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First Particle Tracks Seen in ProtoDUNE: the Prototype for an International Neutrino Experiment

Photo - Inside the first ProtoDUNE detector, before it was filled with liquid argon. (Credit: CERN)

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

American Physical Society Publishes 60th Anniversary Edition of the Review of Particle Physics

Photo - Today marks the release of the 2018 print edition of the Review of Particle Physics. In this photo, a copy of the printed 2016 edition leans against a stack of previous editions in this photo, with the oldest issues at the bottom. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.)

A Supercool Component for a Next-Generation Dark Matter Experiment

Photo - A worker inspects the titanium cryostat for the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in a clean room. (Credit: STFC)

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)

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)

Q&A: Berkeley Lab Physics Researcher Discusses New Higgs Boson Result

Photo - The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN)

Supercomputers Provide New Window Into the Life and Death of a Neutron

Image - In this illustration, the grid in the background represents the computational lattice that theoretical physicists used to calculate a particle property known as nucleon axial coupling. This property determines how a W boson (white wavy line) interacts with one of the quarks in a neutron (large transparent sphere in foreground), emitting an electron (large arrow) and antineutrino (dotted arrow) in a process called beta decay. This process transforms the neutron into a proton (distant transparent sphere). (Credit: Evan Berkowitz/Jülich Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Dozens of Photographers Attend Berkeley Lab’s Physics Photowalk

Photo - Visiting photographers gather during the Berkeley Lab Photowalk on Wednesday, May 16. (Credit: Kelly J. Owen/Berkeley Lab)

Profiling Extreme Beams: Scientists Devise New Diagnostic for Cutting-Edge and Next-Gen Particle Accelerators

Image - This image from a simulation shows an electron beam (blue circles) passing through a mixture of hydrogen and xenon gases that it ionizes, transforming the mixture into a plasma of protons, xenon ions, and electrons. (Credit: Jean-Luc Vay and Rémi Lehe)

Early Career Spotlight: Zach Marshall Searches for Supersymmetry

Photo - Zachary Marshall, early career LDRD recipient, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Monday, November 13, 2017 in Berkeley, Calif. 11/13/17

Underground Neutrino Experiment Could Provide Greater Clarity on Matter-Antimatter Imbalance

Image - Stacks of lead bricks (gray) and a copper chamber make up the innermost layers of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's multilayered shield. The shielding materials weigh about 57 tons. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility)