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Tag: Nuclear Science Division

Preparing for a New Tool to Study the ‘Glue That Binds Us All’

Image - At left is a 1980s conception of the structure of the proton, which is a positively charged particle found in atomic nuclei. At right is our current understanding of the various subatomic particles – including quarks, antiquarks, and gluons – that make up the proton and contribute to a fundamental property known as spin. (Credit: Z.-E. Meziani)

New Measurements of Exotic Form of Magnesium Suggest a Surprising Shape-Shift

Photo - This instrumentation at Japan's Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory in Wako, Japan. (Credit: RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)

How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues to What’s Driving Powerful Plasma Jets

Image - This visualization of a general-relativistic collisionless plasma simulation shows the density of positrons near the event horizon of a rotating black hole. Plasma instabilities produce island-like structures in the region of intense electric current. (Credit: Kyle Parfrey et al./Berkeley Lab)

FIONA Measures the Mass Number of 2 Superheavy Elements: Moscovium and Nihonium

Photo - FIONA is a new system at Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch-Cyclotron that enables direct mass number measurements of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

A Next Step for GRETA: A Better Gamma-Ray Detector

Image - A rendering of the completed Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, known as GRETA. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Award Finalists Demonstrate Improved Nuclear Physics Code for Supercomputing

Photo - From left: David Brantley, André Walker-Loud, Pavlos Vranas, Henry Monge-Camacho, Thorsten Kurth, and Chia Cheng “Jason” Chang – pictured here at Berkeley Lab – participated in an international team that calculated the nucleon axial coupling, a property important to understanding the neutron lifetime. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

Gamma Rays, Watch Out: There’s a New Detector in Town

Q&A: Berkeley Lab’s Spencer Klein Talks About IceCube Then and Now, and What’s Next

Photo - Spencer Klein at the geographic South Pole in 2006. (Photo courtesy of Spencer Klein/Berkeley Lab)

IceCube Neutrinos Point to Long-Sought Cosmic Ray Accelerator

Image - In this artistic composition, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole, a distant source emits neutrinos that are detected below the ice by IceCube sensors, called digital optical modules (DOMs). (Credit: IceCube/NSF)

Berkeley Lab Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials

CERN Ceremony Marks Groundbreaking for Accelerator Upgrade Involving U.S. National Labs

Photo - A collaboration among several U.S. national laboratories has been working on superconducting magnets that will be integral to a planned high-luminosity upgrade for CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

From Moon Rocks to Space Dust: Berkeley Lab's Extraterrestrial Research

Photo - A blue crystal recovered from a meteorite that fell near Morocco in 1998. The scale bar represents 200 microns (millionths of a meter). Such crystals, which have been studied at Berkeley Lab, have been found to contain liquid water and complex organic compounds. (Credit: Queenie Chan/The Open University, U.K.)