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New Technique Looks for Dark Matter Traces in Dark Places

March 26, 2020 sarah Jonas Berkeley, dark matter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, X-Ray

A new study by scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and the University of Michigan – published online this week in the journal Science – concludes that a possible dark matter-related explanation for a mysterious light signature in space is largely ruled out.

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Looking Up From the Mountaintop: Q&A with a Telescope Instrument’s Lead Observer

March 26, 2020 sarah Jonas ASTROPHYSICS, Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Cosmology, Dark Energy, dark energy spectroscopic instrument, DESI, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Mayall telescope, Universe

In this Q&A Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, a lead observer for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), shares her experiences at the DESI site near Tucson, Arizona, including evening observing stints to run through detailed checklists and probe how the instrument’s components are working.

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Berkeley Lab Cosmologists Are Top Contenders in Machine Learning Challenge

March 20, 2020 sarah Jonas Artificial Intelligence, ASTROPHYSICS, Berkeley Lab, cern, Cosmology, Large Hadron Collider, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, LHC, Machine Learning, Particle Physics, Physics, UC Berkeley

In a machine learning challenge dubbed the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Olympics, a team of cosmologists from Berkeley Lab developed a code that best identified a mock signal hidden in simulated particle-collision data.

Research Results

Scientists Discover New Clue Behind Age-Related Diseases and Food Spoilage

February 26, 2020 sarah Jonas Advanced Light Source, Age-related Diseases, aging adults, Alzheimer's Disease, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY, Avocado, BIOCHEMISTRY, Cancer, Chronic Diseases, Dementia, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, food science and nutrition, Fuels, Hydroxyl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lipids, Mass Spectrometry, meat, Neurodegenative Disease, Organic Chemistry, Oxidation, Oxygen, Ozone, Parkinson's Disease, Plastic, Pollution, Synchrotron Science, ultraviolet light

Berkeley Lab scientists have made a surprising discovery that could help explain our risk for developing chronic diseases or cancers as we get older, and how our food decomposes over time.

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Register to Join a Special April 16 Media Tour of a Telescope Instrument that Will Create a 3D Map of Millions of Galaxies

February 21, 2020 sarah Jonas Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Dark Energy, Galaxies, Galaxy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Spectroscopy

Members of the media are invited to attend a mid-April dedication of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is scheduled to begin its five-year mission to construct a 3D map of the universe in the coming months.

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Particle Physics Turns to Quantum Computing for Solutions to Tomorrow’s Big-Data Problems

January 29, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, cern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Particle Physics, Physics, Quantum, quantum computing

Giant-scale physics experiments are increasingly reliant on big data and complex algorithms fed into powerful computers, and managing this multiplying mass of data presents its own unique challenges. To better prepare for this data deluge posed by next-generation upgrades and new experiments, physicists are turning to the fledgling field of quantum computing.

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The CUORE Underground Experiment Narrows the Search for Rare Particle Process

January 9, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Italy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Neutrino, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Science

The largest set of data yet from an underground experiment called CUORE sets more stringent limits on a theoretical ultra-rare particle process known as neutrinoless double-beta decay that could help to explain the abundance of matter over antimatter in the universe.

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Milestone in Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Will Bring in a New Ring

January 8, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Accelerators, Advanced Light Source, ALS, Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, Department Of Energy, DOE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Light Source, particle accelerators, photon science, Synchrotron, X-rays

An upgrade of the Advanced Light Source, a synchrotron at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has passed an important milestone that will help to maintain the ALS’ world-leading capabilities. On Dec. 23 the DOE granted approval for a key funding step that will allow the project to start construction on a new inner electron storage ring known as an accumulator ring.

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Simulations Attempt to Reconstruct One of the Most Explosive Events in the Universe: A Neutron Star Merger

December 12, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, DOE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Neutron Stars, Simulation

A team led by scientists that included Berkeley Lab researchers has simulated the formation of a disc of matter, a giant burst of ejected matter, and the startup of energetic jets in the aftermath of a merger by two neutron stars.

Announcement

Six Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

November 26, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments AAAS Fellows, bioactinide, BIOCHEMISTRY, Bioengineering, Biosciences, chelation therapy, chemical and biomolecular engineering, chemical sciences, Cosmology, Cyanobacteria, Dark Energy Survey, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, earth and planetary sciences, Earth Sciences, Earthquakes, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Nuclear Engineering, Particle Physics, Physics, Plutonium, Radionuclides, Seismology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Systems Biology, UC Berkeley

Six scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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The Beauty of Imperfections: Linking Atomic Defects to 2D Materials’ Electronic Properties

November 20, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments 2D materials, Advanced Light Source, atomic defect, atomic defects, Berkeley Lab, Catalysis, Conductivity, Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Energy Office of Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Foundry, nanotechnology, NERSC, Quantum information science, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics, scanning tunneling microscopy, Semiconductor, Sulfur

Scientists at Berkeley Lab have revealed how atomic defects emerge in transition metal dichalcogenides, and how those defects shape the 2D material’s electronic properties. Their findings could provide a versatile yet targeted platform for designing 2D materials for quantum information science.

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Dark Matter Experiment’s Central Component Takes a Deep Dive – Nearly a Mile Underground

October 29, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Berkeley Lab, dark matter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL, Particle Physics

Last week, crews at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota strapped the central component of LUX-ZEPLIN – the largest direct-detection dark matter experiment in the U.S. – below an elevator and s-l-o-w-l-y lowered it 4,850 feet down a shaft formerly used in gold-mining operations.

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