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Enhancing Nuclear Isomer Populations Using Ultrafast Electron Beams
Researchers from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division and Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated an enhanced population of isomer states (metastable states of atomic nuclei with a different energy and half-life than other states of the same nucleus) in atomic nuclei using ultrashort electron bunches from a…
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Raúl Briceño awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Raúl Briceño, a faculty scientist in the Nuclear Theory Group awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
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Element 116 efforts featured in two articles
The recent success of efforts by staff in the Accelerator-Based Low-Energy Program to produce element 116, a critical milestone in the search for element 120, has garnered much attention.
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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.
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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.
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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…