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2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory

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From creating the tiniest drops of primordial particle soup to devising new ways to improve batteries, catalysts, superconductors, and more, scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory pushed the boundaries of discovery in 2015. Here, in no particular order, are our picks for the top 10 advances of the year.

Producing cold electron beams to increase collision rates at the relativistic heavy ion collider

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Accelerated ion beams heat up. This causes a problem for physicists trying to get the particles to collide. So physicists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a nuclear physics research facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory, are exploring ways to cool the beams and keep their particles tightly packed.

New clues for battling botulism

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered new details about how 'cloaking' proteins protect the toxin that causes botulism, a fatal disease caused most commonly by consuming improperly canned foods. That knowledge and the cloaking proteins themselves might now be turned against the toxin -- the deadliest known to humankind.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

RHIC particle smashups find that shape matters

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Peering into the seething soup of primordial matter created in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- an 'atom smasher' at Brookhaven National Laboratory -- scientists have come to a new understanding of how particles are produced in these collisions. This understanding represents a paradigm shift consistent with the presence of a saturated state of gluons, super-dense fields of the glue-like particles that bind the building blocks of ordinary matter.

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

Postdoc Alesha Harris: Tackling chemistry from nanoparticles to neutrinos

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Alesha Harris has three degrees in chemistry and has taught the subject in her home state of Texas. Although her graduate work was in nanoparticles -- materials just a billionth of a meter in size -- she joined Brookhaven National Laboratory as an Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate-Transformation (AGEP-T) postdoc working with Minfang Yeh, who leads the neutrino and nuclear chemistry group. Before becoming acquainted with Brookhaven Lab and Yeh's work, Harris had never heard of the mysterious neutrinos, invisible subatomic particles.

Supercomputing the strange difference between matter and antimatter

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of physicists including theorists from the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has published the first calculation of direct 'CP' symmetry violation -- how the behavior of subatomic particles (in this case, the decay of kaons) differs when matter is swapped out for antimatter.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: Science and Technology Facilities Council, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, RIKEN

Brookhaven Lab wins two R&D 100 awards

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Grant and Award Announcement

Two technologies developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory have received 2015 R&D 100 awards, which honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year as determined by a panel selected by R&D Magazine.

Quantum spin could create unstoppable, one-dimensional electron waves

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Ludwig Maximilian University have proposed a solution to the subatomic stoppage of electron flow due to defects in materials: a novel way to create a more robust electron wave by binding together the electron's direction of movement and its spin.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Brookhaven Lab presents cutting-edge computing capabilities at SC15

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High-performance data analysis is the underpinning of much of the science done at US Department of Energy National Laboratories, and it will be on display at the SC15 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Austin, Texas, Nov. 15-20. Brookhaven National Laboratory will join the 16 other DOE Labs to showcase the expertise and experimental facilities it has built in an exhibition that plays on the conference theme, 'HPC Transforms.'

Physicists measure force that makes antimatter stick together

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first time measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons. Like the force that holds ordinary protons together within the nuclei of atoms, the force between antiprotons is attractive and strong. The experiments were conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and will publish in Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

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