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Category: Nuclear Science

Researchers Demonstrate Robotic Inspection for Nuclear Safeguards

Karthika Balan (ANP) operates a SPOT robot dog equipped with an ANP-developed multi-sensor system. Photo credit: NSD News

GRETA Makes Its First Move

Left: The first half assembly being craned down and through the double doors to the K-area at Bldg. 88. Center: The first of the two GRETA mechanical assemblies being slid over on dedicated gantry cranes onto the prepared mounting surface. Right: The final pair of installed GRETA mechanical assemblies in the K-area at Bldg. 88. Credit: NSD News

Half-life of 71Ge and the Gallium Anomaly

Results from all reported measurements of the 71Ge half- life since 1985. NSD News

Coherent Photoproduction Probes Kaon Couplings

The transverse momentum (pT, left) and daikon mass (right) spectra for the ALICE event sample. The pT spectrum shows that the production is coherent over the entire target. The production rate is above expectations from the ϕ meson alone. NSD News

Wick Haxton elected to the American Philosophical Society

Wick Haxton

Gabriel Orebi Gann receives 2024 ICFA Instrumentation Early Career Award

Photo of Gabriel Orebi Gann

Xin-Nian Wang receives 2024 Humboldt Research Award

Xin-Nian Wang

Superheavy Elements Are Breaking the Periodic Table

2024-0514 - Pappas - SciAm feature image by Quarternative

NERSC aids hunt for cracks in Standard Model

A researcher adjusts a detector deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, the array of sensors used by the Majorana Collaboration to search for particle-level violations of the Standard Model. Credit: Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility

Five Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

From left to right: Michael Levi, Jian-Hua Mao, Trent Northen, Alan Poon, and Sayeef Salahuddin. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab’s Engineering and Nuclear Science Divisions host ‘High School STEM Day’ activities on March 20

Rick Bloemhard, an electronics associate in the Engineering Division, discussed the GRETA (Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array) project, which is currently under construction at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. (Photo by Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab)

A Bayesian approach to free-moving radiation mapping with a single detector

NSD News Rad Mapping image - April 2024

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