Editing Brookhaven National Laboratory (section)

==Major facilities==
* [[Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider]] (RHIC),  which was designed to research [[quark–gluon plasma]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/ |title=RHIC &#124; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |publisher=Bnl.gov |access-date=2010-03-17}}</ref> and the sources of proton spin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/spin.asp|title=RHIC {{!}} Spin Physics|website=www.bnl.gov|access-date=2016-08-23|archive-date=July 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726022311/http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/spin.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Until 2009 it was the world's most powerful heavy ion collider. It is the only collider of spin-polarized protons.
* [[Center for Functional Nanomaterials]] (CFN), used for the study of [[Nanoscopic scale|nanoscale]] materials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bnl.gov/cfn/ |title=Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory |publisher=Bnl.gov |access-date=2010-03-17}}</ref>
* [[National Synchrotron Light Source II]] (NSLS-II), Brookhaven's newest user facility, opened in 2015 to replace the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), which had operated for 30 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/ |title=National Synchrotron Light Source |publisher=Nsls.bnl.gov |access-date=2010-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315034957/http://www.nsls.bnl.gov/ |archive-date=March 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> NSLS was involved in the work that won the 2003 and 2009 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].<ref name="Bnl.gov">{{cite web |url=http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_03.asp |title=Nobel Prize &#124; 2003 Chemistry Prize, Roderick MacKinnon |publisher=Bnl.gov |access-date=2010-03-17 |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528003452/http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/nobel/nobel_03.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Alternating Gradient Synchrotron]], a [[particle accelerator]] that was used in three of the lab's [[Nobel Prize|Nobel prizes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/facilities/AGS.asp |title=Alternating Gradient Synchrotron |publisher=Bnl.gov |date=2008-01-31 |access-date=2010-03-17 |archive-date=January 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113044924/http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/facilities/AGS.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Accelerator Test Facility (New York)|Accelerator Test Facility]], generates, accelerates and monitors [[particle beam]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/facilities/ATF.asp |title=Accelerator Test Facility |publisher=Bnl.gov |date=2008-01-31 |access-date=2010-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527182608/http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/facilities/ATF.asp |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* [[Van de Graaff generator#Tandem accelerators|Tandem Van de Graaff]], once the world's largest [[electrostatic accelerator]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/facilities/TVdG.asp |title=Tandem Van de Graaff |publisher=Bnl.gov |date=2008-02-28 |access-date=2010-03-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219001009/http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/facilities/TVdG.asp |archive-date=February 19, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* Computational Science resources, including access to a massively parallel [[Blue Gene]] series supercomputer that is among the fastest in the world for scientific research, run jointly by Brookhaven National Laboratory and [[Stony Brook University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bnl.gov/newyorkblue/|title=New York Blue, Blue Gene/L, Parallel Supercomputer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, (BNL)|website=www.bnl.gov|access-date=May 13, 2019|archive-date=April 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426051731/http://www.bnl.gov/newyorkblue/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Interdisciplinary Science Building, with unique laboratories for studying high-temperature superconductors and other materials important for addressing energy challenges.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11523|title=BNL Newsroom {{!}} Doors Open at New Interdisciplinary Science Building for Energy Research at Brookhaven Lab|website=www.bnl.gov|access-date=2016-08-23}}</ref>
* [[NASA Space Radiation Laboratory]], where scientists use beams of ions to simulate cosmic rays and assess the risks of space radiation to human space travelers and equipment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bnl.gov/nsrl/|title=BNL {{!}} NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL)|website=www.bnl.gov|access-date=2016-08-23}}</ref>