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.

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulation of Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae

PI Sean Couch, Michigan State University

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 million Core-Hours

Collider Physics at the Precision Frontier

PI Radja Boughezal

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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

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Domain Physics
Hours 52 million Core-Hours

The Rate of Spontaneous Plasma Reconnection

PI Andrey Beresnyak, Naval Research Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Simulations of Laser Experiments to Study the Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields

PI Petros Tzeferacos, University of Chicago

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Domain Physics
Hours 55 Million Core-Hours

Exploring Higgs Compositeness Mechanism in the Era of the 14 TeV LHC

PI George Fleming, Yale University

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Domain Physics
Hours 180 Million Core-Hours

Hadronic Light-­by-­Light Scattering Contribution to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment from Lattice QCD with Chiral Fermions

PI Thomas Blum, University of Connecticut

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Domain Physics
Hours 120 Million Core-Hours

61-­Pin Wire-­Wrap Turbulent Conjugate-­Heat Transfer: V&V for Industry and SESAME

PI Elia Merzari, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 66 Million Core-Hours

Muon g − 2 Hadronic Vacuum Polarization from Lattice QCD

PI John Laiho, Syracuse University

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows in Advanced Steam Generators

PI Aleksandr Obabko, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 93.5 Million Core-Hours

An End-­Station for Intensity and Energy Frontier Experiments and Calculations

PI Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 6 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Structure for Tests of Fundamental Symmetries and Astroparticle Physics

PI Calvin Johnson, San Diego State University

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Domain Physics
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Ab Initio Modeling of the Dynamical Stability of HED Plasmas: From Fusion to Astrophysics

PI Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

High-­Intensity Multibunch Physics in the Fermilab Accelerator Complex

PI James Amundson, Fermilab

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Extreme-Scale Gyrokinetic Particle Simulations to Complete the 2016 OFES National Theory/Simulation Performance Target and to Study the Fundamental Edge Physics

PI Choong-­Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

PI James Vary, Iowa State University
Projections of the 3D dynamic spontaneous fission path

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Domain Physics
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours

Kinetic Simulations of Relativistic Radiative Magnetic Reconnection

PI Dmitri Uzdensky, University of Colorado, Boulder
This visualization shows the increased plasma density inside flux ropes

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulations of Laser Plasma Interaction Relevant to IFE

PI Frank Tsung, University of California, Los Angeles
Ex-field at two different times showing the evolution of a nonlinear electron plasma wave in an SRS simulation using OSIRIS

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Domain Physics
Hours 47 Million Core-Hours

Magnetohydrodynamic Models of Accretion Including Radiation Transport

PI James Stone, Princeton University
Snapshot of the global structure of a radiation-dominated accretion flow around a black hole computed using the Athena++ code

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Fundamental Properties of QCD Matter produced at RHIC and the LHC

PI Claudia Ratti, University of Houston
The image illustrates how protons, neutrons, and other hadrons formed from quarks and gluons during the QCD transition as the universe expanded