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Note from our Chair: Thomas Roser

First I wish everybody a very happy New Year. Even though the budget situation for the rest of the fiscal year is still very unclear, what is clearis that this coming year will be very busy at C-AD. The cool-down for this year's RHIC run has started with the 45 K wave in preparation for thestart of the 4 K cool down on February 6. Before the start of the RHIC run the electron accelerator of the Coherent electron Cooling experimenthas to be reassembled in IR2. In the same IR the electron gun and a diagnostic line for the Low Energy RHIC electron Cooling project also haveto be installed before the run starts. The gun will be tested with beam during the RHIC run. In the meantime, the medical isotope production atBLIP has already started and is reaching record beam current levels using the beam raster system.

Finally I would like to congratulate Deepak Raparia on his promotion to tenured scientist.

VIEW UPCOMING Conference projections *PROJECTIONS DUE ASAP*

Did You Know?? Events/seminars

Check out who received an employee Service Award this year! Collider-Accelerator Dept. employees who receiveda Service Award.

Check out who received an employee Spotlight Award this year!

Malek Haj Tahar recently presented his public defense for his Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "High Power RingMethods and Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor Application"

January 20 - (Seminar Room, Bldg. 725 |11am) Computational Science CenterSeminar: "Enabling Re-executable Workflowswith Near-real-time Visualization, ProvenanceCapture and Advanced Querying for MassSpectrometry Data"

January 25 - (Bldg. 725 | 12 - 2pm)Computational Science Initiative Open House

January 26 - (Hamilton Seminar Room, Bldg.555) Get to Know the Lab: "Medical IsotopeResearch & Production Program"

February 8 - (North Room, The Center | 9 am)Blood Drive

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Quote of the Month: "Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them." - Abraham Flexner

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February 11 - BERA Trip: LIRR to GrandCentral Open the Box Scavenger Hunt

February 16 - BERA Trip: NY Islanders vs.Rangers at the Barclay Center

February 20 - Lab Holiday: President's Day

IN OTHER NEWS...

SNMMI's 63rd Annual Meeting HighlightsHistory of FDG and Showcases New ResearchMore than 5,700 physicians, technologists,scientists and exhibitors gathered at the Societyof Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's2016 Annual Meeting, held June 11-15 in SanDiego, CA. This year's meeting included acelebration of the 40th anniversary of FDG. Readmore.

Local Scientists Take Home First Place Honors inBNL Science FairBudding young scientists filled the auditorium ofthe Suffolk County Legislature on Wednesday toeducate Legislators on their outstanding projectsthat won first place accolades at the year'sBrookhaven National Laboratory's Science Fair.Read more.

New Graphene-Glass Combo Powers"Spontaneous" Solar CellBrookhaven Does (Graphene) Windows.Apparently the Brookhaven solution to thegraphene problem has been staring everybody inthe face, ever since graphene was first discoveredin 2004: ordinary glass window. Read more.

Research Teams Use DNA to Make 3-DNanoparticle Structures with High PrecisionDNA strands anchored to the surface ofnanoparticles allow researchers to assemble theparticles into three-dimensional crystallinelattices. Such control allows researchers to make

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new materials with desirable properties. Readmore.

Farmingdale takes first in BNL High SchoolScience BowlFarmingdale High School students have onecontest down to a science. Read more.

New cathode material stops batteries turningcrusty with ageScientists at three US Department of Energy(DOE) national laboratories have discovered howto keep a promising new type of lithium ionbattery cathode from developing a crusty coatingthat degrades its performance. Read more.

RHIC Particle Smashups Find that Shape MattersScientists colliding football and sphere-shapedions discover evidence supporting a paradigmshift in the birth of the quark-gluon plasma. Readmore.

Two American Physics Labs Are Vying for aBillion Dollar Particle AcceleratorTwo labs are vying for government funding tohost a billion-dollar atom smasher, and the battleis getting political. Read more.

Neutrinos Change Their Flavor and SnagAnother Nobel PrizeEarly this morning the world learned that the2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded toTakaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald fordiscovering that neutrinos can change from one

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type to another. Read more.

World's largest atom smashers create world'ssmallest dropletsHow long can a droplet shrink and remain aliquid? Read more.

'Inflatable Dark Matter' Could Explain Why WeSee Less Than Many Theories PredictMany wonderful theories that explain theevolution of the universe fail because theypredict more dark matter than is actually outthere. Now a new paper proposes one event in theearly universe that would reduce the amount ofdark matter in all the theories. Read more.

Ion collider produces droplets of primordial gooThe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider just spit outtiny droplets of a liquid researchers sayresembles the seeds of the cosmos, primordialgoo created by the Big Bang, which existed onbriefly before cooling the matter that helped birthstars, galaxies and planets. Read more.

Brookhaven National Laboratory projects are upfor awardsFour projects developed at BNL have beennominated as finalists for awards to be presented

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this year by a national magazine. Read more.

Scientists Create Primordial 'Perfect Liquid' inLabThe BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collidersmashed together large nuclei at nearly the speedof light to recreate the fundamental particles inthe primordial soup present during the earliestdays of the universe. Read more.

World's most powerful digital camera beingbuilt by US Department of EnergyThe US Department of Energy is building adigital camera that puts your camera to shame.Read more.

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Malek will soon be leaving BNL to work at Columbia University. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.Congratulations!

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Haixin Huang submitted the following:"Just wanted to share with you that the high school student I mentored last summer, Vishrath Kumar fromSmithtown High School, was announced as one of 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science competition. (used to becalled the Intel Science competition). He will get a $2,000 scholarship for his college study. Here is the link to thenews: https://student.societyforscience.org/regeneronsts-scholars-2017"

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Nick & Corinne Franco welcomed their fifth grandchild, Samuel Nicholas Franco, to the family on December 27th.Samuel weighed in at 7 lbs. 9 oz.

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Big brother, Ethan, holds Samuel for the first time

Congratulations!!

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Steve Bellavia captured these beautiful images:

Neptune

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Comet

Crescent Moon

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What's going on in our neighborhood? day at the vineyards...

Interested in Cycling?

http://www.bicyclelongisland.org/majoride.htm http://www.cyclotour.com/events.htm

Interested in Running or Walking?

President Inauguration International Marathon - January 29 in East Meadow

City Running Tours - Rockaway Brewery Running Tour - February 4 in Long Island City

NYCRUNS Cocoa Classic 5K - February 4 in NYC

...Check out the LI Running Calendar for more!

Stony Brook Events:

Duckwalk North - SOUTHOLD - Music onSaturdays (4-6pm)

Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery -CUTCHOGUE - Vineyard Tours & WineTastings Every Thursday & Sunday at 1pm &FREE Jazz Every Saturday (2-4p) withMarguerite Volonts

Jamesport Vineyards - JAMESPORT -LiveMusic from 1-4pm every Fri, Sat & Sun

Martha Clara Vineyards - RIVERHEAD - LiveMusic every weekend

Palmer Vineyards - RIVERHEAD - Live Musicevery Sat (12-4).

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Celebrating Sinatra! Swing that Music with Danny Bacher - January 20 - 22 (Matinee: 2 pm, Evening: 7pm) atthe Education and Cultural Center.

Hot Cocoa and Marshmallows: Children's Author Series - January 26 - March 22 (10:30am) at the Educationaland Cultural Center.

Chinese New Year Celebration 2017 - January 29 (1-4pm) at the Educational and Cultural Center. Celebrate thenew year with festivities including: Authentic Shaolin, Manhattan Taiko, Long Island Chinese Dance Group, a craftactivity for the kids.

The Creation of Stony Brook Village - June 1, 2016 - May 31, 2017 (10 am - 5 pm) at the Educational and CulturalCenter. Experience the story of the reconstruction of Stony Brook Village through historical documents, photos,original blueprints, sketches, memorabilia and more.

Port Jefferson Events:

Farmers Market - Every Sunday through February (10a - 2p) at the Village Center. Purchase local produce, honey,bread and baked goods, seafood, international specialties, plants and flower bouquets.

Check out Erik Forsyth's Travels:

http://www.yachtfiona.com

Pindar Vineyards - PECONIC - Live MusicEvery Saturday (1-5pm)

Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard - BAITINGHOLLOW - Music every Sat & Sun from (2-6)

Paumanok Vineyards - RIVERHEAD - Fresh,Local Oysters (2-5pm) every Sat & Sun startingMemorial Day through September

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Note from Business operations: Sue Pankowski

Our fiscal year 2017 budget picture remains unclear at this point. We are currently operating on a Continuing Resolution (meaning funding is flatwith last year) until April 28, 2017. What occurs thereafter is anybody's guess. With that in mind, it's critical that everyone pay close attention totheir spending. Please refer to this following message sent earlier this month by Thomas Roser.

This Email is Being Sent on Behalf of Thomas Roser, C-A Department Chair

TO: C-AD Personnel

This year we are again faced with a Continuing Resolution (CR) that will extend beyond the point when we begin to incur incremental cost fromrunning RHIC. For the duration of the CR, DOE will provide periodic funding increments at a daily rate based on our prior year fundingauthorization. Thus, until the CR ends, the budget increase we anticipated is uncertain and we must manage to a flat budget.

To meet the challenge, while simultaneously preserving staff, we will need to initiate a number of all too familiar cost saving measures. Onceagain, you are asked to limit purchases to only what is essential to support the RHIC Operations, AIPs, and eRHIC R&D including CBETA.Please make sure that you always use the correct account number. Procurements in support of new initiatives and those that can be deferred

should be deferred. In total, we must cut current year purchases charged to the RHIC operating budget by ~$2M.

Consistent with our mission, preparations for RHIC Run 17 are proceeding as planned. Please keep in mind, however, that without an increase in funding, any non-essential procurements we make now may unnecessarily constrain our plans for the FY 2017 shutdown.

Spend wisely and make every dollar count!

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Note from our Accelerator Division: Wolfram Fischer

BLIP Operation has started on 3 January 2017, and the Linac current rapidly increased to last years' record value. As every year, a Systems DryRun was done RHIC last week in preparation for the start-up, and we are set to start the 4K cool-down wave on 6 February 2017. For the startupthere is still installation work to be completed for CeC PoP and the new LEReC DC electron gun, both in the RHIC Interaction Region 2.

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Note from our Experimental Support & Facilities Division: Bill Christie

As we reach the middle of January we are still on track to start the Cryogenic cool down of the collider for the upcoming RHIC Run 17 onFebruary 6th. The schedule can be found on the Web at the following link: http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/esfd/operatingschedules/CAD_operation_FY17.pdf

Work continues out in the PHENIX Facility with the disassembly of the PHENIX detector, parts of which are planned to be re-purposed andre-used (R&R) in the sPHENIX detector. There was a possibility that, with the two week delay in the start of Run 17 announced back inDecember, there may be sufficient time to clear space for the Central PHENIX magnet to be moved to the Assembly building before theshield wall had to be assembled. Due to some complications encountered with the disassembly of the South Muon arm in the Assemblybuilding, it was recently concluded that there would not be sufficient time, and hence the PHENIX shield wall is getting assembled with theCentral Magnet still physically in the IR.

Out at STAR in the few weeks since the Holidays a few of the important new detector sub systems needed for the Run 17 Physics plan/goalshave come together very well.

This includes a new Ultra Violet light curing system for the forward Meson Spectrometer (FMS). The FMS is a large array of Pb-glassblocks, read out by photo multiplier tubes, which works as an Electromagnetic calorimeter for forward going particles on the West (7:00

side) of STAR. The radiation from the particles passing through and showering in the FMS cause radiation damage which discolors the Pb-glass, reducing its lightcollection efficiency. For this year's run, with 500 GeV pp collisions this radiation damage has to be undone in situ during the run to maintain the devices neededperformance. A large array of UV emitting LEDs was designed, fabricated, and installed to remove the radiation damage. The system installation was completed about aweek ago, and it has been demonstrated to work by using it to clear the radiation damage that the FMS accumulated in the past few years. A very important result for thisyear's Physics run.

We've been working through the entire maintenance shutdown period on the design, procurement, fabrication, and installation of a new detector called the FMS PostShower Detector. This is a scintillator strip array that sits downstream of the FMS Pb-glass array, and is crucial for one of the components of the STAR Physics plan/goalsfor the Run 17 500 GeV program. All the effort on this new detector came together with its installation in the past two weeks. The testing so far on this device has lookedgood, and it is currently getting the final electronics hook up done, after which the final check out and integration into the STAR system can proceed.

All indications are that STAR will be ready, including the new capabilities needed for this year's Physics program, for the start of Run 17.

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Note from Our eRHIC R&D program: Ferdinand Willeke

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Note from Operations: Paul Sampson

RHIC shutdown is in the final stages and preparation for the upcoming run is underway as work on shutdown projects nears completion.LEReC and CeC PoP installation continues in and around the 2 o'clock region 7 days a week. Installation of the laser systems, cathodeassembly, platform and transport elements are the focus for LEReC, while reinstallation of the 704MHz cavity will be the main task forCeC PoP. It is expected that work will continue up to the last day of the shutdown and beyond, during access and maintenance periods.In RHIC sector 3&4, the new 9MHz RF cavities are being tested and commissioned, limiting access to these areas. Testing of theremaining warm RF systems will occur later this month and the 56MHz SCRF will be re-commissioned after RHIC cool-down iscompleted. Work at STAR and PHENIX continues on or close to schedule.

Setup for polarized proton running is underway in both the AGS and Booster. Good progress is being made.

LINAC was successfully restarted after the holiday. Isotope production started on schedule January 3rd and polarized protons were re-established January 9th.

EBIS and Tandem are providing beams for Booster and NSRL as necessary.

The “RHIC Broadcast” link displays the latest schedules for testing, power disruptions, outages and daily schedules.To view a list of approved work for the Shutdown or to review past results, go to the Job Request System and select the appropriate date. This link is behind the firewalland requires privileges to view. For weekly schedule updates see: This Week, which can be viewed by all.

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Note from Our Accelerator Test Facility: Mark Palmer

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Note from our MEDICAL ISOTOPE RESEARCH & PRODUCTION PROGRAM: Cathy Cutler

On January 3rd, the MIRP group started its season by inserting its first set of RbCl targets for Sr-82 production. The Linac start up came overthe holiday week and unfortunately a few problems were encountered. We want to thank Paul Sampson and all involved who helped get thechiller fixed to enable the Linac and the target irradiations to start on time, particularly those who came in and worked over the holidayweekend to get this done.

As most of you know it takes a lot of work while the beam is off to get the Linac and MIRP ready for the next season. At the TPL we needed towork with waste management to get the waste out of the hot cells and perform routine maintenance and upgrades to prepare for the nextseason. This year we worked with waste management to completely strip, clean and repaint two hot boxes that are to be used for evaluatingproduction of Cu-67 and Y-86. These radioisotopes are used for targeted imaging and treatment. This requires they be in very high specificactivity and contain very low non-radioactive metal content to ensure they have maximum uptake at the desired site. Thus we needed to cleanout the cells to minimize the introduction of metals into these isotopes. We further worked with waste management to clean out the Sr-82 hotboxes for the new season. We want to thank waste management for all their efforts in improving our hot cells enabling us to ensure the qualityof our products.

The TPL operators worked on cleaning out the main hot cell and repainting it. Last year we had a number of remote manipulator issues andSteve Bellavia has been helping us to address these and find a path forward to ensure we can minimize these in the future. This will require additional engineeringsupport from C-AD. We had the factory engineer in to perform repairs and maintenance. In addition to the refurbishment going on at the TPL we have been refurbishingthe BLIP and working on improvements to the hot cell, and instrumentation. Steve Pontieri has been working on installing an additional inch of lead on the hot cells toallow for increased production of Sr-82 and Ac-225. Additionally he has been working on the installation of sound proofing to serve as both protection to the equipmentas well as to reduce the noise for the operators working in the area. Jason Nalepa and Slawko Kurczak have been testing and fabricating new detectors as well as cleaningout the hot cell to prepare for the new season. Of course all of this requires the support of the Rad Con group to ensure we get everything done in a safe manner. Thanksfor everyone’s support in getting us back into operation.

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Arrivals: Welcome!

Kayla Hernandez - RF Systems, Accelerator Division

Kazumasa Takahashi - Preinjector Systems, Accelerator Division

DEPARTURES: Farewell, you will surely be missed..

Guest Notices:

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safety stats: Peter Cirnigliaro

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