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Supporting DOE’s Genesis Mission

ALT: Two researchers in the background of a beamline laboratory look toward a computer with colorful microtomography imagery. A researcher is in the foreground making adjustments to an experimental setup.

Made in Berkeley Lab: the plasma chamber at the heart of heavy ion accelerators

An up close view of the flange for the fourth-generation VENUS plasma chamber. The device was made in-house by the Engineering Division’s highly skilled technicians. Credit: Kris Pearson, Berkeley Lab

Senajith “Seno” Rekawa awarded ASPE 2025 Distinguished Service Award

Berkeley Lab Engineer Senajith “Seno” Rekawa (right) accepts the American Society of Precision Engineering (ASPE) 2025 Distinguished Service Award from Stuart Smith, Professor and President of ASPE, at a ceremony held on November 6 in San Diego, California. Credit: Senajith Rekawa

Micro Journeys Podcast: Inside Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron

Jacklyn Gates, a Berkeley Lab nuclear scientist whose team is leading the search for element 120, explains the process of superheavy element discovery at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. From left to right: Dan Marrujo, Jacklyn Gates, and Larry Phair.

Stars Forge Elements in a Way We’re Only Beginning to Understand

Person standing next to lab equipment

Celebrating the life and work of Denis Peterson

Denis Peterson in his signature hat. Courtesy of the Peterson Family

CUORE Probes Lepton Number Violation with 2 tonne-year Dataset

research scientist examines a crystal of the CUORE detector, an array of 19 towers containing nearly 1000 cryogenic calorimeters. The copper support structures provide strong thermal coupling to the CUORE cryostat (not shown), which maintains the detector close to absolute zero (0.010 K). (Credit: CUORE Collaboration)

Machine Learning Methods Used to Control and Optimize the VENUS Ion Source

VENUS ion source with an imagined computer as operator. (Credit: LBNL, Google Gemini, and Damon Todd)

Quest for Tritium Detection with Scientific CCDs Fueled by Deep Learning

CCD in cryostat at LBNL, preparing for detection of tritium (Credit: Berkeley Lab Nuclear Science Division)

Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In the trap, chlorine anions are reflected back and forth between two electrostatic ion mirrors, allowing the laser beam (pink) to probe the anions for much longer than in conventional measurements. The laser frequency is tuned to find the exact photon energy above which the extra electron (small white circle) is removed from the anion. (Image: MIRACLS collaboration)

Scouts Explore the Quantum World at Berkeley Lab’s 13th Annual Nuclear Science Day

The team of experts who hosted the "Detector Expo" of advanced radiation detectors pictured with Spot, the radiation-mapping robot dog. (Credit: Dallar Babaian, Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab celebrates 2025 Dark Matter Day at the Chabot Space and Science Center

Dan Kodroff shows a young visitor the vast unknown scale of dark matter masses. Credit: Emily Perry, Berkeley Lab

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