Like the other two facilities, RHIC comes highly recommended by nuclear physics advisory groups. A report by the National Research Council identified the completed RHIC upgrade, and an ongoing upgrade at Jefferson Lab, as strategic investments whose exploitation "should be an essential component of the U. Tribble's subcommittee will meet in Maryland over four days in early September, during which time representatives of the various facilities will have an opportunity to lobby for their projects.
Each of the labs has a unique case to make: A long-range plan drafted by NSAC, for instance, highlighted the Jefferson Lab upgrade as the top priority for U. That upgrade, which will double the energy of the electron beams in the lab's particle accelerator, is roughly two thirds complete, says Robert McKeown, deputy director for science at Jefferson Lab.
And the machine already has seven to 10 years of experiments queued up for when it returns to active service sometime after The Jefferson accelerator explores several questions relating to the structure of the atomic nucleus, including how the fundamental particles of matter, quarks and gluons are bound up inside protons and neutrons. Unlike Brookhaven, which hosts a number of large experiments, Jefferson Lab would essentially cease to exist if its accelerator were defunded.
Michigan State University's planned FRIB pronounced "eff-rib" , earned the second-highest slot in the ranking of nuclear physics priorities. The machine would produce on demand a variety of exotic isotopes —often unstable versions of chemical elements with abnormal numbers of neutrons in the nucleus.
FRIB would investigate the origins of the elements that constitute our physical world, many of which are born in the cores of stars and in supernova explosions, and could quickly churn out isotopes for medical research and the development of advanced imaging technologies. The collisions will occur in a region just nanometers high, which is smaller than a barely visible dot of text.
Previous unexplained measurements have indicated there are some holes in the standard model of particle physics. The result should be 40 to 50 times the number of collisions produced by similar accelerators, including the Japan accelerator before it was upgraded. The new particles created in the collisions should include some particles that have not been seen naturally in the universe since the first moments of the Big Bang.
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