Berkeley Lab will host the 11th annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts this Saturday, Sept. 30. Learn how boys and girls will get hands-on experience from a cadre of volunteers, including Lab physicist Alan Poon, who was at the first event in 2009 as a way to give back to the community.
2024 DNP Dissertation Award Awarded to Evan Rule
Evan Rule, a former graduate student in the UC Berkeley Physics Department has been awarded the 2024 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics by the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Rule conducted his graduate research at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Wick Haxton who is a faculty member in the UC Berkeley Physics Department, and a Faculty Senior Scientist in LBNL’s Nuclear Science Division.
Dr. Rule, who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS), received the award “For the timely development of a flexible and fully general effective theory of muon-to-electron conversion. The formulation establishes an interface between the nuclear and particle physics components of this process that will encourage coordination between the two communities.“
Further details can be found in the APS announcement here.
New DOE funding for AI/ML projects in the Nuclear Science Division
Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division has received two Department of Energy (DOE) funding awards for two-year projects focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
A collaboration of Nuclear Science Division (NSD) scientists from the Low-Energy Nuclear Physics, 88” Cyclotron, and Applied Nuclear Physics programs will develop new methods to optimize a large gamma-ray spectrometer and an ion source for low-energy nuclear physics. The primary goal of this project is to explore the best applications of ML approaches and data analytics techniques to automate online optimization and tuning during operation, building on an existing ML project, started in 2021.
New Insights into How Strange Matter Interacts with Ordinary Matter
Scientists reported the first observations of how nuclei containing strange quarks flow from particle collisions that smash atomic nuclei together at high energies. They specifically tracked the flow patterns of so-called hypernuclei. These hypernuclei contain particles called hyperons (made of at least one strange quark) in addition to ordinary protons and neutrons (known as nucleons).
In Preparation for DUNE, Scientists Examine Modern Nuclear Theory for Neutrino Oscillation Physics
The U.S. particle physics community is preparing for a major research program with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). DUNE will study neutrino oscillations. These quantum mechanical oscillations are only possible because neutrinos have mass, albeit it very small masses. Research at DUNE will address key questions about neutrinos, such as whether they and their antineutrino counterparts behave differently.
Spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions as a barometer for fluctuation of strong force fields
Xin-Nian Wang, a senior scientist in the Nuclear Theory Group in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division (NSD), and his collaborators have recently published new research (out today in Physical Review Letters) that explains the spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions, as observed by the STAR Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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