🌌💥 New episode alert! 🚨 Episode 2 of Let's Get Nuclear explores the universe's matter-antimatter mystery 🤯. Join @BerkeleyLab experts as they discuss the neutrino's role in solving this cosmic puzzle 🔍 #NuclearPhysics #LetsGetNuclear
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LBNL's NSD and Creighton University scientists have compared photon-proton and photon-lead collisions, and discovered that some of the products look very similar. So, the product is likely a single resonance, rather than a mixture of two resonances. #LBL #Creighton
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Get ready to go nuclear! 🚀💥 Introducing our new podcast series, Let's Get Nuclear! 🎙️ In episode 1, we dive into the mysterious world of superheavy elements! 🌟https://nuclearscience.lbl.gov/2026/01/27/episode-1-the-quest-for-element-120-and-the-elusive-island-of-stability/
Berkeley Lab has pushed the boundaries of magnet technology! Their 88-Inch Cyclotron's VENUS ion source set a world record for magnetic confinement field strength. Now, the team is building MARS, which will create even stronger magnetic fields.
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Celebrating 25 years of discovery! From building the STAR TPC to pioneering MAPS detectors, RNC led the way in finding the "perfect liquid." As this epic journey at RHIC ends, we continue leading QCD & jet research into a new era. ⚛️✨ #Science #Physics
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ALICE collaboration at CERN just cracked how light atomic nuclei survive the LHC's scorching fireball. Turns out nuclei form after the initial collision via nuclear fusion in a cooler environment - key finding to better model light-nuclei creation and interpret signals in the search for dark matter.
Published in Science, CUORE hunts for a rare process that could change our understanding of the universe and help answer one of physics’ biggest questions: Are neutrinos their own antiparticles, and could that explain why we exist at all?
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New paper in PRL! 🚀 NSD Researchers propose that 23Na could be a significant source of galactic axions, detectable by all-sky detectors like COSI 🔍. It might be possible to reach 3 sigma sensitivity in 2 years of measurements!
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Meet Mathis Wiedeking, an experimental physicist at @BerkeleyLab 🚀! He's on a mission to unravel nuclear reactions that help us understand how elements form 🌟.
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#nuclearphysics #astrophysics #i-process
📸 : Marilyn Sargent / Berkeley Lab
Over the last few months, NSD has welcomed a cohort of summer interns from high school and undergraduate and graduate university programs. Most interns are performing research in our scientific programs, while two students contribute to a new outreach website.
Learn More: https://loom.ly/gHCxKaw
The recently released Physical Sciences 2025 Strategic Plan builds on recent accomplishments and the unique capabilities of the Physical Sciences Area to lay out a vision for the next ten years.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/lSvOjeM
NSD hosts the 22nd Annual Exotic Beam Summer School
The Nuclear Science Division welcomed 40 students for an immersive, weeklong program on rare isotope beam science.
Learn More: https://loom.ly/d9SRKoc
Congratulations to Provakar Datta, postdoctoral researcher at LBNL, the winner of the 2024 JSA Thesis Prize! He was recognized for his PhD thesis titled "Precision Measurements of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor to High Momentum Transfer using Durand's Method." Full story: https://loom.ly/-kC_53k
Scientists use titanium beam to find path to Element 120
“Creation of a new element is an extremely rare feat," says @BerkeleyLab's Jacklyn Gates. "It’s exciting to be a part of the process aimed at making #element120 and to be on such a promising path forward.”
Learn more: https://loom.ly/emCnnSs
Cyclotron saves the periodic table when physics goes bonkers! New results from Berkeley Lab show that we can explore the mysterious end of the periodic table.
Learn More!: https://loom.ly/8awqpy4
📷: Marilyn Sargent / Berkeley Lab
NSD Sr. Scientist Feng Yuan's recent PRT leave at premier East Coast and European institutions enabled collaboration with experts on hadron physics research crucial for the future EIC.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/dKtzn8Q
The search for element 120 is on! Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen visits @BerkeleyLab to chat with our Heavy Element Group, exploring the quest for new elements.
Listen to the fascinating story of scientists pushing the boundaries of discovery on the BBC's latest audio program: https://loom.ly/Scj0t3I.
We’re proud to shine our #MentorHighlight on Weronika Wolszczak, who leads a research program to optimize scintillation mechanisms in radiation‑detection materials.
#NSD #RadiationDetection #Scintillators #Innovation #AppliedNuclearPhysics
The DOE Office of Science has played a key role in discovering & creating superheavy elements. Researchers at Berkeley Lab are aiming to discover element 120!
Learn about new methods to create superheavy elements: https://loom.ly/M9cO6L0
📹: Marilyn Sargent / Berkeley Lab / Jennifer Pore
Meet GENESIS, a cutting-edge detector array at LBNL that helps us unlock nuclear secrets! 🌟 Learn about the Nuclear Data Program at LBNL & UCB and its work in advancing nuclear data for energy, space, and national security. 🚀
Learn more: https://loom.ly/QsVb2_M.
We’re excited to shine our #InternHighlight on Amir Abdou, who’s advancing particle tracking techniques for relativistic nuclear collisions.
#NSD #RelativisticNuclearCollisions #Curiosity #ParticleTracking
We’re proud to shine our #MentorHighlight on Volker Koch, whose work on the properties of strongly interacting matter and its phase structure deepens our understanding of the universe’s workings.
#NSD #NuclearTheory #NuclearPhysics
Big news! 🚀 The Giant Leap Podcast with Taylor Wilson just dropped by to chat with our Heavy Element Group about shaking up the periodic table 🧮💥! Could we be seeing some exciting changes? 🤔 Stay tuned for the episode coming soon! 📻 #GiantLeap #PeriodicTable
We’re proud to shine our #MentorHighlight on Nico Abgrall, who is pioneering autonomous, long‑dwell systems that detect, locate, and identify radiation in real time wherever they’re deployed.
#NSD #AppliedNuclearPhysics #RadiationDetection #AI #Innovation
Congratulations to LBNL Theory group postdoc Wenbin Zhao for receiving 2025 RHIC&AGS Merit Award at BNL! He was recognized for his invaluable contributions across multiple areas, including hydrodynamics, critical phenomena, electromagnetic probes of baryon-rich matter, and baryon stopping.
Congratulations to UC Berkley & LBNL RNC group postdoc Lipei Du, for receiving 2025 RHIC&AGS Merit Award at BNL! He was recognized for his invaluable contributions across multiple areas, including hydrodynamics, critical phenomena, electromagnetic probes of baryon-rich matter, and baryon stopping.
We’re thrilled to shine our #InternHighlight on Arin Manohar, who’s applying machine learning and optimization to improve our GRETA gamma‑ray detector.
#NSD #NuclearPhysics #MachineLearning #GRETA #Innovation
After 30 years in the making, GRETA is finally complete! 🎉 Check out this timelapse video showing its construction at Berkeley Lab.
📹: GRETA Collaboration
#GRETA #BerkeleyLab #NuclearPhysics #NuclearScience #Science #Physics
Our heavy element program has made history by identifying a molecule containing Nobelium, the heaviest element with a definitively identified compound! 🌟 This milestone expands our understanding of chemistry.! Full story in Chemistry World: https://loom.ly/VNDNOls
🎨: Kent Leech / Berkeley Lab
We’re proud to shine our #MentorHighlight on Shujie Li, whose medium/high‑energy nuclear experiments employ electrons as precision probes to unveil the inner workings of nucleons.
#NSD #NucleonStructure #RelativisticNuclearCollisions
