Projects: Physics

ALCF projects cover many scientific disciplines, ranging from biology and physics to materials science and energy technologies. Filter ongoing and past projects by allocation program, scientific domain, and year.

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 62 Million Core-Hours

High-fidelity Gyrokinetic Simulation of Tokamak and ITER Edge Physics

PI C.S. Chang, Princeton Plasma physics Laboratory
Trapped(leftcross-section)and passing(right cross-section)electronscarried inthebootstrap current of a tokamak

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 98 Million Core-Hours

Collider Physics at the Precision Frontier

PI Radja Boughezal, Argonne National Laboratory
Simulation of a vector boson plus jet event

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Domain Physics
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Global Radiation MHD Simulations of Massive Star Envelopes

PI Lars Bildsten, University of California, Santa Barbara
Global radiation hydrodynamic simulation of an 80-solar-mass star envelope

Award ADSP
Domain Physics
Hours 45 Million Core-Hours

Advancing the Scalability of LHC Workflows to Enable Discoveries at the Energy Frontier

PI Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory

Award ADSP
Domain Physics
Hours 70 Million Core-Hours

Realistic Simulations of the LSST Survey at Scale

PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 35 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Spectra with Chiral Forces

PI Alessandro Lovato, Argonne National Laboratory

Award ALCC
Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Extreme-Scale Simulations for Multi-Wavelength Cosmology Investigations

PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 135 Million Core-Hours

Nucleon Structure and Electric Dipole Moments with Physical Chirally-Symmetric Quarks

PI Sergey Syritsyn, RIKEN BNL Research Center

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Studying Astrophysical Particle Acceleration in HED Plasmas

PI Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 58 Million Core-Hours

Simulating Particle Interactions and the Resulting Detector Response at the LHC and Fermilab

PI Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory
Artist’s representation of the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider,

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

High-Fidelity Gyrokinetic Study of Divertor Heat-Flux Width and Pedestal Structure

PI Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Plasma density fluctuation from large amplitude nonlinear turbulence in the tokamak edge region, obtained from the gyrokinetic code XGC1

Award Aurora ESP
Domain Physics

Lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations for particle and nuclear physics

PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab

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Domain Physics

Extreme-Scale Cosmological Hydrodynamics

PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Baryonic density and dark matter in a large cluster of galaxies

Award Aurora ESP
Domain Physics

High-Fidelity Simulation of Fusion Reactor Boundary Plasmas

PI C.S. Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Electrostatic tokamak edge turbulence

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

PI James Vary, Iowa State University

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 million Core-Hours

PICSSAR - Particle-In-Cell Spectral Scalable Accurate Relativistic

PI Jean-Luc Vay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 147 million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulations of Laser Plasma Interaction Relevant to IFE

PI Frank Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles

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Domain Physics
Hours 54 million Core-Hours

Magnetohydrodynamic Models of Accretion Including Radiation Transport

PI James Stone, Princeton University

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Domain Physics
Hours 194 million Core-Hours

Fundamental Properties of QCD Matter Produced at RHIC and the LHC

PI Claudia Ratti, University of Houston

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Domain Physics
Hours 75 million Core-Hours

Cosmic Reionization On Computers

PI Nickolay Gnedin, Fermilab