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Meet Claire Lee: Particle Physicist and Non-Traditional Science Communicator

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Particle physicist Claire Lee is no stranger to the spotlight. Lee's performance background and comfort on stage are certainly advantages when it comes to communicating science in front of large audiences. She's given astronomy lectures, sure, but she's also performed stand-up comedy routines with fellow researchers. Lee said she's learned to use her acting, public speaking, and communication skills to convey her excitement for scientific research.

Extracting Signals of Elusive Particles from Giant Chambers Filled with Liquefied Argon

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

In two new papers, the MicroBooNE collaboration describes how they use this detector to pick up the telltale signs of neutrinos, subtle subatomic particles that scientists believe play a key role in the evolution of our universe. The papers include details of the signal processing algorithms that are critical to accurately reconstruct neutrinos' subtle interactions with atoms in the detector.

2018 RHIC & AGS annual users' meeting: 'Illuminating the QCD landscape'

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists and others with a stake in the research taking place at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) gathered at Brookhaven Lab June 12-15, for their annual users' meeting to catch up on the latest research results and engage in conversations about the exciting plans that lie ahead.

Tripling the energy storage of lithium-ion batteries

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have synthesized a new cathode material from iron fluoride that surpasses the capacity limits of traditional lithium-ion batteries.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Army Research Laboratory, DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Vasilis Fthenakis receives IEEE's William R. Cherry Award

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Vasilis Fthenakis, a Senior Scientist Emeritus at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Founder and Director of the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, will receive the 2018 William R. Cherry Award from the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The perfect couple: Higgs and top quark spotted together

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Today two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced a discovery that finally links the two heaviest known particles: the top quark and the Higgs boson. The CMS and ATLAS experiments have seen simultaneous production of both particles during a rare subatomic process. This is the first-time scientists have measured the Higgs boson's direct interaction with top quarks.

From face recognition to phase recognition

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists use approach analogous to facial-recognition technology to track atomic-scale rearrangements relevant to phase changes, catalytic reactions, and more.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Brookhaven's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, DOE/US Department of Energy

Nuclear scientists calculate value of key property that drives neutron decay

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Supercomputer simulations of neutrons' inner turmoil and a new method that filters out 'noise' yield the highest-ever precision calculation of nucleon axial coupling, a property crucial to predicting neutron lifetime.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, RIKEN laboratory in Japan, National Science Foundation

Understanding light-induced electrical current in atomically thin nanomaterials

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists demonstrated that scanning photocurrent microscopy -- an imaging capability just added to Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials -- could provide the optoelectronic information needed to improve the performance of devices for power generation, communications, data storage, and lighting

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New technique reveals details of forest fire recovery

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Do you know someone who's so caught up in the details of a problem that they 'can't see the forest for the trees'? Scientists seeking to understand how forests recover from wildfires sometimes have the opposite problem.

Journal: Remote Sensing of Environment

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