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Weighing In on ‘Light’ Dark Matter: Q&A With Sinéad Griffin

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)

An Innovative Pattern: Scientists Rewrite Rules for 2D Electronics

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)

Lead Lab Selected for Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment

Photo - This image, from “Eternal Sky,” a video series about the Simons Observatory, shows the Atacama Desert site where some of the telescopes for the CMB-S4 experiment will be built. (Credit: Copyright Debra Kellner/Simons Foundation)

Lab Researcher and Physics Undergrad Shares Poster Project Honoring Black Physicists

Collage - A collage showing the first six posters in Ana Lyons' series honoring black physicists. (Credit: Ana Lyons)

2D Electronics Get an Atomic Tuneup

Electron microscopy experiments revealed meandering stripes formed by metal atoms of rhenium and niobium in the lattice structure of a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide alloy. (Image courtesy of Amin Azizi)

Toward an Ultrahigh Energy Density Capacitor

To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process in this chamber. The bright “plume” you see is the laser hitting the target and depositing the material.