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 180 Million Core-Hours

Lattice QCD

PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab
form factor for the decay of a kaon into a pion and two leptons

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Cosmological Simulations for Large-Scale Sky Surveys

PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 65 Million Core-Hours

Cosmic Reionization On Computers

PI Nickolay Gnedin, Fermilab
Simulation of cosmic reionization

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Domain Physics
Hours 100 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulation of Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae

PI Sean Couch, Michigan State University
Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence powered by neutrino driven convection

Award Theta ESP
Domain Physics

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Theory

PI Steven Pieper, Argonne National Laboratory
Blue Gene/Q scaling

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Domain Physics

The Hadronic Contribution to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab

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Domain Physics

Next-Generation Cosmology Simulations with HACC: Challenges from Baryons

PI Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory
Simulated cluster strong lensing image based on a large halo extracted from the Outer Rim simulation

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Domain Physics
Hours 40 Million Core-Hours

Validation Simulations of Macroscopic Burning-Plasma Dynamics

PI Jacob King, Tech-X

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Domain Physics
Hours 62 Million Core-Hours

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

PI Thomas LeCompte, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 65 Million Core-Hours

ALCC: Cosmic Frontier Computational End-Station

PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

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Domain Physics
Hours 175 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 60 Million Core-Hours

Accelerator Modeling for Discovery

PI James Amundson, Fermilab

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Domain Physics
Hours 150 Million Core-Hours

Quark Flavors and Conserved Charges at Finite Density in the QCD Phase Diagram

PI Rene Bellwied, University of Houston

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Domain Physics
Hours 80 Million Core-Hours

Cosmological Simulations for Large-Scale Sky Surveys

PI Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory
1.1 trillion particles using HACC

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Domain Physics
Hours 110 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 74 Million Core-Hours

Cosmic Reionization On Computers

PI Nickolay Gnedin, Fermilab
Numerical model of cosmic reionization

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 180 Million Core-Hours

Lattice QCD

PI Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab
form factor for the decay of a kaon into a pion and two leptons

Award INCITE
Domain Physics
Hours 90 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 100 Million Core-Hours

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

PI James Vary, Iowa State University

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Domain Physics
Hours 50 Million Core-Hours

Petascale Simulation of Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae

PI Sean Couch, California Institute of Technology
3D MHD simulations of a rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized star