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Relativistic heavy ion collider smashes record for polarized proton luminosity

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Thanks to accelerator advances, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a powerful nuclear physics research facility at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, just shattered its own record for producing polarized proton collisions at 200-giga-electron-volt collision energy. The improvement will generate high volumes of data rapidly, giving physicists time to achieve several high-priority science goals in a single run at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Long-sought magnetic mechanism observed in exotic hybrid materials

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists have measured the subatomic intricacies of an exotic phenomenon first predicted more than 60 years ago. This so-called van Vleck magnetism is the key to harnessing the quantum quirks of topological insulators -- hybrid materials that are both conducting and insulating -- and could lead to unprecedented electronics.

Bacteria tracked feeding nitrogen to nutrient-starved plants

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

An international team of researchers, including three from Brookhaven National Laboratory, tracked nitrogen as soil bacteria pulled it from the air and released it as plant-friendly ammonium. This eco-friendly process -- called biological nitrogen fixation -- substantially promoted growth in certain grass crops.

Major new research project to study how tropical forests worldwide respond to climate change

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics will couple field research with the development of a new ecosystem model that represents how tropical forests interact with Earth's climate in much greater ecological detail than ever before.

A tale of 2 colliders, 1 thesis, 2 awards -- and a physics mystery

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Dennis Perepelitsa, a physicist exploring the mysteries of nuclear physics at RHIC and the LHC, has the distinction of being the first person to earn outstanding Ph.D. thesis awards from both research communities. His Ph.D. work, based on complementary data collected at the PHENIX and ATLAS detectors, showcased intriguing findings and an ongoing mystery that is guiding part of the research programs at both machines now.

Nanostructure complex materials modeling

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven physicist Simon Billinge illustrates how advances in computing and applied mathematics can improve the predictive value of models used to design new materials.

Granular data processing on HPCs using an event service

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Lab/ATLAS physicist Torre Wenaus describes an effort to trickle small 'grains' of data generated by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe into small pockets of unused supercomputing time, sandwiched between big jobs on high-performance supercomputers.

First scientific publication from data collected at NSLS-II

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Just weeks after NSLS-II achieved first light, a team of scientists at the X-Ray Powder Diffraction beamline tested a setup that yielded data on thermoelectric materials and resulted in science published in Applied Physics Letters - Materials.

Journal: Applied Physics Letters
Funder: Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences

A new X-ray microscope for nanoscale imaging

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

A new microscope at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at NSLS-II will ultimately deliver nanoscale resolution imaging for everything from proteins to fuel cell catalysts.

Energy Secretary Moniz dedicates the world's brightest Synchrotron Light Source

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz today dedicated the world's most advanced light source, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The NSLS-II is a $912-million DOE Office of Science User Facility that produces extremely bright beams of x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light used to examine a wide range of materials, including superconductors and catalysts, geological samples, and biological proteins to accelerate advances in energy, environmental science, and medicine.

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