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- CUORE Team Places New Limits on the Bizarre Behavior of Neutrinos
Researchers at the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) announced this week that they had placed some of the most stringent limits yet on the strange possibility that the neutrino is its own antiparticle. CUORE has spent the last three years patiently waiting to see evidence of a distinctive… Read more » - Berkeley Lab Researchers, Computational Facilities Play Key Role in Barrier-Breaking Neutrino Mass Measurement
An international research team that includes Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists has established a new upper limit of 0.8 electron volts (eV) for the mass of the neutrino, a milestone that will bear on future discoveries in nuclear and particle physics, and cosmology. The post Berkeley Lab Researchers,… Read more » - Reiner Kruecken to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division
Reiner Kruecken, a nuclear physicist and Deputy Director for Research at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator center, has been selected to serve as the next Division Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) Nuclear Science Division. His appointment will be effective in May. The announcement follows an international search. The… Read more » - Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive AAAS Fellowship
Three staff researchers and one affiliate have been elected into the 2021 class of the American Association for the Advancement of Science The post Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive AAAS Fellowship appeared first on News Center. Read more » - Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensional galaxy surveys, creating the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever. The post Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Creates Largest 3D Map of… Read more » - How Can Next-Gen Computer Chips Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?
Berkeley Lab scientists Maurice Garcia-Sciveres and Ramamoorthy Ramesh discuss how future microchips could perform better – and require less energy – than silicon. Over the next three years, they will lead two of the 10 projects recently awarded nearly $54 million by the Department of Energy to increase energy efficiency… Read more » - Cracking Open Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamics
Berkeley Lab’s researchers’ unique capabilities aided international effort to probe fundamental questions in physics The post Cracking Open Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamics appeared first on News Center. Read more » - How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid
Scientists have reported new clues to solving a cosmic conundrum: How the quark-gluon plasma – nature’s perfect fluid – evolved into the building blocks of matter during the birth of the early universe. The post How to Catch a Perfect Wave: Scientists Take a Closer Look Inside the Perfect Fluid… Read more » - Unprecedented Plasma Lensing for High-Intensity Lasers
New research on plasma lensing at BELLA helps confirm laser plasma accelerators can be scaled up as BELLA Center pushes toward higher energies The post Unprecedented Plasma Lensing for High-Intensity Lasers appeared first on News Center. Read more » - Is Gravity a Quantum Force?
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have proposed an experiment that may settle the persistent question: Is gravity truly a quantum force? The post Is Gravity a Quantum Force? appeared first on News Center. Read more »
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