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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Volker Koch honored as a 2023 Physics Review ‘Outstanding Referee’
March 1, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division News ~ Volker Koch, a Senior Scientist in the Nuclear Theory Group of Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, has been selected as a 2023 Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals. Honorees are chosen by the American Physical Society (APS) journal editors in appreciation for the essentialRead More
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How LDRD Supported the Development of Simulations for Next-Generation Accelerator Technology
February 28, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Research News ~ This new article features Jean-Luc Vay, a senior physicist in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division (ATAP), and how Berkeley Lab’s LDRD (Laboratory Directed Research & Development) program has supported his team’s development of WarpX, a cutting-edge software platform developed under Vay’s leadership within DOE’s ExascaleRead More
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New DESI planetarium show to premier in 2023
February 27, 2023 / Marsha Fenner / Berkeley Lab News Center~ This spring, a stunning new documentary film featuring recent discoveries from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will be released to planetariums worldwide. 5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI is a new feature-length planetarium show created in collaboration with DESI‘s consortium of worldwideRead More
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STAR Collaboration researchers report that QGP production ‘turns off’ at low energy
February 24, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division News ~ Physicists in the STAR Collaboration have recently reported new evidence that production of an exotic state of matter in collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) – an atom-smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory – canRead More
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Searches for Massive Neutrinos with Mechanical Quantum Sensors
February 14, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physics Division News ~ In a new publication in PRX Quantum, Berkeley Lab quantum physicist Daniel Carney and colleagues propose a new method to search for invisible particles – so-called sterile neutrinos – by using a radioactive glass nanoparticle suspended in laser light. In addition to the three neutrino species—whoseRead More
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New ‘Frontier’ Exascale Supercomputer to host ‘ExaStar’ and other modeling projects for fundamental research
February 10, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division News ~ Daniel Kasen, an astrophysicist in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division and UC Berkeley’s Physics Department, is featured in this new Scientific American article about new projects currently under way on the ‘Frontier’ exascale computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Kasen leads ExaStar, a projectRead More
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NSD researchers complete MVTX vertex detector assembly for the sPHENIX experiment at Brookhaven
February 10, 2023 / Grazyna Odyniec / Berkeley Lab Nuclear Sciences Division News ~ Scientists from the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions (RNC) program in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division recently completed the assembly of the MVTX vertex detector, which will be installed in the center of sPHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The sPHENIX detector,Read More
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ECP-funded “WarpX” project takes plasma accelerator modeling to new heights
February 2, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences News ~ This new article features the international research team led by Jean-Luc Vay, senior scientist and head of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Modeling Program (AMP) in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division, who have spent the last 6 years creating WarpX, a novel, highly parallel andRead More
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Lost Video of Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang, Recovered
January 26, 2023 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ European broadcast network VRT found a 20-minute recording that is thought to be the only video of Lemaître. His interview, originally aired in 1964 and conducted in French, has now been transcribed and translated into English by Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, a physicistRead More
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Nu Xu receives 2022 Humboldt Research Award
January 19, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Nu Xu, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division (NSD), has received a prestigious 2022 Humboldt Research Award. Xu plans to use this opportunity to spend time in Germany collaborating with colleagues there studying the QCD properties of nuclear matter. Xu’s research in NSD’sRead More