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Note from our Chair: Thomas Roser

Just hours before the end of the Continuing Resolution that funded the federal government since the beginning of the 2017 Fiscal Year, PresidentTrump signed the Omnibus budget bill of 2017. The funding for the Office of Nuclear Physics, which funds RHIC, is slightly higher in theOmnibus bill than expected under a full-year Continuing Resolution and we are hopeful that the RHIC run can be extended until the end of June.

We had a number of successes during the last month: the prototype girder with eight permanent magnet quadruples for the CBETA project wascompleted on schedule, high-power CW 15 MeV electron beam was transported successfully through the entire Coherent electron Cooling beamline to the high power beam dump, and first electron beam was generated in the LEReC DC electron gun and successfully transported to thediagnostic beam dump. All of this was achieved while also operating RHIC with high luminosity and record beam polarization at 510 GeV COMenergy. Congratulations to everybody for these outstanding achievements.

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 received aService Award.

Check out who received an employee Spotlight Award this year!

Congratulations to Ray Karol, who retired last month. We wish you all the best in health and happiness as you enjoy retiredlife!

May 18 - 19 - (Seminar Room, Bldg.735 | 10 am) Computational ScienceInitiative Event: "Seminar: How Doesthe ATLAS experiment managePetabytes of data?"

May 18 - (Bldg. 734, Rm. 201 | 11 am)Sustainable Energy TechnologiesDepartment "Rechargeable BatteryTechnologies for Stationary EnergyStorage Applications"

May 18 - (Bldg. 555, HamiltonSeminar Rm. | 4 pm) BrookhavenWomen In Science Lecture: Nassau

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Quote of the Month: "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." - Edwin PowellHubble

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Ray with family at his Retirement Dinner

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Frank and I so enjoyed the beautiful C-AD Wedding Shower that was organized for us by our wonderful friends. To all thosewho attended, wished us well, and contributed to the beautiful group gift - thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We're sohonored you could join us in celebration of this joyous occasion!

Community College's Natika Newtonto Give Talk on "Understanding andSelf-Organization"

May 23 - (Online Webinar | 9 am)Research Library Webinar:SpringerMaterials and its NewInteractive Functionalities

May 24 (Berkner Hall Auditorium |12 pm) BSA Noon Recital: "PianistNadejda Vlaeva"

May 29 - Lab Holiday: Memorial Day

May 30 - Office of EducationalPrograms Event: "Open SpaceStewardship Program Celebration"

June 11 - BERA Trip: Broadwayshow - Beautiful: The Carole KingMusicalIN OTHER NEWS...

SNMMI's 63rd Annual MeetingHighlights History of FDG andShowcases New ResearchMore than 5,700 physicians,technologists, scientists and exhibitorsgathered at the Society of NuclearMedicine and Molecular Imaging's 2016Annual Meeting, held June 11-15 in SanDiego, CA. This year's meeting includeda celebration of the 40th anniversary ofFDG. Read more.

Local Scientists Take Home First PlaceHonors in BNL Science FairBudding young scientists filled theauditorium of the Suffolk CountyLegislature on Wednesday to educateLegislators on their outstanding projectsthat won first place accolades at theyear's Brookhaven National Laboratory'sScience Fair. Read more.

New Graphene-Glass Combo Powers"Spontaneous" Solar Cell

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promising new type of lithium ionbattery cathode from developing a crustycoating that degrades its performance.Read more.

RHIC Particle Smashups Find that ShapeMattersScientists colliding football and sphere-shaped ions discover evidencesupporting a paradigm shift in the birthof the quark-gluon plasma. Read more.

Two American Physics Labs Are Vyingfor a Billion Dollar Particle AcceleratorTwo labs are vying for governmentfunding to host a billion-dollar atomsmasher, and the battle is gettingpolitical. Read more.

Neutrinos Change Their Flavor andSnag Another Nobel PrizeEarly this morning the world learnedthat the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics hasbeen awarded to Takaaki Kajita and


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Arthur B. McDonald for discoveringthat neutrinos can change from one typeto another. Read more.

World's largest atom smashers createworld's smallest dropletsHow long can a droplet shrink andremain a liquid? Read more.

'Inflatable Dark Matter' Could ExplainWhy We See Less Than Many TheoriesPredictMany wonderful theories that explainthe evolution of the universe failbecause they predict more dark matterthan is actually out there. Now a newpaper proposes one event in the earlyuniverse that would reduce the amountof dark matter in all the theories. Readmore.

Ion collider produces droplets ofprimordial gooThe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider justspit out tiny droplets of a liquidresearchers say resembles the seeds ofthe cosmos, primordial goo created bythe Big Bang, which existed on brieflybefore cooling the matter that helpedbirth stars, galaxies and planets. Readmore.

Brookhaven National Laboratoryprojects are up for awardsFour projects developed at BNL have







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been nominated as finalists for awards tobe presented this year by a nationalmagazine. Read more.

Scientists Create Primordial 'PerfectLiquid' in LabThe BNL's Relativistic Heavy IonCollider smashed together large nuclei atnearly the speed of light to recreate thefundamental particles in the primordialsoup present during the earliest days ofthe universe. Read more.

World's most powerful digital camerabeing built by US Department of EnergyThe US Department of Energy isbuilding a digital camera that puts yourcamera to shame. Read more.




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

Interested in Cycling?

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Interested in Running or Walking?

5K to End Addiction - May 20 in Patchogue

Heart of Plainedge 5K - May 20 in Massapequa

I Did the Grid 4 Mile Run - May 27 in East Northport

Navy Seal LT Michael P. Murphy 4 Mile Run/Walk Around the Lake - June 4 in Lake Ronkonkoma

2017 Marcum Workplace Challenge - July 25 at Jones Beach State Park

...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 music and lectureprograms hosted by The Jazz Loft and The Educational & Cultural Center of Stony Brook Village.

Musical Theater Tribute Performances: The Debbie Reynolds Story - (May 6 - June 15)

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

Ladies Night Out - (May 18 | 6 - 9 pm) Live music, food and wine. Free gifts and raffles, and more!

Port Jefferson Events:

Farmers Market - Every Sunday through October (10a - 2p) at the Village Center. Purchase local produce, honey, bread andbaked goods, seafood, international specialties, plants and flower bouquets. Harbor Front Concert Series - Free Concert (May 19 | 7 pm) Classical music concert at the Village Center of PortJefferson 15K to the Port Jeff Brewing Company - May 21 in Port Jefferson

Check out Erik Forsyth's Travels:

Duckwalk North - SOUTHOLD - Musicon Saturdays (4-6pm)

Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery- CUTCHOGUE - Vineyard Tours &Wine Tastings Every Thursday &Sunday at 1pm & FREE Jazz EverySaturday (2-4p) with MargueriteVolonts

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

Martha Clara Vineyards -RIVERHEAD - Live Music everyweekend

Palmer Vineyards - RIVERHEAD -Live Music every Sat (12-4).

Pindar Vineyards - PECONIC - LiveMusic Every Saturday (1-5pm)

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

Paumanok Vineyards - RIVERHEAD -Fresh, Local Oysters (2-5pm) every Sat& Sun starting Memorial Day throughSeptember

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Note from Business operations: Sue Pankowski

Budget UpdateFiscal year 2017 appropriations were finalized earlier this month when both houses of Congress passed legislation that was subsequently signedinto law by the President. Final FY2017 budget guidance for our DOE supported programs is expected within the coming weeks. The budgetanticipated for RHIC Accelerator Operations would support a 21 week run.

Prep. & Risk QuestionnairesA reminder to Principal Investigators--All new proposals must be entered into the Prep. & Risk Questionnaire (PaRQ) website: https://services.bnl.gov/apps/ProposalQ/SitePages/Home.aspx

The PaRQ is required for proposals related to new Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA’s) from Federal agencies, proposals for StrategicPartnership Projects, and all other new work being planned with any other organization.

It’s important to remember that some work proposals, particularly where we participate as a sub-contractor on SBIR proposals, require specificDOE authorization letters to be submitted with the proposals. Please reach out to me or any analyst from the C-AD business operations staff andwe will coordinate obtaining these documents.

Updates from ProcurementBNL Procurement has recently introduced new review and approval requirements for the purchase of televisions. Televisions cannot be ordered on a credit card or witheBuy, rather all such purchases must be done via a WebReq.

A new webpage has been prepared with details on eBuy training, resources, and commonly ordered items: https://intranet.bnl.gov/ppm/EPro/eBuyResources.asp

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Note from our Accelerator Division: Wolfram Fischer

RHIC has now delivered the originally planned 400 pb-1, at an average beam polarization of P = 54.6%. We plan to continue running withpolarized protons collisions until the end of May. The recent weeks showed larger failure hours, which was often connected to power dips. In June,we plan to run the CeC Proof-of-Principle experiment in parallel with gold-gold collisions for STAR, and at the end have a special run for RHICfin which polarized protons are colliding again, but with a large beam size and small angular spread.

At the beginning of June, we also plan to repair the Linac module 6, which showed sparking and presently does not allow to run the BLIP beam atthe full Linac energy. The BLIP beam currently runs at 117 MeV. Meanwhile, on 18 April 2017, the first beam has been extracted from the LowEnergy RHIC electron Cooling (LEReC) electron gun.

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Note from our Experimental Support & Facilities Division: Bill Christie

The ongoing RHIC run is going well. The highest priority for this year's Physics program is a 510 GeV transversely polarized proton-protondata set requested for the STAR program. "Physics running" was declared for the accumulation of this multi-faceted data set on February23rd, and some of the key, central detector related, parts of this data set are just starting to reach their goals. There are a number of forwarddetector related data set goals that got a later start due to the need to commission and calibrate some new systems for this year that still have aways to go, but from the projections it looks like we should reach them before the end of the proton running in May, before we switch toheavy ion running.

Throughout the run this year you've all likely heard that, as we don't know what the budget is for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, and hence we don'tknow how long the RHIC run will last. As of last Friday there is a Federal Budget for FY 2017. The indications are that when BNL gets itsbudget for this year that it will support a 21 cryo week RHIC run. This past week, we've put together a plan/schedule for the remainder of therun, which has the run ending, and the cryogenics plane shut down, in the morning on Monday July third. You can find the final schedule forthe current RHIC run online at the following link:http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/esfd/operatingschedules/CAD_operation_FY17.pdf

What you'll see if you look at the schedule s that we'll be running the top energy proton program until the morning of May 30th, at whichpoint we'll stop running the protons, and switch over to low energy gold on gold (Au) running. At this point the LINAC will be able to gooffline for about a week or so to repair an issue that is preventing it from running a program that we are committed to running this year,

known as Radiate. Once the repair is completed this program will be run.

On June 21st, we'll end the low energy AuAu program and transition back to the full energy polarized proton program, this time with radially (i.e. proton spin pointing inthe horizontal, versus the current vertical, plane) polarized beams for what's known as the RHICf experimental program. RHICf is a forward detector that will reside in thelocation of the West (7:00 side) Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) of STAR. The primary purpose of this experiment is to gather data on the forward going particle crosssections for use to calibrate Cosmic Ray shower models, but it has a secondary goal of trying to study the transverse momentum (Pt) dependence of a single spinasymmetry that was observed by the PHENIX experiment in an earlier run.One can find the day to day schedule for the rest of this year's run online at the following Web link:http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/esfd/Christie_W/May_june_21wks_v2_sched_only.pdfAs the run progresses some of the details of this schedule may change a bit as deemed prudent, but we'll be trying to follow this for the remainder of the run.

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Note from Our eRHIC R&D program: Ferdinand Willeke

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Note from Operations: Paul Sampson

Polarized Proton Physics running will continue in RHIC for the remainder of May.

Good progress has been made in setting up for CeC during Operations and dedicated running periods. Setup for running CeC with Au-Au Physics will commence next month. At LEReC, beam has been transported to the dump and work will continue during PhysicsStores. Both CeC and LEReC installation work continues during times of access and scheduled maintenance.

NSRL Run 17A will end late in the month and Run 17B will begin the week of the 29th. Beams from EBIS and LINAC continue toreliably deliver beams for NSRL. Tests of the Galactic Cosmic Ray Simulator system were conducted earlier this month.

LINAC continues to run for BLIP and polarized protons. A BIPB 180MeV run, originally scheduled for this month, was postponed dueto an internal problem with one of the modules. Repairs are presently scheduled for the beginning of June and are expected to take approximately one week.

Maintenance and APEX will continue to occur weekly. Final schedules will be determined at weekly scheduling meetings.

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

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

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

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

So this month we say good bye as a number of members of the MIRP group are leaving. Jason Nalepa who has served as our lead BLIPoperator is moving onto waste management to aid in supervision of their projects. We want to thank Jason as he was always good at gettingthings completed and across the finish line and stepping in as needed to help other members of the group. We are sad to see him go but happyto see him advancing in his desired career path.

Two of our postdocs will be departing at the end of May as well. Ali Younes has accepted a position at Hunter College starting June first. Theplan is to increase our collaborations with Hunter and having Ali there should help. Anthony DeGraffenreid has accepted a position atLantheus. There he will be aiding them in their accelerator production.

We also have several new faces at the MIRP. A new postdoc Vanessa Sanders that recently got her PhD in radiochemistry from UNLV. Shewill be picking up some of Anthony’s projects and working on labeling antibodies. Additionally we welcomed Dohyun Kim to the group. Dohyun has been hired to fill in behind Leonard Mausner who will be retiring in July. Dohyun used to work for the PET group and has a strongbackground in automating processing and detectors. This adds some expertise to the group that will benefit us as we add in new productionlines. Two new MIRP operators have joined the MIRP group as well. Henry Chelminski who has a master’s in chemistry and a strongmechanical background and Jesse Zeigler who worked in the navy and mostly recently as a reactor operator at Indian Point Nuclear Power

Plant. Please help us in welcoming our new group members and saying good bye to those who are moving on.

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Arrivals: Welcome!

Henryk Chelminksi - MIRP

Dohyun Kim - MIRP

Vanessa Sanders - MIRP

Jesse Zeigler - MIRP

DEPARTURES: Farewell, you will surely be missed..

Ali Younes

Anthony DeGraffenreid

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safety stats: Peter Cirnigliaro

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