination of a high-brightness electron beam and a high-power picosecond CO2 laser for researchers to explore new ideas for advanced particle accelerators.
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New evidence suggests quark-gluon plasma can be formed even in low energy, small-scale particle collisions
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These 3-D nanostructures can conduct electricity without resistance and may provide a platform for fabricating quantum computing and sensing devices.
#CFNano
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Q: What’s invisible, but makes up about 85% of the universe’s mass? A: Dark matter.
#darkmatterday
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More than 1,100 members of the Lab community gathered in Brookhaven Square today to watch the solar
#eclipse
with our special guest,
@SecGranholm
.
It was a special afternoon here in Upton, NY, where we experienced 90.4% totality!
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