Physics Division
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Michael Levi and Alan Poon are among five Berkeley Lab researchers elected into the 2023 class of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe
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Ben Nachman, a staff scientist and head of the Physics Division's Machine Learning Group, has been elected to an Executive Committee position in the American Physical Society (APS).
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The BELLA Center, DESI, and Berkeley Lab's ongoing collaboration with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are all highlighted in this Physics World interview with Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell
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Scott Haselschwardt and collaborators report on their discovery of low-lying isomeric states in Cesium-136, opening a new channel for detecting astrophysical neutrinos and possible dark matter candidates.
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An interview with Peter Sorensen: His Career Journey to LBNL.
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Berkeley Lab develops next generation staves and strip detector technology for HL-LHC
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The 2023 P5 Report lays out a 10-year plan for federal investments in particle physics, with support for Berkeley Lab projects including CMB-S4, DESI-II, and Spec-S5, and expanded accelerator research including superconducting magnets and test facilities like BELLA and the proposed kBELLA project.
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Daniel Carney is featured in this new "Physics Today" article about targeted small-scale tabletop experiments to search for physics beyond the standard model.
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Berkeley Lab researchers organized CosmoPalooza 2023, a webinar series showcasing the latest updates from large-scale cosmological surveys and collaborations, on October 2-5
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Mariel Pettee, a Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division, is part of Polymathic AI, a group launching a multidisciplinary AI-powered tool for scientific discovery.
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In his new opinion piece, published in APS News, Berkeley Lab physicist Ben Nachman describes "a new kind of scientist" bridging the gap between theory and experiment to search for new physics.
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CMB-S4, the experiment to capture universes earliest moments, reaches a funding milestone. The National Science Foundation has awarded up to $21.4 million for the design of the telescopes.
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Robert Cahn, Berkeley Labs former Physics Division Director, and colleague Chris Quigg have released a new book on the history of physics, Grace in All Simplicity.
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With significant contributions from researchers in Berkeley Labs Physics Division, the LZ Collaboration has recently published results that secure LZs leadership in the global race to directly detect dark matter.
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Berkeley Lab develops next generation pixel detector and readout chip technology for HL-LHC — Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, a senior staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division is a co-spokesperson for the ATLAS side of RD53
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Berkeley Lab physicist Dan Dwyer has received the 2023 APS DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award for his work on LArPix.
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The Siena Galaxy Atlas — New Map of Space Precisely Measures Nearly 400,000 Nearby Galaxies
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Modeling the Cosmic Web — Berkeley Lab scientists are analyzing the data from DESIs powerful telescopes to view the universe as its never been seen before.
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Berkeley Lab develops graph neural network applications to enable the first observation of four top quark production
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CMB-S4 announces L2 and L3 management changes for the detectors subsystem
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Ben Nachman, a staff scientist in Berkeley Labs Physics Division, co-organized the 15th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders BOOST 23
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Berkeley Lab's Physics Division hosted its seventeenth QuarkNet Physics in and Through Cosmology Workshop on June 20-30, 2023 aimed at an audience of high school students and teachers.
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In an article published in the CERN EP Newsletter, Ben Nachman — a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division — briefly discusses recent measurements of jet substructure (JSS) that probe the fundamental and emergent properties of the strong force in new ways.
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A team of engineers and scientists in Berkeley Lab's Engineering and Physics Divisions have conceived, developed, and built a prototype 3D pixelated detection system for DUNE, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
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Quantum simulation of fundamental particles and forces
June 21, 2023 / Christian Bauer et al / Nature Reviews Physics -
The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to mine. Taken during the experiments survey validation phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way
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