Dan Carney, a physicist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, has been named a Moore Foundation 2025 Experimental Physics Investigator, joining a cohort of 22 distinguished mid-career researchers who will receive 5-year funding awards ($1.3M) through the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative “to accelerate breakthroughs and strengthen the experimental physics community.”

Carney’s award will support the QuIPS (Quantum Invisible Particle Sensor) experiment, a joint project with collaborators at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and Yale University, who are using quantum-limited optical traps and state-of-the-art electron detectors to measure individual nuclear decay events. This novel technique can be used to search for new particles, make precision measurements of the beta decay spectrum, and perform many other fundamental tasks in nuclear and particle physics.

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Advancing discovery: 2025 Experimental Physics Investigators
October 8, 2025 / Moore Foundation press release