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$13-Million Contribution Enables
Full RHIC Run in FY06
Upton, NY, January 13: A group of partners at
Renaissance Technologies Corporation and members of the Board of Directors of
Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) have made a remarkably generous contribution
to the Stony Brook Foundation. The Stony Brook Foundation plans to use this
contribution to enter into a Work for Others agreement with BSA to enable the
operation of RHIC (the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) this fiscal year.
Statement from Praveen Chaudhari, Director, RHIC:
The Work for Others agreement between the Stony
Brook Foundation and BSA, which we expect will be concluded very soon, will
enable RHIC to continue to explore the smallest known pieces of matter-the tiny
quarks and gluons that make up protons and neutrons-and how they interact.
All of us at Brookhaven Lab, including the 1,000
visiting scientists and students who collaborate on world-class science at RHIC,
greatly appreciate the generosity and leadership of Jim and the Renaissance
group in raising the $13-million contribution to the Stony Brook Foundation. He
has done a great service for the Laboratory and the science community.
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has
given Brookhaven National Laboratory very strong support for RHIC, and the
international headlines garnered by RHIC science every year are in large measure
the result of DOE's commitment to funding nuclear physics. In the light of
budget constraints, DOE had planned to fund 12 weeks of RHIC operations in FY06,
but unexpected increases in electric power costs had made this limited level of
operation impossible. Now, with the $13-million contribution to the Stony Brook
Foundation and the planned Work for Others agreement between the Stony Brook
Foundation and BSA, the Laboratory will be able to operate RHIC for a full 20
weeks. This run should begin in early February.
I also recognize the solid commitment to the
Laboratory from Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer and from Congressman
Tim Bishop, who have worked tirelessly on behalf of Brookhaven Lab.
All of us are looking forward to more exciting and intriguing results from RHIC.
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