
The Nuclear Science Division’s IDEA Council member Hannah Parrilla presented recently on Autism Awareness Month. We invite you to join in our journey of learning and understanding by viewing the presentation available here
The Nuclear Science Division’s IDEA Council member Hannah Parrilla presented recently on Autism Awareness Month. We invite you to join in our journey of learning and understanding by viewing the presentation available here
May 15, 2023 ~
In this new paper in Physical Review Letters, researchers in the SNO+ Collaboration – including Gabriel Orebi Gann (Nuclear Science Division and UC Berkeley Physics Department) and Logan Lebanowski (UC Berkeley Physics and NSD Affiliate) – have reported the first signals in a water-filled Cherenkov neutrino detector from neutrinos emitted by a nuclear reactor. Their work is featured in a recent Physics Magazine article.
April 12, 2023 ~
A new DOE Office of Science Highlight features the first experimental results from FRIB from a team led by NSD’s Heather Crawford. See also our recent News Article.
The FRIB Decay Station initiator, with the VANDLE neutron detectors on the far side and the gamma-ray detectors on the near side. These detectors were installed for the first FRIB experiment.
Image courtesy of FRIB Laboratory.
There is so much that we do not yet know about neutrinos. Neutrinos are very light, chargeless, and elusive particles that are involved in a process named beta decay and that can help us to understand the origin of matter in Universe. Beta decay is a type of radioactive decay that involves a neutron converting into a proton emitting an electron and an antineutrino.
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
Volker Koch, a Senior Scientist in the Nuclear Theory Group, has been selected as a 2023 Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals.