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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability Moments
In September 2022, Jayson Vavrek, a postdoctoral researcher within the Applied Nuclear Physics program, gave a presentation at the NSD staff meeting about the need to consider the choice of colors when creating figures and other graphics so that we can better include those who are colorblind or are affected by another form of color vision deficiency (CVD). Measurements vary, but approximately 2–10% of men and 0.1–3% of women have some form of CVD, so a substantial proportion of your audience (roughly 5%) may have some difficulty perceiving color.
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NSD Theory Group researchers receive DOE funding awards for topical theory collaborations in nuclear physics
Researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Theory Group, part of the Nuclear Science Division (NSD), have received DOE funding support for topical theory collaborations in nuclear physics. Theory Group researchers will be involved in all of the five project teams chosen to receive awards as part of this program.
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Agnieszka Sorensen receives 2023 APS Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Agnieszka Sorensen, who carried out a substantial amount of her research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) under the supervision of NSD’s Volker Koch, has received the American Physical Society’s 2023 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics for her work using an innovative approach to study the speed of sound in dense nuclear matter.
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Nuclear Science Division’s New Division Deputy, Science
Dr. Reynold (Ren) Cooper, Staff Scientist and Deputy Program Head of the Applied Nuclear Physics Program, announced as new Division Deputy of Science for the Nuclear Science Division
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Former Berkeley Lab Scientist John Clauser Among Three Awarded the 2022 Nobel for Physics for Work on Quantum Mechanics
Clauser’s work with NSD’s Stuart Freedman in the early 1970s helped lay the groundwork for conventional quantum mechanics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” Read […]
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Dawn of a New Era in Neutrino Detection Technology
Monolithic optical detectors have a long history of success in neutrino physics, from water Cherenkov detectors such as Super-Kamiokande and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, to liquid scintillator detectors such as Borexino, KamLAND, and Daya Bay. While those two worlds have existed in parallel for decades, the next generation of detectors is about to exploit the best of both worlds by detecting Cherenkov and scintillation signals simultaneously. In the past, Prof. Orebi Gann and her team at the Berkeley Lab have made critical advances towards this goal by researching novel photon detectors and liquid scintillators such as the water-based liquid scintillator developed at Brookhaven National Lab. Using the CHESS [1] setup at the Lab, the team was able to achieve a separation of Cherenkov and scintillation light in both pure liquid scintillator (LS) and water-based liquid scintillator (WbLS) utilizing ultra-fast light detectors.
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LHC and LHC experiments recommissioning – First collisions since 2018
The Large Hadron Collider is emerging from Long Shutdown #2. This three-year break in the operations schedule was spent on intensive work to improve the accelerator performance (e.g. new and more powerful intensity setup, in particular) and upgrades to the detectors. LBNL scientists from the Nuclear Science and Physics divisions worked on two of these […]
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NSD Teaching Scholar to be Recognized
Teaching Scholars Lisa Claus (Applied Math & Comp Sci) and Rebecca Carney (Nuclear Science), who have completed over 100 hours of service dedicated to various K-12 programs and Career Pathways Office professional development activities, will be honored during the Teaching Scholars Recognition Event on Nov. 2.
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88-Inch Cyclotron accelerates titanium for heavy-element search
Many of the superheavy elements discovered in the last few decades were produced by bombarding heavy-element targets with high-current beams of neutron-rich isotopes like 48Ca. We need ion beams of yet-more-massive neutron-rich elements to extend the periodic table further using similar methods. The Ion Source Group in Building 88 has been using the superconducting electron […]
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In Memoriam – Art Poskanzer
Art Poskanzer, Distinguished Senior Scientist Emeritus in the Nuclear Science Division at LBNL, died peacefully at home on June 30 after a long illness, two days after his 90th birthday. Art was an outstanding scientist, who maintained an active research career for over sixty years. He began his career as a nuclear chemist at Brookhaven National […]
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ANP Article Featured in PRR
The Applied Nuclear Physics Program recently had an article, “Determining urban material activities with a vehicle-based multi-sensor system”, featured in Physical Review Research (PRR).