## Recent research highlights

Jefferson Lab Highlight, 2020-08-18

Antoni Woss earned JSA’s 2019 Thesis Prize for exploring the theory underpinning the properties of subatomic particles and how they can decay.

### Summit speeds calculations in the search for exotic particles

OLCF Highlight, 2018-09-17

The accelerated architecture of America’s fastest supercomputer boosts QCD simulations

### Exploring the Exotic World of Quarks and Gluons at the Dawn of the Exascale

Jefferson Lab Highlights, 2017-10-11

### Jefferson Lab–NVIDIA Collaboration Uses Titan to Boost Subatomic Particle Research

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Highlights, 2016-12-07

Team exploits supercomputer parallelism for computational Quantum Chromodynamics. Robert Edwards serves as the principal investigator on a project that uses computation to inform the GlueX experiment as well as corroborate experimental findings. To that end the team has been using the Titan supercomputer at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

### The Ins and Outs of QCD

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Highlights, 2015-07-07

JLab team uses Titan to investigate exotic mesons. Last year, they were awarded an Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) allocation to run lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) calculations that can accurately analyze the interactions between quarks and gluons in a vacuum across both space and time.

### Titan Project Explores the Smallest Building Blocks of Matter

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Highlights, 2014-03-18

Excited particles help explain the universe. A team from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Virginia is working to deepen our understanding of quarks, enlisting the help of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer.

### Porting to GPUs en masse

Science Node, 2011-06-15

Researchers worldwide have access to a growing library of Quantum Chromodynamics software that has been ported to run on graphics processing units, thanks to the efforts of a handful of researchers. Using a cluster of 200 GPUs, the hadspec collaboration were able to compute for the first time the highly 'excited' spectra generated by a type of bound quark states - also known as sub-atomic particles - called "exotic isoscalar mesons." In particular, they predicted the mass of a particle that, if confirmed in experiments, suggests that quarks and the "glue" that holds them together are bound in a way that has never before been seen.