Smithsonian Magazine

The U.S.’s Only Particle Collider Recreated Moments From the Early Universe. Now, It Has Closed—to Make Way for a New Instrument

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...
Interesting Engineering

US largest particle collider wraps up final run after 25 years of discoveries

After 25 years of experiments recreating early-universe matter, Brookhaven's RHIC has completed its final particle collisions ...

A smashing success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up final collisions

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...
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BNL’s collider ends 25-year run, new electron-ion machine to rise

For more than two decades, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator have recreated conditions ...
IEEE

Single-Event Effects Induced by Monoenergetic Fast Neutrons in Silicon Power UMOSFETs

Abstract: The trench gate or U-groove MOSFET (UMOSFET) has become widely adopted as a semiconductor device globally, gradually replacing the traditional vertical double-diffused MOSFET (DMOSFET) in ...