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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Inflation Reduction Act Funds Accelerate Berkeley Lab’s Ability to Bring Science Solutions to the World
November 4, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Media Relations ~ Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division is featured in this article about new funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is accelerating the development of several critical Berkeley Lab facilities and projects – including Cosmic Microwave Background – Stage 4 (CMB-S4), the next-generation ground-based cosmicRead More
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Science in Motion: Nano-Materials to Make Better Light Sensor
October 26, 2022 / Jenny Nuss / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, is leading a collaboration with other Berkeley Lab scientists, and researchers from UC Berkeley and Sandia National Laboratories, to develop powerful light-sensing microchips. The team is leveraging their expertise in nano-materials and integratedRead More
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Proton? You Smash It to Smithereens – Then Build It Back Together With Machine Learning
October 25, 2022 / Theresa Duque / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Ben Nachman, a physicist who leads the Machine Learning Group in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division is featured in this new article from the Berkeley Lab News Center. Berkeley Lab scientists have developed new machine learning algorithms to accelerate the analysis of data collectedRead More
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Daniela Leitner elected 2022 APS Fellow
October 20, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Elements ~ Daniela Leitner, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Engineering Division and division deputy, has been elected a 2022 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. She is recognized for her work on electron cyclotron resonance ion sources that are widely used as high-charge state ion injectors for heavy ion facilities.Read More
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After Fire and Monsoons, DESI Resumes Cataloguing the Cosmos
October 7, 2022 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ DESI Director Michael Levi is featured in this article about how the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survived fire, rain, and mudslides to resume night sky observations on September 10, 2022. DESI is the heart of a next-generation sky survey that is creatingRead More
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Former Berkeley Lab Scientist John Clauser Among Three Awarded the 2022 Nobel for Physics for Work on Quantum Mechanics
October 4, 2022 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Clauser was a postdoctoral researcher atRead More
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Upgraded Laser Facility Paves the Way for Next-Generation Particle Accelerators
September 7, 2022 / Alison Hatt / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Berkeley Lab researchers have completed a major expansion of one of the world’s most powerful laser systems, creating new opportunities in accelerator research for the future of high-energy physics and other fields. The expansion created a second beamline for the petawatt laser atRead More
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Machine Learning Paves Way for Smarter Particle Accelerators
July 19, 2022 / Will Ferguson / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Daniele Filippetto, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division and deputy director of the Berkeley Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation Program (BACI) program, is featured in this article about a new machine-learning platform that makes the algorithms that controlRead More
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility
July 7, 2022 / William Schultz / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Berkeley Lab senior physicist and past LZ spokesperson Kevin Lesko is featured in this article about the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), situated deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota, where Berkeley Lab’s LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment, an innovative and uniquely sensitiveRead More
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James Strait Named Project Director of Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Project
June 2, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Media Relations ~ Berkeley Lab has selected James (Jim) Strait, a Fermilab physicist with a long history of managing large international scientific projects, to serve as the Project Director of the next-generation experiment Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4) effective on July 11. The announcement follows an international search.Read More