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Note from our Chair: Thomas Roser

The RHIC run 17 is under way and progressing quite well. An initial scare of a possible faulty superconducting helical magnet in one of the fourRHIC Siberian snakes turned out to be due to a bad electrical connection that could easily be fixed.

During this run we will also be commissioning the electron beams for the Coherent electron Cooling (CeC) experiment for the Low EnergyRHIC electron Cooling (LEReC) project. Both of these installations are in the 2 o'clock interaction regions. Recently the 5-cell superconducting704 MHz cavity, the main accelerating cavity for CeC, was tested after being removed, cleaned, reassembled and reinstalled. The cavity nowperforms very well. Congratulations to the SRF team!

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 whoreceived a Service Award.

Check out who received an employee Spotlight Award this year!

March 18 - BERA Trip: Philadelphia FlowerShow

March 22 - (Brookhaven Center | 8:30 am) Officeof Educational Programs Event

March 23 - (Berkner Hall Auditorium | 4pm)BSA Distinguished Lecture: "Unlocking theMaterials Genome Through CombinatorialNanoscience" by Chad Mirkin

March 24 - 25 - (Berkner Hall Auditorium | 8am)2017 Long Island Environment Conference

March 25 - BERA Trip: Islanders vs. Boston

March 29 - (Berkner Hall Auditorium | 12 pm)

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Quote of the Month: "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character." - Albert Einstein

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C-AD celebrates Dan Wilson who retired last month. Happy Retirement, Dan! We wish you allthe best!

BSA Noon Recital: Jiji, Guitar

April 6 - (Brickhouse Brewery & Restaurant,Patchogue | 6 pm) Dinner Meeting: LI AmericanNuclear Society

April 8 - BERA Trip: Charlie and the ChocolateFactory

April 13 - (Berkner Hall | 12pm) Take OurDaughters and Sons to Work DayIN OTHER NEWS...

SNMMI's 63rd Annual Meeting Highlights Historyof FDG and Showcases New ResearchMore than 5,700 physicians, technologists, scientistsand exhibitors gathered at the Society of NuclearMedicine and Molecular Imaging's 2016 AnnualMeeting, held June 11-15 in San Diego, CA. Thisyear's meeting included a celebration of the 40thanniversary of FDG. Read more.

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 the grapheneproblem has been staring everybody in the face,ever since graphene was first discovered in 2004:ordinary glass window. Read more.

Research Teams Use DNA to Make 3-DNanoparticle Structures with High PrecisionDNA strands anchored to the surface of

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nanoparticles allow researchers to assemble theparticles into three-dimensional crystalline lattices.Such control allows researchers to make newmaterials with desirable properties. Read more.

Farmingdale takes first in BNL High School ScienceBowlFarmingdale High School students have one contestdown to a science. Read more.

New cathode material stops batteries turningcrusty with ageScientists at three US Department of Energy (DOE)national laboratories have discovered how to keep apromising new type of lithium ion battery cathodefrom developing a crusty coating that degrades itsperformance. Read more.

RHIC Particle Smashups Find that Shape MattersScientists colliding football and sphere-shaped ionsdiscover evidence supporting a paradigm shift in thebirth of the quark-gluon plasma. Read more.

Two American Physics Labs Are Vying for a BillionDollar Particle AcceleratorTwo labs are vying for government funding to hosta billion-dollar atom smasher, and the battle isgetting political. Read more.

Neutrinos Change Their Flavor and Snag AnotherNobel PrizeEarly this morning the world learned that the 2015Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to TakaakiKajita and Arthur B. McDonald for discovering thatneutrinos can change from one type to another.Read more.

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

'Inflatable Dark Matter' Could Explain Why We SeeLess Than Many Theories PredictMany wonderful theories that explain the evolutionof the universe fail because they predict more darkmatter than is actually out there. Now a new paperproposes one event in the early universe that would




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reduce the amount of dark matter in all the theories.Read more.

Ion collider produces droplets of primordial gooThe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider just spit out tinydroplets of a liquid researchers say resembles theseeds of the cosmos, primordial goo created by theBig Bang, which existed on briefly before coolingthe matter that helped birth stars, galaxies andplanets. Read more.

Brookhaven National Laboratory projects are upfor awardsFour projects developed at BNL have beennominated as finalists for awards to be presentedthis year by a national magazine. Read more.

Scientists Create Primordial 'Perfect Liquid' in LabThe BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider smashedtogether large nuclei at nearly the speed of light torecreate the fundamental particles in the primordialsoup present during the earliest days of the universe.Read more.

World's most powerful digital camera being builtby US Department of EnergyThe US Department of Energy is building a digital





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Suresh Srivastava, Senior Medical Scientist Emeritus, wrote about the focus on theragnostics at the 11thInternational Conference of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy (ICRT), which included presentationson various applications of radionuclides for therapy of cancer and other diseases. Read more here.

camera that puts your camera to shame. Read more.

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

Interested in Cycling?

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Interested in Running or Walking?

Four Leaf Clover 5K - March 18 in East Moriches

North Shore St. Patrick's Day - Corn Beef and Cabbage 5K - March 19 in Glen Head

United Airlines NYC Half - March 19 in NYC

Riverhead Rocks 10 Mile - March 25 in Riverhead

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

Stony Brook Events:

Young at Heart Programs - Spring 2017 - March 8 - June 21 (1 - 2p) All are welcome to enjoy various musicand lecture programs hosted by The Jazz Loft and The Educational & Cultural Center of Stony Brook Village.

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

Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery -CUTCHOGUE - Vineyard Tours & Wine TastingsEvery Thursday & Sunday at 1pm & FREE JazzEvery Saturday (2-4p) with Marguerite Volonts

Jamesport Vineyards - JAMESPORT -Live Musicfrom 1-4pm every Fri, Sat & Sun

Martha Clara Vineyards - RIVERHEAD - LiveMusic every weekend

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

Pindar Vineyards - PECONIC - Live Music EverySaturday (1-5pm)

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


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

The Creation of Stony Brook Village - June 1, 2016-May 31, 2017 (10 am - 5 pm) at the Educational andCultural Center. 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:

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

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Note from Business operations: Sue Pankowski

In lieu of my monthly admonition to spend wisely due to our continuing budget uncertainty, I offer you a variety ofreminders/requests/notifications…

Annual Asset Validation—In March of each year, employees are asked to review a list of assets assigned to them in order to acknowledge thatthe assets are in their possession and verify that the data for each asset is correct. This process is automated via an email link generated byPeopleSoft. Please be attentive and respond when you see the request, and enter April Spencer as your AD Property Rep. Please reach out toApril at ext. 8732 should you have any questions.

Update Your Timecards—All employees are expected to update their timecard at least once per week, or more frequently if necessary. Questions on timecard preparation can be addressed to Karen Cestra at ext. 4586.

Webreqs—Steve Bubka is our department expert when it comes to expediting webreqs, work orders, and RFQ’s. Please remember to copy Steveand he will ensure it gets properly routed for department approvals.

Proposals—If you’re a PI considering a proposal for new funding of any type (including DOE FOA’s, sub-contracted SBIR’s, or unsolicitedthird party proposals), please remember to prepare your Prep. and Risk Questionnaire (aka PaRQ form) early in the process! Submission of the online questionnaire alertsmanagement, business operations, ES&H, and the strategic partnership office of your intent to apply for new business. It’s also reviewed by DOE’s site office.

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Note from our Accelerator Division: Wolfram Fischer

The RHIC Run-17 is now under way. We went into physics mode on Friday, 17 February 2017, after a record setup time with beam of 12 days. In2013, the last time we ran polarized protons at 255 GeV this took 21 days. Congratulations to Vahid Ranjbar, the Run Coordinator, Travis Shrey,who organized the setup, and the entire team.

Two new 9 MHz cavities were commissioned and are not in operation, for which Sal Polizzo was the lead engineer. We have now almost reachedthe maximum luminosity for STAR, and the main effort will be to make the luminosity flat, and have the highest possible polarization. AnatoliZelenski's polarized beam source, due to an improvement in the ion optical system, now delivers 20% more beam. This is the result of a continuingcollaboration with BINP in Novosibirsk.

Meanwhile there are many activities in IR2. The superconducting gun and booster cavity for the Coherent electron Cooling Proof of Principle(CeC PoP) are cold and being conditioned with RF and the Low Energy RHIC electron Cooling (LEReC) DC gun beam line is being prepared forbeam operation. This still requires more than usual access time.

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Note from our Experimental Support & Facilities Division: Bill Christie

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Note from Our eRHIC R&D program: Ferdinand Willeke

Recent progress and success for the Crab Cavity Development Groupby Ilan Ben-Zvi

Crab cavities are a critical element for achieving high luminosity in colliders like the LHC high luminosity upgrade or the Electron Ion Collider.Over the past 6 months, the members of the Crab Cavity Development Group made significant progress in the development of 400 MHz DoubleQuarter Wave crab cavities, designed by the group. The work has been carried out in tight collaboration with a US manufacturer, Jefferson Lab(Jlab), and CERN. Group members travelled with the cavities to the various action sites, and kept daily communications with the differentnodes of the LHC crab cavity network. The pay back for this hard work has been record performance, attained in cold test from twoindependently produced cavities in rapid succession. The cold test (superconducting) results of both cavities achieved a maximum deflectingvoltage above 5 MV (5.2 MV at CERN and 5.8 MV at Jlab), which well exceeds the requirement of 3.4 MV from HiLumi LHC program. Bothcavities also reached a surface resistivity of 10 nOhm, the CERN specified value.The two cavities were manufactures from different stock niobium metal, post processed in two separate facilities and independently cold testedin two locations. One cavity was produced by the DOE LARP program and the other one by CERN. The BNL team has been deeply involved

all along the way. In terms of schedule, the first cold test at CERN was completed within 1 year from the purchasing of the niobium stalk. The achievement of this quickfabrication time and superb cold test results attest the excellence of the BNL group's design of the Double Quarter Wave the crab cavity.

The next step for the LHC crab cavity project will be cold test of the cavity with higher order mode coupler. Our group also started preliminary studies of the eRHIC crabcavity design, which has a similar frequency and less spacial constrains.

This photo shows the final clean room assembly of the Double Quarter Wave Crab Cavity at CERN.

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Note from Operations: Paul Sampson

RHIC startup was completed and Physics began on schedule in February. Physics will continue to run throughout the month of March.

Work on LEReC and CeC PoP will continue behind access and on Maintenance Days throughout Run 17.

The new 9 MHz RF cavities in RHIC have been tested and commissioned and all other RD systems are operational.

Setup and improvement of polarized proton running continues in the injectors with good progress continuing.

LINAC continues to run for BLIP and polarized protons.

With Physics running in RHIC, scheduled Maintenance and APEX will occur weekly on Wednesdays. Final schedules will be determined at weekly schedulingmeetings.

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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http://www.rhichome.bnl.gov/RHIC/EXP-RHIC/RhicBroadcast.html

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http://www.cadops.bnl.gov/AGS/Accel/Maintenance/Requests/view.php

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Link to: ATF Newsletter

Note from Our Accelerator Test Facility: Mark Palmer

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

The next couple of months are going to offer many opportunities for the MIRP group to showcase what we do and what we can do. We arehaving our Science and Technology Review on the 28th and 29th of March. Although the group has had many of these, this is actually the firstI've experienced since being at BNL. I think we have a good story to tell as during the past two years we successfully installed the raster aheadof schedule and under budget. Further we successfully completed the Linac phase I intensity upgrade. This enabled us to produce 50% more Sr-82 last year and the extra supply allowed filling emergency orders last year when others weren't able to supply. Our research output has growndue to the presence of two postdocs; as well as increased presence of students and collaborations with outside researchers. We underwent asurprise FDA inspection successfully and planned internal and customer audits.

In addition to the S&T review we are having a round robin to assess what it would take at BNL, ORNL and LANL to bring up facilities forprocessing Ac-225. We have two plans that we have generated to facilitate additional processing at 801. One would refurbish the now defuncthot cells originally used for metallurgical analysis of HFBR components and reactor fuel research but have sat idle for years. Refurbishmentwould offer the MIRP the ability to add production lines that would have minimal impact on ongoing current activities. It would not only meetcurrent expected demands but possible future demands in high activity production. A second upgrade that has been evaluated is modifyingbuilding 801 room 2-66 C to allow for a GMP production line. This upgrade would enable a production line that is isolated from the TPL andwould free up space for more research or additional production in the TPL.

All of these efforts are to facilitate growth of the MIRP program in the research and development of radioisotopes for clinical applications. Further to increase our effortsin work force development. BNL is uniquely located close to many of the largest and best universities in the country. Our flexibility in operations allows us to conductresearch and training that is not possible at other universities or national labs.

Finally we have our overall DOE Isotope program strategic planning meeting in April. We are in the process of completing our materials for all these reviews and have orwill be calling on many of you for assistance. We thank you in advance for providing such a good story for these reviews and helping us to plan for our future growth.

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Arrivals: Welcome!

DEPARTURES: Farewell, you will surely be missed..

Brian Briscoe - Preinjector Systems, Accelerator Division

Suresh Deonarine - RF Systems, Accelerator Divison

Ray Karol - ESSHQ Division

Masafumi Kumaki

Enrique Terron Schuhmacher - Controls Systems, Accelerator Division

Edward Ulrich - Survey Group, ES&F Division

Daniel Wilson - Vacuum Systems, Accelerator Division

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safety stats: Peter Cirnigliaro

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