LHC Photos

	D2800907 Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory taken in August 2007. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (top, center) is 2.4 miles in circumference, and dominates Brookhaven's 5,265-acre campus.
	D2800907 The Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory photographed at dusk
	D0230708 Christine Aidala, a member of RHIC's PHENIX experiment, is seen here inside the PHENIX detector itself.
	D1950607 Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory operate one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, named New York Blue and located at Brookhaven Lab, is the world's fastest supercomputer for general users and is expected to rank among the top ten fastest computers in the world.
	D2160505 Known as QCDOC machines, for quantum chromodynamics (QCD) on a chip, these supercomputers perform the complex calculations of the theory that describes the interactions of quarks and gluons and the force that holds atomic nuclei together.
	D0420407 Nanotechnology: BNL researchers Eli and Peter Sutter have shown that tiny droplets of liquid metal freeze much differently than their larger counterparts. This study, focused on droplets just a billionth of a trillionth of a liter in size.
	D1951205 The muon g-2 storage ring. This ring, in concert with a beam supplied by the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, was used to make the first precise measurement of how negatively charged muons "wobble" in the magnetic field, information which can be used to confirm the Standard Model of particle physics.
	D5720903 NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) researcher Debasish Roy places a sample into the NSRL beam line.
	D0170204 Staff from the Laboratory's Superconducting Magnet Division examine a "snake" magnet used at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. Snake magnets are used to flip the spin of the protons as they travel around an accelerator to eliminate depolarization, called “resonances,” which occur during acceleration.
	Deuteron-Gold Collisions (No negative number) An end view of collision between deuterons and gold ions captured by the STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
	Magnetic Field (No negative number) Image of the strength of the magnetic field produced by a superconducting quadrupole magnet built by the BNL Superconducting Magnet Division for the HERA electron-proton collider at the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. It was built using technology developed at BNL for manufacturing some of the specialized magnets for the RHIC facility.
	D0330299 Brookhaven's main gate sign. The Laboratory is operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, a not-for-profit research management company, under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.
	CN8-276-00 RHIC's "siberian snake" magnets have a corkscrew-like design, which causes the direction of the magnetic field to spiral along the direction of the beam. There are two snakes in each of RHIC’s two 2.4-mile-circumference rings, located at opposite sides of each ring. As the beam moves through the snakes, the magnetic field flips the polarization allowing scientists to maintain a stable beam.
	CN7-5-98 The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) facility. Brookhaven is a world leader in brain research, including how drugs, mental illness, nicotine, alcohol and even normal aging affect the brain.
	D2290703 PHENIX is one of the four large detectors that helps physicists analyze the particle collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). PHENIX weighs 4,000 tons and has a dozen detector subsystems. Three large steel magnets produce high magnetic fields to bend charged particles along curved paths.
	CN3-146-98 PHENIX is one of the four large detectors that helps physicists analyze the particle collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). PHENIX weighs 4,000 tons and has a dozen detector subsystems. Three large steel magnets produce high magnetic fields to bend charged particles along curved paths.
	CN8-221-98 The STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). As big as a house, STAR searches for signatures of the form of matter that RHIC aims to create: the quark-gluon plasma.
	STAR Detector (No negative number) End view of a collision of two 30-billion electron-volt gold beams in the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The beams travel in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light before colliding.
	CN3-181-96 Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source is a major user facility at the Lab, drawing close to 2,500 visiting researchers each year from industry, universities and other laboratories. They use the Light Source's intense beams of x-rays and ultraviolet light to carry out a wide range of studies in diverse scientific fields.
	CN9-52-96 A view of the superconducting magnets at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. As gold particles zip along the collider's 2.4 mile long tunnel at nearly the speed of light, 1,740 of these magnets guide and focus the particle beams.
	CN4-548-88 Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) attracts about 2,500 scientists each year from academia, industry and other labs to use the facility's powerful x-rays, ultraviolet light and infrared light.
	CN10-45-00 The Brookhaven-developed fan-atomized oil burner offers improved fuel- and air-mixing for better performance.
	Cocaine Abuser Brain Scan A normal brain (top) and a cocaine abuser's 10 and 100 days after taking the drug. Normal metabolic activity, indicated by bright red and yellow, is blunted in the drug abuser.
	'Dancing Triangles' Nanoscale arrangement: Sulfur atoms form "dancing triangles" on copper.
	Nickel Nanoparticle Flux Lines Map showing magnetic flux lines for nickel nanoparticles