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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Bay Area premiere of planetarium show ‘5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI’
April 7, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division News ~ 5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI, a new planetarium show about the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), recently had its Bay Area premiere at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA, on March 8. This short video highlights the evening’s special guest speakersRead More
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Exploring Machine Learning at VENUS
April 5, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division ~ In 2021, a collaboration of NSD scientists from the Applied Nuclear Physics, Low-Energy Nuclear Physics, and the 88” Cyclotron programs received funding through a DOE Office of Science FOA for “Data Analytics for Autonomous Optimization and Control of Accelerators and Detectors” to explore application of machineRead More
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A New Dimension to the Jet-induced Mach Cone in the Subatomic QGP Droplets
April 3, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division ~ In a recent Physical Review Letters article, Xin-Nian Wang from NSD’s Nuclear Theory program and his collaborators explored the 3D structure of the jet-induced Mach cone excitation in Pb+Pb collisions at LHC through theoretical simulations of the jet transport inside a hydrodynamically expanding QGP. They found thatRead More
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Darleane Hoffman receives Enrico Fermi Presidential Award
March 28, 2023 / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ President Biden has named Darleane Hoffman – a pioneering nuclear chemist who joined Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division in 1984 as a faculty senior scientist – a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed byRead More
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Three Questions for Jessica Aguilar
March 28, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Elements ~ Mechanical engineer Jessica Aguilar is a Dallas native, who worked in the defense, biosciences, and semiconductor industries before joining Berkeley Lab’s Engineering Division six-and-a-half years ago as a manufacturing and procurement coordinator. “Before I applied, I did some research and learned that Berkeley Lab builds one-of-a-kind science instruments,Read More
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New calibration of the ‘red giant method’ improves measurement of the Hubble constant
March 22, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division News ~ In his new paper in Nature Astronomy, Taylor Hoyt – a researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division – presents a new approach to calibrating the measurement of the universe’s present day expansion rate. Hoyt, a physicist in the Supernova Cosmology Project who studies the extragalactic distanceRead More
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Cosmic coding: Berkeley Lab and Argonne computational cosmologists help astronomers turn observation into insight
March 21, 2023 / DOE ASCR Discovery ~ Two new Department of Energy-sponsored telescopes, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will map cosmic structure in unprecedented detail. At Argonne and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories, teams have developed a pair of the world’s most powerful cosmological simulation codes and are readyRead More
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SNO+ researchers unveil new findings: reactor neutrinos detected by water
March 15, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division News ~ In this new paper in Physical Review Letters, researchers in the SNO+ Collaboration – including Gabriel Orebi Gann (Nuclear Science Division and UC Berkeley Physics Department) and Logan Lebanowski (UC Berkeley Physics and NSD Affiliate) – have reported the first signals in a water-filled CherenkovRead More
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5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI
March 13, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division ~ This new documentary film about the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) – which was recently released to planetariums worldwide and had its Bay Area premiere on March 8 – is now available in a ‘flat screen’ format for free viewing on YouTube. The film highlights recent discoveriesRead More
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DOE/NSF P5 “Cosmic Frontier” Town Hall hosted at Berkeley Lab on February 22-24
March 3, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division hosted the first P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel) Town Hall on February 22-24 to launch the pivotal information-gathering phase, during which the Panel learned about the aspirations of the U.S. particle physics community. Building on the 2021 Snowmass Community Planning Exercise, P5Read More