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College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences

Bringing the Beautiful Data of the Electron-Ion Collider to Life

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY - Pixels and particles collide, thanks to a pioneering student’s idea to mesh the world of video game technology with real-world physics. Sean Preins, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), has developed a customizable virtual reality program called VIRTUE, or...
By Amber Aponte | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
VIRTUE Diagram

When particles collide: Professor Miguel Arratia talks physics and the Electron Ion Collider

Miguel Arratia, Assistant Professor of Physics at the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), conceives and designs detectors for experiments for the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) in Upton, NY, which was developed to uncover the mysteries that bind the atomic nucleus together. The U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Science Advisory Committee has...