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Making Science: Inside Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Aerial view of Berkeley Lab's Machine Shop floor. Credit: Make Magazine

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for High-Impact Science

An artistic rendition of a data center where the components of a supercomputer are housed. (Credit: jamesteohart, Shutterstock) – ALT: A dark corridor with faint lights glowing from devices on the walls leads to an open doorway glowing bright white.

GRETA Dedication: Celebrating a Decade of GRETINA Science

GRETA Project Director Paul Fallon and Berkeley Lab's Deputy Director for Research Carol Burns stand in between GRETA's detector hemispheres to conduct the "ribbon cutting" ceremony while several key people involved in the inception, delivery, and future use of GRETA join the celebration. On the left side of the photo (from left to right) are Sergio Zimmermann (former project manager for GRETA from Berkeley Lab’s Engineering Division, now retired), Thomas Glasmacher (FRIB Laboratory Director), Marie-Agnes Deleplanque (a former Berkeley Lab senior staff scientist and Nuclear Structure Group lead, now retired), and Natalie Roe, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director for the Physical Sciences. On the right side (from left to right) are I-Yang Lee (a former senior staff scientist in the Nuclear Structure Group, now retired), GRETA Deputy Project Director Heather Crawford, and Nuclear Science Division Director Reiner Kruecken. Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab

3Q4: Hannah Parrilla and Autism Acceptance Month

Hannah Parrilla, 3Q4 banner image

Direct neutrino-mass measurement based on 259 days of KATRIN data

The KATRIN beamline. Tritium gas is continuously injected into the source, where it decays, producing β-electrons. (Inset) The source volume, filled with a plasma of low-energy electrons and tritiated ions. The tritium gas is pumped out, purified, and recirculated, whereas the electrons are guided magnetically through the transport section into the spectrometer. Only electrons with sufficient energy to overcome the electrostatic potential in the analyzing plane are counted at the detector. The analyzing plane is shifted toward the detector for background reduction.

ATLAS and ALICE collaborations receive 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Left: One of the early collision events with stable beams recorded by ATLAS on April 23, 2016, with two reconstructed muon candidates (Image: CERN). Right: Lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider at 5.02TeV per nucleon pair in the center of mass, recorded by the ALICE detector in 2018 (Image: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato and Tapan Nayak). Background: Breakthrough Prize logo (Image: Breakthrough Prize Foundation).

Berkeley Lab’s Role in Unraveling the Universe’s Origins with ALICE

The ALICE Experiment at the LHC. Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab IT

Enhancing Nuclear Isomer Populations Using Ultrafast Electron Beams

ATAP BELLA Center Senior Scientist and Deputy of Theory Carl Schroeder, University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor Lee Bernstein, BELLA Center Postdoctoral Scholar Robert Jacob, and BELLA Center Senior Scientist and Deputy of Experiments Jeroen van Tilborg in BELLA's petawatt laser area. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer/Berkeley Lab)

GRETA Demonstrates Key Performance Parameters

Subset of germanium detectors installed for performance tests of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), the world’s most sensitive gamma-ray spectrometer that will be used at FRIB for studies of nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics.Credit: Heather Crawford, Berkeley Lab

Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive PECASE Award

Caption: From left: Raúl Briceño, Stefan Wild, and Ahmet Kusoglu. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab. ALT: Three people in circular frames on a gradient background, all smiling.

Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2024

Berkeley Lab News Center feature image montage. Credit: Jenny Nuss, Berkeley Lab

Experiment could open door to new element discoveries

Jacklyn Gates (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group) at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, BGS, in Building 88 on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Experts in the Nuclear Science Division use the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116, livermorium. Photographer: Marilyn Sargent

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