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Category: Physical Sciences

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)

Study: X-Rays Surrounding ‘Magnificent 7’ May Be Traces of Sought-After Particle

Image - An artistic rendering of the XMM-Newton (X-ray multi-mirror mission) space telescope. A study of archival data from the XMM-Newton and the Chandra X-ray space telescopes found evidence of high levels of X-ray emission from the nearby Magnificent Seven neutron stars, which may arise from the hypothetical particles known as axions. (Credits: D.Ducros; ESA/XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Building a Giant 2D Map of the Universe to Prepare for the Largest 3D Map

Screenshot - A spiral galaxy, viewed with the Sky Viewer tool. (Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys)

Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Honored with the Lawrence Award

Photo - Collage of three winners.

Basics 2 Breakthroughs

Graphic collage of a person standing in front of a periodic table

Berkeley Lab’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2020

photo of FLEXLAB interior