Decades of Discovery at Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488), Main Lecture Hall

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Description

At Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists make history while expanding the frontiers of discovery.

Celebrate the milestone anniversaries of Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and learn about future explorations in physics at a symposium on Friday, Nov. 22, from 1 to 6 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

This symposium will feature talks on the discoveries of CP violation, the J/psi particle, and their impacts on physics research. It will also provide insights on current and future experiments to advance our understanding of the universe, particularly at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Large Hadron Collider, BELLE-II at SuperKEKB, and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

60 years since CP violation discovery

The first discovery of this celebration occurred at Brookhaven Lab in 1964 when Val Fitch and James Cronin discovered a violation of charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) — called “CP violation” — in an experiment at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS). Fitch and Cronin were presented with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980.

50 years since J/psi discovered

The second discovery of this celebration occurred in 1974 when a new fundamental particle — the J/psi particle — was discovered at both Brookhaven and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, which today is SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Samuel C.C. Ting discovered what he called the "J" particle using the AGS at Brookhaven. Burton Richter found the same particle, which he called the "psi," at SLAC at nearly the same time. The J/psi particle confirmed the existence of another fundamental particle: the charm quark. Ting and Richter shared the Nobel prize for Physics in 1976.

 
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    • 1:00 PM 1:10 PM
      Introduction and Welcome to BNL 10m
      Speaker: Elizabeth Worcester (BNL)
    • 1:10 PM 1:45 PM
      History of J/psi Discovery at BNL 35m
      Speaker: Samuel Ting (MIT)
    • 1:45 PM 2:20 PM
      A history of the Psi and its offspring 35m
      Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)
    • 2:20 PM 2:55 PM
      History of CP Violation Discovery 35m
      Speaker: Ed Blucher (Chicago)
    • 2:55 PM 3:20 PM
      The Intensity of Astonishment: Celebrating Two BNL Discoveries from a Historian's View 25m
      Speaker: Bob Crease (Stony Brook University)
    • 3:20 PM 3:30 PM
      Group Photo 10m
    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 4:00 PM 4:20 PM
      Discoveries at the Cosmotron and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron 20m
      Speaker: Nicholas Samios (BNL)
    • 4:20 PM 4:35 PM
      Current research at BNL: J/psi at RHIC 15m
      Speaker: Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 4:35 PM 4:50 PM
      Current research at BNL: J/psi in LHC Run 3 15m
      Speaker: Haider Abidi
    • 4:50 PM 5:05 PM
      Current research at BNL: CP Violation at Belle-II 15m
      Speaker: Angelo Di Canto (BNL)
    • 5:05 PM 5:20 PM
      Current research at BNL: CP Violation at DUNE 15m
      Speaker: Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University)
    • 5:20 PM 5:50 PM
      How the J/psi and CPV Discoveries Shaped Particle Physics 30m
      Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Lab)
    • 5:50 PM 6:00 PM
      Discussion 10m
    • 6:00 PM 7:00 PM
      Reception 1h