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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.

Applying Quantum Computing to a Particle Process

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

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)

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)

90 Years of Neutrino Science

Collage - A collection of images from past, present, and pending neutrino science experiments, including: Daya Bay, DUNE at LBNF, the Homestake experiment, IceCube, KamLAND, ProtoDUNE and SNO. Displayed in the background is the text of a letter that physicist Wolfgang Pauli had written on Dec. 4, 1930, postulating the existence of the neutrino.

Know When to Unfold ’Em: Study Applies Error-Reducing Methods from Particle Physics to Quantum Computing

Photo - A new wheel-shaped muon detector is part of the ATLAS detector upgrade at CERN. This wheel-shaped detectors measures more than 30 feet in diameter. (Credit: Julien Marius Ordan/CERN)

A Major Milestone for an Underground Dark Matter Search Experiment

Photo - An array of photomultiplier tubes that are designed to detect signals occurring within LZ’s liquid xenon tank. (Credit: Matt Kapust/Sanford Lab)

VIDEO: Dark Matter Day Q&A with LUX-ZEPLIN Spokesperson Kevin Lesko

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

Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to New Exploration of Higgs Boson Interactions

Image - A display of a candidate Higgs boson event at CERN’s ATLAS experiment in which a Higgs boson decays to two muons. The muons appear as red tracks in this rendering. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration)

Shhh! These Tests Will Enable a Quieter Search for Dark Matter

Image - Brianna Mount, assistant professor of physics at Black Hills State University, at work in the Black Hills State University Underground Campus (BHUC) at Sanford Lab, where components of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment were tested to learn the background radioactivity of the materials. (Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Lab)

Berkeley Team Plays Key Role in Analysis of Particle Interactions That Produce Matter From Light

Image - This image shows a reconstruction of a particle interactions event at CERN’s ATLAS detector that produced W bosons from photons, particles of light. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration)

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light

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