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Generations of supercomputers pin down primordial plasma

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Lab's Lattice Gauge Theory Group hunts for equations to describe the early universe and the forces binding matter together. Their search spans generations of supercomputers and parallels studies of the primordial plasma discovered and explored at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

Tracking the transition of early-universe quark soup to matter-as-we-know-it

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

By smashing together ordinary atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, scientists recreate the primordial soup of the early universe thousands of times per second. Using sophisticated detectors to track what happens as exotic particles emerge from the collision zone and 'freeze out' into more familiar forms of matter, they are turning up interesting details about how the transition takes place.

Scientists track 3-D nanoscale changes in rechargeable battery material during operation

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Brookhaven Lab have made the first 3-D observations of how the structure of a lithium-ion battery anode evolves at the nanoscale in a real battery cell as it discharges and recharges. The details of this research could point to new ways to engineer battery materials to increase the capacity and lifetime of rechargeable batteries.

Funder: DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program

Emil Bozin awarded 2014 Science Prize from Neutron Scattering Society of America

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Neutron Scattering Society of America has named Emil Bozin, a condensed matter physicist at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, the recipient of their 2014 Science Prize. The NSSA award specifically recognized Bozin's discovery of 'broken symmetry local structures in exotic electronic materials, his elaboration of their nature and their importance to the material properties, in particular in PbTe, iridates, manganites, and cuprates.'

Particle beam cancer therapy: The promise and challenges

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Advances in accelerators built for fundamental physics research have inspired improved cancer treatment facilities. But will one of the most promising -- a carbon ion treatment facility -- be built in the US? Participants at a symposium organized by Brookhaven Lab for the 2014 AAAS meeting explored the science and surrounding issues.

Brookhaven Lab's Lev Neymotin helps secure Russia's nuclear material

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

For the past 15 years, Neymotin has traveled between Russia and the US on a mission to help Russian officials securely maintain nuclear materials remaining from the Cold War arms race.

Brookhaven Lab's Jian Wang to help understand rainforest atmosphere dynamics

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

US Department of Energy researchers are joining scientific collaborators from the US, Brazil, and Germany to launch a two-year field study in the Amazon Basin. Data obtained during the Green Ocean Amazon (or GOAmazon) field campaign will enable scientists to study the intricacies of the natural state of the Amazon rainforest atmosphere and land systems and how these may be perturbed by human influences such as pollution and deforestation.

Roots to shoots: Hormone transport in plants deciphered

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from a research team led by biochemist Chang-Jun Liu at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory identifies the protein essential for relocating cytokinins from roots to shoots.

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

Mega-bucks from Russia seed development of 'big data' tools

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science awarded a $3.4 million 'mega-grant' to Alexei Klimentov, Physics Applications Software Group Leader at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, to develop new 'big data' computing tools for the advancement of science. The project builds on the success of a workload and data management system built by Klimentov and collaborators to process huge volumes of data from the ATLAS experiment at Europe's Large Hadron Collider.

Funder: Russian Ministry of Education and Science, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Superconductivity in orbit: Scientists find new path to loss-free electricity

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have combined atoms with multiple orbitals and precisely pinned down their electron distributions. Using advanced electron diffraction techniques, the scientists discovered that orbital fluctuations in iron-based compounds induce strongly coupled polarizations that can enhance electron pairing -- the essential mechanism behind superconductivity.

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

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