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  • Fragments

    Staff and students from the Applied Nuclear Physics (ANP) program attended the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference in Milan in November.  The meeting is the largest annual radiation instrumentation conference.  Members of ANP and affiliated graduate students delivered a total of 19 presentations. Nu Xu, from NSD’s Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program has […]

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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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  • Scintillator Research Group moves to NSD

    The LBNL Scintillator Research Group, formerly part of the Material Sciences Division, has joined the Nuclear Science Division. This move creates new opportunities for the development of novel radiation detection systems for a range of applications from basic science to nuclear security and medical imaging. The detection of ionizing radiation underpins many applications that cover […]

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  • Diquarks in Nuclei: A Quantum Chromodynamics Basis for nearly 20% of Nuclear Structure

    In a January 2023 publication by nuclear theory postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Rittenhouse West, a quantum chromodynamics (QCD) bond between quarks from different nucleons is proposed as the cause of short-range correlated pairs in nuclei – a fundamental particle physics explanation for roughly 20% of nuclear structure. Nuclei were found to have their own internal structure […]

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  • Director’s Corner

    2022 has been an eventful year for the Nuclear Science Division with many successes in science, funding, awards, and advancements of major projects.

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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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  • Fragments

    NSD held a Staff Appreciation Lunch on September 13th.  The event provided an opportunity for members of the Division to meet in-person for lunch, meet new Division Director Reiner Kruecken, and for the Division leadership to show their appreciation of the staff. NSD hosted the first post-pandemic in-person KamLAND Collaboration meeting from August 31 to […]

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