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Category: Nuclear Science

CUORE Probes Lepton Number Violation with 2 tonne-year Dataset

research scientist examines a crystal of the CUORE detector, an array of 19 towers containing nearly 1000 cryogenic calorimeters. The copper support structures provide strong thermal coupling to the CUORE cryostat (not shown), which maintains the detector close to absolute zero (0.010 K). (Credit: CUORE Collaboration)

Machine Learning Methods Used to Control and Optimize the VENUS Ion Source

VENUS ion source with an imagined computer as operator. (Credit: LBNL, Google Gemini, and Damon Todd)

Quest for Tritium Detection with Scientific CCDs Fueled by Deep Learning

CCD in cryostat at LBNL, preparing for detection of tritium (Credit: Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division)

Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In the trap, chlorine anions are reflected back and forth between two electrostatic ion mirrors, allowing the laser beam (pink) to probe the anions for much longer than in conventional measurements. The laser frequency is tuned to find the exact photon energy above which the extra electron (small white circle) is removed from the anion. (Image: MIRACLS collaboration)

Scouts Explore the Quantum World at Berkeley Lab’s 13th Annual Nuclear Science Day

The team of experts who hosted the "Detector Expo" of advanced radiation detectors pictured with Spot, the radiation-mapping robot dog. (Credit: Dallar Babaian, Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab Hosts ALICE Grid Operations Review Meeting

The ALICE Experiment at the LHC. Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab IT

2025 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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New Data Release from CUORE Features a “Noise-Canceling” Algorithm

The CUORE detector has 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. Credit: Yury Suvorov/CUORE collaboration. Alt text: Close-up view of an array of cubic, pale crystals held in a copper framework. The structure is composed of multiple repeating units arranged in a symmetrical, grid-like pattern, with small white spacers at the intersections.

Visiting Antarctica in service of science

Berkeley Lab Electronics Engineer Thorsten Stezelberger places an antenna in a hole in the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Credit: Spencer Klein, Berkeley Lab

Gabriel Orebi Gann, Jeroen van Tilborg, and Mathis Wiedeking elected 2025 APS Fellows

Gabriel Orebi Gann, Jeroen van Tilborg and Mathis Wiedeking. Credits: Left: AJ Gubser, UC Berkeley. Center: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab. Right: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab.

Remembering Darleane Hoffman

Darleane Hoffman with the Periodic Table of Elements that were discovered at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)

More Signs of Phase-change ‘Turbulence’ in Nuclear Matter

The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory) Alt text: Pipes and cables on the exterior of the large blue STAR detector.

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