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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. Chiara Salemi and Nick Rodd are featured in this episode of Berkeley Lab's podcast, It's Elemental. (Image courtesy of Berkeley Lab Elements) Hitoshi Murayama, Fabiola Gianotti, Mike Witherell, Pier Oddone, Michael Turner, and Natalie Roe. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab) Natalie Roe introducing Ben Zevenbergen at the podium, in front of a screen on which is projected Ben's initial slide with the title of his talk. Jackly Gates and Jennifer Pore (right/background) are currently leading the search for element 120 at Berkeley Lab (Photo Credit: Marilyn Sargent, Berkeley Lab). The element 106 team at Berkeley Lab (left/inset), circa 1974. Standing left to right: Ron Logheed, Michael Nitschke, and José Alonso. Seated left to right: Mattie Nurmia, Ken Hulet, Glenn Seaborg, Al Ghiorso, and Carol Travis-Alonso. (Photo courtesy of Berkeley Lab). 2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Physics - Quanta Magazine 2024 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM finalists: (top row, left to right) Gurjyot Sethi, Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta, Ivo Marković, Lisa Schlueter, Yumary Vasquez, and Laleh Coté; (bottom row, left to right) Saurabh Sawant, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Bri Finley, Dennis Noll, Nicholas Dale, and Anne Fortman. Image Credit: Berkeley Lab Elements 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 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 KQED science and climate reporter Danielle Venton with Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Hitoshi Murayama, a senior researcher in the Physics Division and chair of the 2023 P5 Committee. FCC Week 2024 poster logo banner Group photo of the onsite participants in the 'Fundamental Physics from Future Spectroscopic Surveys' on May 6-8, 2024. Credit: Thor Swift, Berkeley Lab

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