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

High-fidelity Simulation of Tokamak Edge Plasma Transport

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

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Simulation of Large Hadron Collider Events Using Leadership Computing

PI Thomas LeCompte, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 88.7 Million Core-Hours

Composite Higgs Theory Beyond the Standard Model and the 14 TeV Upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider

PI Julius Kuti, University of California, San Diego

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Domain Physics
Hours 66 Million Core-Hours

Understanding Helium Plasma Mediated Tungsten Surface Response to Better Predict Fusion Plasma Facing Component Performance in ITER

PI Brian Wirth, University of Tennessee

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Domain Physics
Hours 90 Million Core-Hours

Validation Studies of Gyrokinetic Simulations to Understand the Coupling of Ion and Electron Scale Turbulence in Tokamak Plasmas

PI Christopher Holland, University of California, San Diego

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Cosmic Frontier Computational End‐Station

PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 350 Million Core-Hours

Ion Solvation, Catalytic Interfaces, and Extreme Aqueous Environments: An Ab Initio Study of Liquid Water

PI Robert A. DiStasio Jr., Princeton University
A systematization of a lithium atom (yellow) immersed into an aqueous environment.

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Cosmological Simulations for Large-Scale Sky Surveys

PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Large Eddy Simulation of SFR Assembly Inlets

PI Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 120 Million Core-Hours

Thermodynamics of Quark Flavors from Lattice QCD

PI Rene Bellwied, University of Houston
Display of the emission spectrum of a single heavy ion collision recorded with the ALICE detector at the LHC at a collision energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon

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Domain Physics
Hours 60 Million Core-Hours

Thermal Hydraulic Modeling: Cross-Verification, Validation, and Co-Design

PI Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory
Velocity magnitude distribution in a flow through the 25-pin swirl-vane spacer grid of Matis benchmark

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Domain Physics
Hours 200 Million Core-Hours

Simulation of Laser-Plasma Interaction in National Ignition Facility Experiments

PI Steven Langer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A volume visualization of the laser light that has been backscattered by Stimulated Raman Scattering

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Domain Physics
Hours 240 Million Core-Hours

Lattice QCD

PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
This diagram illustrates the wide range of distance scales that must be understood before the calculations of the decay of a kaon into two pions can be performed.

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Kinetic Simulations of Fusion Energy Dynamics at the Extreme Scale

PI William Tang, Princeton University
Electrostatic potential in a particle-in-cell simulation of a tokamak plasma.

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulations of Inhomogeneous Alfvén Turbulence in the Solar Wind

PI Jean C. Perez, University of New Hampshire
A snapshot of turbulent magnetic field lines (red) inside a coronal hole that expands from a small patch on the solar surface to 5 solar radii

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Domain Physics
Hours 120 Million Core-Hours

Particle Acceleration in Shocks: From Astrophysics to Laboratory In Silico

PI Frederico Fiuza, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Magnetic field generation in a collisionless shock

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

PI James Vary, Iowa State University
Slice of the translationally-invariant proton hexadecapole density of the ground state of 8Li,

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Intensity-Dependent Dynamics in Fermilab and CERN Accelerators

PI James Amundson, Fermilab

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

High-Fidelity Simulation of Tokamak Edge Plasma Transport

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

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Domain Physics
Hours 7.5 Million Core-Hours

Understanding Helium Plasma Mediated Tungsten Surface Response that Controls Plasma Facing Component Performance and Lifetime

PI Brian Wirth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory