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Brookhaven Lab names project director for electron-ion collider

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

The US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has named Jim Yeck as Project Director for the Electron-Ion Collider, a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility to be built at the Laboratory over the next decade in partnership with scientists from DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab).

Experimenting with laser wakefield acceleration

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

An intern at Brookhaven Lab experiments with laser wakefield acceleration -- often called the 'tabletop accelerator.' The goal is to use lasers to accelerate particles to greater energies over shorter distances than can be done with traditional accelerators -- and therefore in a much smaller space.

A fresh pair of eyes on an old nuclear physics problem

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

As an intern for the National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Pedro Rodríguez is working to resolve a 70-year-old problem in nuclear physics. He and his mentor are figuring out a way to simplify one of the steps for ensuring nuclear reactors can be modeled correctly.

Electrons break rotational symmetry in exotic low-temp superconductor

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This odd behavior may promote the material's ability upon cooling to perfectly conduct electricity in a way unexplained by standard theories.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Meet the Intern Using Quantum Computing to Study the Early Universe

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Juliette Stecenko, an intern at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is using modern supercomputers and quantum computing platforms to perform astronomy simulations that may help us better understand where we came from.

EIC R&D yields energy-saving accelerator innovations

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

An energy-recovery linear accelerator that scientists explored for accelerating particles in an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) could form the foundation of an energy-saving design for a future high-energy electron-positron collider.

Four years of calculations lead to new insights into muon anomaly

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two decades ago, an experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory pinpointed a mysterious mismatch between established particle physics theory and actual lab measurements. A multi-institutional research team (including Brookhaven, Columbia University, and the universities of Connecticut, Nagoya and Regensburg, RIKEN) have used Argonne National Laboratory's Mira supercomputer to help narrow down the possible explanations for the discrepancy, delivering a newly precise theoretical calculation that refines one piece of this very complex puzzle.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Brookhaven biochemist receives prestigious award for plant lipid research

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jantana Keereetaweep, a biochemistry research associate in the biology department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded the Paul K. Stumpf Award for her research on plant lipids (fats and oils). The award, given every two years, recognizes the contributions of a promising early-career scientist in honor of Stumpf, who was a world leader and pioneer in the study of plant lipid biochemistry.

Water is key in catalytic conversion of methane to methanol

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists reveal new details that explain how a highly selective catalyst converts methane, the main component of natural gas, to methanol, an easy-to-transport liquid fuel and feedstock for making plastics, paints, and other commodity products. The findings could aid the design of even more efficient/selective catalysts to make methane conversion an economically viable and environmentally attractive alternative to venting or flaring 'waste' gas.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Fighting COVID with computing

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Fermilab, Brookhaven, and Open Science Grid dedicate computational power to COVID-19 research.

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