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Ivan Bazarov: Then and Now

December 18, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments early career, Early Career Award, Particle Physics

Ivan Bazarov is a professor in the Department of Physics at Cornell University.

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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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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Theorist Takes Aim at the Makeup of Matter

October 22, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Gluons, Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, Quarks, Research

Quarks and gluons are elementary particles that make up everything you see before you, including yourself, and Nobuo Sato wants to know how. At the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, he will be tackling this question as the recipient of the JSA/Jefferson Lab Nathan Isgur Fellowship for Nuclear Theory.

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Two Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Fellows

October 16, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Award, Catalysis, Chemistry, DOE, Funding, Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have garnered two out of five “Distinguished Scientists Fellow” awards announced today by the DOE’s Office of Science. Theoretical physicist Sally Dawson, a world-leader in calculations aimed at describing the properties of the Higgs boson, and José Rodriguez, a renowned chemist exploring and developing catalysts for energy-related reactions, will each receive $1 million in funding over three years to pursue new research objectives within their respective fields.

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Department of Energy Announces $21.4 Million for Quantum Information Science Research

October 1, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments ASTROPHYSICS, Cosmology, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, machine learning algorithm, Particle Physics, quantum entanglement, Quantum information science, Research Funding

The following news release was issued on Aug. 26, 2019 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). It announces funding that DOE has awarded for research in quantum information science related to particle physics and fusion energy sciences. Scientists at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are principal investigators on two of the 21 funded projects.

Research Results

NUS researchers discover unusual ‘quasiparticle’ in common 2D material

August 27, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Particle Physics

A research team from the National University of Singapore has discovered a new quasiparticle named ‘polaronic trion’ in 2D material molybdenum disulphide. It could be used to design an optical modulator for visible light that is controlled by both temperature and electric fields.

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Considering the Container to Strengthen the Weak Force’s Signal

July 30, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics

Kurtis Bartlett won the 2018 JSA Thesis Prize for making measurements that helped determine the weak charge of the proton.

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Star tours

June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 Author 0 Comments Particle Physics, Physics, Space and Astronomy

Astronomy bot speeds up search for Jupiter’s twins Astronomers have a new tool in their search for extraterrestrial life –

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study shows how icy outer solar system satellites may have formed

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Author 0 Comments Particle Physics, Physics, Space and Astronomy

Scientists use sophisticated computer simulations and observations of trans-Neptunian objects to understand the formation of the solar system Using sophisticated