Featured here are recent articles highlighting research and activities in the four Physical Sciences Area divisions: Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP), Engineering, Nuclear Science, and Physics.
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Berkeley Lab co-hosts the 2023 US-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program in High Energy Physics
May 24, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Natalie Roe, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, chaired the 45th meeting of the US-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program in High Energy Physics, hosted by Berkeley Lab and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa on May 22–23, 2023, in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Since 1979, thisRead More
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Fusion Q&A: The Path Forward
May 22, 2023 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ In this recent interview, ATAP Division Director Cameron Geddes and Reed Teyber, a research scientist in ATAP’s Superconducting Magnet Program, explain how Berkeley Lab researchers are trying to make fusion energy a reality. Fusion energy is one of the biggest challenges of our time.Read More
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2023 EPS Prizes for Berkeley Lab’s Daya Bay and BOSS collaborations
May 8, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division ~ Research teams in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division had leading roles in collaborations that have been awarded two of the European Physical Society’s (EPS) 2023 High Energy Particle Physics Prizes. The Daya Bay collaboration is one of the award winners of the High Energy and Particle Physics PrizeRead More
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Berkeley Lab hosts 2023 ATLAS Masterclass in particle physics
May 5, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division ~ Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division hosted an ATLAS Masterclass on April 22, 2023, for Bay Area high school students (juniors and seniors) interested in computer software and data analysis in high energy physics experiments. The program included introductory lessons from physicists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley asRead More
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Beam Stabilization Key to Unlocking Potential of Next-Generation Accelerators
April 27, 2023 / Carl A. Williams / Berkeley Lab ATAP Division ~ Researchers from ATAP have developed a technique for stabilizing the lasers that drive plasma-based particle accelerators. The work could pave the way for the use of this technology—which offers much smaller machines—as an enabling technology for next-generation colliders and light sources, opening theRead More
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A New Design for Superconducting Magnets
April 24, 2023 / Carl A. Williams / Berkeley Lab ATAP Division ~ Researchers from the Superconducting Magnet Program at ATAP have shown how an innovative magnet design could extend the limits of current superconducting magnets, promising better-performing and more powerful devices that are cheaper to build. The work could pave the way for new superconductingRead More
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Berkeley Lab engineers design and fabricate crucial new detector structures for ATLAS
April 21, 2023 / Marsha Fenner / Berkeley Lab Engineering Division News ~ Work has started on several of the large carbon composite structures that are now arriving at Berkeley Lab to be qualified before they are integrated into the ATLAS Experiment, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Several critical elements ofRead More
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Lasers, Ions, and Silicon: Expanding the Toolkit and Building Blocks for Quantum Information Science
April 19, 2023 / Carl A. Williams / Berkeley Lab ATAP Division ~ An international team of scientists led by ATAP researchers has used intense ion pules to form tiny artificial defects in silicon crystals that could allow information to be encoded in quantum bits. The work could lay the foundations for new devices for applications inRead More
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Berkeley Lab hosts SCET 2023: 20th annual workshop on soft-collinear effective theory
April 12, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division News ~ Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division hosted SCET 2023, the 20th workshop on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, on March 27-30, 2023. Christian Bauer, who was one of the original co-developers of the soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) in 2000, organized and hosted this special anniversary event, which has been heldRead More
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Applied Nuclear Physics Program Aiding Clean-up of Cold War-Era Radioactive Contamination through Radiological Mapping
April 10, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division ~ In March 2023, scientists from NSD’s Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) program conducted handheld gamma-ray surveys of the Savannah River wetlands in order to map the intensity and spatial distribution of radioactive contaminants. Using ANP’s Scene Data Fusion (SDF) radiological mapping technology, the team identified several uraniumRead More