The USA has begun to put the effort into building another particle accelerator at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island. The new facility will stand as a pillar of the Electron-Ion Collider project, an initiative to learn the secrets of electrons. Assorted officials from New York and the Department of Energy commemorated the news, including Senator Chuck Schumer.
The Electron-Ion Collider project will attempt to smash electrons and protons together in order to produce images displaying their internal structure. Officials at BNL describe it as a “CT Scanner for atoms,” to get a good view of the building blocks of these phenomena: Gluons and Quarks. Specifically, that the force that binds an atomic nucleus and the electrons that surround it, over the years has been seen as one of the strongest in nature.
DOE will solely be funding for the project, which expects t hand over anything up to $2.6 billion, with New York State including an additional $100 million. That will pay for a 2.4 -mile long ring to be built parallel to the collider that’s already in place at Brookhaven. It’s hoped that investment will pay off if researchers can understand the nature of how gluons bind these structures together.
For all the attention that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gets, you may be pardoned if you’re not aware that Brookhaven already hosts one of its own. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is designed to fire heavy ions at each other in the hope of causing a collision that can be studied.
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