BNL

BNL, or Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, on Long Island. Established in 1947, it conducts basic and applied research across a broad range of fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, environmental science, and materials and energy science. The lab's mission includes advancing fundamental knowledge, supporting national energy and security priorities, and promoting regional economic development. It is managed by Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership between Stony Brook University and Battelle Memorial Institute.

Research facilities at Brookhaven include the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a collider used to study strongly interacting matter at high energy; the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a state-of-the-art synchrotron for high-brightness X-ray science; and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a user facility for nanoscale science and engineering. The lab also operates accelerator complexes and large-scale detectors, and hosts extensive computing and data resources. The original National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) operated from the 1980s until NSLS-II began operations in the 2010s, after which NSLS was decommissioned.

Brookhaven's scientific program has contributed to the study of quantum chromodynamics, the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, and advances in materials science, catalysis, biology and medical imaging. The laboratory also emphasizes education, training, and collaborations with universities, industry, and other national laboratories.