Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Startup Time for Ion Collisions Exploring the Phases of Nuclear Matter
January 8, 2019
19th year of operations at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider will continue search for critical point in transition…
Compelling Evidence for Small Drops of Perfect Fluid
December 12, 2018 
PHENIX publishes new particle-flow measurements to support their case that tiny projectiles create specks of quark-gluon plasma. Nuclear…
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins 18th Year of Experiments
March 21, 2018
First smashups with ‘isobar’ ions and low-energy gold-gold collisions will test earlier hints of exciting discoveries as accelerator…
Small Accelerator Promises Big Returns
March 19, 2018
Under construction in the US, the CBETA multi-turn energy-recovery linac will pave the way for accelerators that combine…
Surprising Result Shocks Scientists Studying Spin
January 9, 2018 
Findings on how differently sized nuclei respond to spin offer new insight into mechanisms affecting particle production in…
How to Map the Phases of the Hottest Substance in the Universe
December 11, 2017
Scientists are searching for the critical point of quark-gluon plasma, the substance that formed just after the Big…
Exploring the Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons at the Dawn of the Exascale
October 12, 2017
Jefferson Lab leads development of next-generation software to benefit nuclear physics computation As nuclear physicists delve ever deeper…
Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Force Behind Visible Matter
August 23, 2017
SBU and BNL Launch the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science Science can explain only a small portion…
Successful Test of Small-Scale Accelerator with Big Potential Impacts for Science and Medicine
August 17, 2017
“Fixed-field” accelerator transports multiple particle beams at a wide range of energies through a single beam pipe An…
‘Perfect Liquid’ Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
August 6, 2017
Swirling soup of matter’s fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado,…
Brookhaven Lab’s Scientific Data and Computing Center Reaches 100 Petabytes of Recorded Data
June 30, 2017
Total reflects 17 years of experimental physics data collected by scientists to understand the fundamental nature of matter…
Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow
May 29, 2017
First results from new precision particle detector designed to reveal detailed properties of subatomic “soup” that mimics the…
Low-Energy RHIC Electron Cooling Gets Green Light, Literally
May 11, 2017
New high-power green-light laser will generate beam-cooling electrons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Aligning a sequence…
How did the Proton Get Its Spin?
April 2, 2017
Calculating a proton’s spin used to be an easy college assignment. In fact, Carl Gagliardi remembers answering that…
sPHENIX Gets CD0 for Upgrade to Experiment Tracking the Building Blocks of Matter
January 16, 2017
First step on a path toward a detector with unprecedented capabilities for deciphering how the properties of the…
A View of the Colorful Microcosm Within a Proton
March 31, 2016
Probing the “color” interactions among quarks tests a theoretical concept of nature’s strongest force to pave a way…
Physicists Zoom in on Gluons’ Contribution to Proton Spin
February 17, 2016
Latest data from high-energy proton collisions at RHIC indicate that “wimpy” gluons have a big impact on proton…
Beam-Beam Compensation Scheme Doubles Proton-Proton Collision Rates at RHIC
January 5, 2016
Smashing more protons produces more data for exploring physics questions Accelerator physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
Producing Cold Electron Beams to Increase Collision Rates at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
December 9, 2015 
Engineers and physicists team up on new technology for keeping particle beams tightly packed, with possible applications at…
RHIC Particle Smashups Find that Shape Matters
December 8, 2015
Scientists colliding football- and sphere-shaped ions discover evidence supporting a paradigm shift in the birth of the quark-gluon…
Physicists Measure Force that Makes Antimatter Stick Together
November 5, 2015
First ever measurement of antiproton interactions that make possible the existence of antimatter nuclei Peering at the debris…
Statement on Nuclear Science Advisory Committee 2015 Recommendations for Nuclear Physics Research
October 16, 2015
On October 15, 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Nuclear Science Advisory…
Quark Matter 2015: Scientists Present, Discuss Latest Data from Experiments Smashing Nuclei at the Speed of Light
October 3, 2015
Details of particle smashups at RHIC and the LHC offer insight into the building blocks of matter and…
Tiny Drops of Early Universe ‘Perfect’ Fluid
September 2, 2015
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of…
Scientists See Ripples of a Particle-Separating Wave In Primordial Plasma
June 11, 2015
Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physics and…
Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Brookhaven Lab to Map Melted Matter
May 11, 2015
A 20-ton superconducting magnet traveled from California’s SLAC Lab to New York’s Brookhaven Lab as part of a…
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Smashes Record for Polarized Proton Luminosity at 200 GeV Collision Energy
April 17, 2015
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a powerful particle accelerator for nuclear physics research at the U.S. Department of…
Smashing Polarized Protons to Uncover Spin and Other Secrets
February 12, 2015
If you want to unravel the secrets of proton spin, put a “twist” in your colliding proton beams.…
Infographic: RHIC Cooks Up a Quantum Tempest in a Teacup
November 12, 2014
When particles collide inside Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), they melt at trillion-degree temperatures and form…
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