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Category: Physical Sciences

Missing Baryons Found in Far-Out Reaches of Galactic Halos

Photo - A new study has found that a share of particles that has gone missing is most likely located at the distant bounds of galaxy haloes. The study found some of these particles of baryonic matter located about 6 million light-years from their galactic centers. This color-rendered image shows the halo of the Andromeda galaxy, which is the Milky Way’s largest galactic neighbor. (Credit: NASA)

U.S. Magnet Development Project for CERN Particle Collider Upgrade Moves Forward

Photo - The HL-LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project magnets use conductors made of niobium-tin to generate a stronger magnetic field compared to predecessor technology. These world-record-setting magnets will have their debut in the HL-LHC: Its run will be the first time that U.S.-built niobium-tin magnets will be used in a particle accelerator for particle physics research. (Credit: Dan Cheng/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Monitoring Capabilities Still in Use 10 Years After Fukushima Earthquake and Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

Image - A 3D cesium-137 contamination map in a bamboo forest in the Fukushima region obtained in 2017. This map was produced within 15 minutes using Berkeley Lab’s Scene Data Fusion technologies. The technologies provide detailed information about radioisotope-specific contamination critical in assessing the radiation and in guiding decontamination efforts, as well as making radiation “visible” in three dimensions to aid the understanding of citizens and communities. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

A Day in the Half-Life

A collage of a telescope over a orange, star-filled sky

Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change ‘Turbulence’ in RHIC Collisions

Image - The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. (Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Researchers Hunt for New Particles in Particle Collider Data

Photo – CERN's ATLAS detector undergoes upgrades in preparation for its next round of particle physics experiments, which is scheduled to begin in 2022.

National Labs Band Together to Build Prototype Magnet for Future and Existing Light Sources

Photo - This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories. The next step will be to build a meter-long version and install it at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne. (Credit: Ibrahim Kesgin/Argonne National Laboratory)

Advisory Committee Releases Strategic Plan for U.S. Fusion, Plasma Program

Photo - This BELLA HTT laser system enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Applying Quantum Computing to a Particle Process

Image - An ATLAS particle collision event display from 2018. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration)

Berkeley Lab Celebrates 90th Anniversary, Imagines the Next 90 Years

AI Finds More Than 1,200 Gravitational Lensing Candidates

Image - A gravitational lens found in the DESI Legacy Surveys data. There are four sets of lensed images that correspond to four background galaxies, which appear as partial rings around an orange galaxy at the center and foreground. (Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, Berkeley Lab, DOE, KPNO, CTIO, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA)

A New Way to Measure Record-Setting Electron Beams

Photo - Sam Barber, left, a research scientist at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center, and Jeroen van Tilborg, a staff scientist at the BELLA Center, hold the active plasma lens, right, and dipole magnets used in an electron-beam diagnostic experiment. Combined, the magnets allowed measurements of electron-beam energy, with range and resolution comparable to what is achieved using the multi-ton magnet located behind them. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)