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New calibration of the ‘red giant method’ improves measurement of the Hubble constant

March 22, 2023

March 22, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division News ~ In his new paper in Nature Astronomy, Taylor Hoyt – a researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division – presents a new approach to calibrating the measurement of the universe’s present day expansion rate. Hoyt, a physicist in the Supernova Cosmology Project who studies the extragalactic distanceRead More

Cosmic coding: Berkeley Lab and Argonne computational cosmologists help astronomers turn observation into insight

March 21, 2023

March 21, 2023 / DOE ASCR Discovery ~ Two new Department of Energy-sponsored telescopes, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will map cosmic structure in unprecedented detail. At Argonne and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories, teams have developed a pair of the world’s most powerful cosmological simulation codes and are readyRead More

SNO+ researchers unveil new findings: reactor neutrinos detected by water

March 15, 2023

March 15, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division News ~ In this new paper in Physical Review Letters, researchers in the SNO+ Collaboration – including Gabriel Orebi Gann (Nuclear Science Division and UC Berkeley Physics Department) and Logan Lebanowski (UC Berkeley Physics and NSD Affiliate) – have reported the first signals in a water-filled CherenkovRead More

5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI

March 13, 2023

March 13, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division ~ This new documentary film about the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) – which was recently released to planetariums worldwide and had its Bay Area premiere on March 8 – is now available in a ‘flat screen’ format for free viewing on YouTube. The film highlights recent discoveriesRead More

DOE/NSF P5 “Cosmic Frontier” Town Hall hosted at Berkeley Lab on February 22-24

March 4, 2023

March 3, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division hosted the first P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel) Town Hall on February 22-24 to launch the pivotal information-gathering phase, during which the Panel learned about the aspirations of the U.S. particle physics community. Building on the 2021 Snowmass Community Planning Exercise, P5Read More