Physics

The physical world is governed by laws describing how matter and energy interact at scales ranging from the smallest particles to the entire universe. Physicists are using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s enormous computing power to reveal the nature of matter at its most elusive—from the behavior of the quarks, electrons, and other fundamental particles that make up atoms and everything we know, to the workings of the molecules made up of those atoms.

	High-Fidelity Simulation of Tokamak Edge Plasma Transport Principal Investigator: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 270,000,000 hours
	Linkages between Turbulence and Reconnection Kinectic Plasmas Principal Investigator: William Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory 60,000,000 hours
	Cosmological Simulations for Large-Scale Sky Survey Principal Investigator: Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory 160,000,000 hours
	Lattice QCD Principal Investigator: Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab 280,000,000 hours
	Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions Principal Investigator: James Vary, Iowa State University 204,000,000 hours
	Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions Principal Investigator: Michael Zingale, Stony Brook University 50,000,000 hours
	Targeting Cancer with High Power Lasers Principal Investigator: Michael Bussmann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf 57,000,000 hours