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Category: Nuclear Science

Micro Journeys Podcast: Inside Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron

Jacklyn Gates, a Berkeley Lab nuclear scientist whose team is leading the search for element 120, explains the process of superheavy element discovery at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. From left to right: Dan Marrujo, Jacklyn Gates, and Larry Phair.

Stars Forge Elements in a Way We’re Only Beginning to Understand

Person standing next to lab equipment

Determining Matter Distribution Inside the Nucleons

A graphic illustration with a large pink circle at lower-center, with a thick red-line outline and several different shapes/colors floating in it. There's a squiggly line at top-right, and a blue outlined blob top right, and inbetween 2 blue balls with lines linking the 2 floating items at the top.

After Dark: Modern Methods of Visualizing Nuclear Radiation

Ren Cooper talks with 'After Dark' participants at San Francisco's Exploratorium. (Credit: Jayson Vavrek)

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.

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