Berkeley Lab
Bringing Science Solutions to the World

Nuclear Science Division

Recent News

  • NSD’s Nuclear Data Group becomes the Nuclear Data Program

    The NSD is pleased to announce the reclassification of the Nuclear Data Group in the Low-Energy Program as the Nuclear Data Program! With this change comes the appointment of Lee Bernstein as the Nuclear Data Program Head and Mathis Wiedeking as Program Deputy.

    Read More

  • 2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

    Congratulations to Physical Sciences Area staff members honored with 2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards.

    Read More

  • Passing of Rick Firestone

    It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Rick Firestone on September 9th. Rick was a titan in the nuclear data world.  In addition to his seminal work in the 8th edition of the table of isotopes, Rick was a visionary regarding the importance of neutron capture and scattering data who constantly pushed the nuclear…

    Read More

  • Fragments

    This Quarter, we celebrated service awards, new hires and promotions, and several new funding awards including a DOE Early Career Research Program award.  We also remember Frank Stephens, who sadly passed away in August.

    Read More

  • Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability Moments

    As we begin a new fiscal and academic year, here is a review of some of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability (IDEA)-related groups and activities that are taking place in NSD and across the lab. Let’s all pitch in to make the lab a fair, safe, and inclusive workplace!

    Read More

  • ALICE-USA Analysis Facility

    LBNL deploys the first US hosted LHC Analysis Facility for the ALICE experiment.

    Read More

  • Towards the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with 50Ti

    NSD researchers successfully made superheavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. That milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: 120.

    Read More

  • Director’s Corner

    In this newsletter we celebrate the receipt of a DOE Early Career Award, the success of an NSD postdoc in the Berkeley Lab Research SLAM competition, and discuss the recent breakthrough in the superheavy element program and the efforts to establish a new computing facility for ALICE at the LHC.

    Read More

  • 12th Annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts Set for Nov. 9

    Registration is open for the 12th Annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts. The event will take place on Saturday, Nov. 9. The event is hosted by Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, the Advanced Light Source, and Berkeley Lab K-12 Programs, and supported by many volunteers. Participating scouts will learn about the ABC of Nuclear Science,…

    Read More

  • NSD Research Scientist Jennifer Pore Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

    Dr. Pore’s project, “Investigating the Fundamental Properties of the Heaviest Elements,” will be at the intersection of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry and utilize LBNL’s Berkeley Gas-Filled Separator (BGS) and FIONA devices to study the physical and chemical properties of Superheavy Elements.

    Read More