Physics Division

Berkeley Lab and Argonne computational cosmologists help astronomers turn observation into insight.

In his new paper in Nature Astronomy, Taylor Hoyt a researcher in Berkeley Labs Physics Division presents a new approach to calibrating the measurement of the universes present day expansion rate.

In a new publication in PRX Quantum, Berkeley Lab quantum physicist Daniel Carney and colleagues propose a new method to search for invisible particles so-called sterile neutrinos by using a radioactive glass nanoparticle suspended in laser light.

Lost Video of Georges Lematre, Father of the Big Bang Theory, Recovered

Voices From the Past Continue to Emerge Thanks to Improved Technology

How Do You Solve a Problem Like a Proton? You Smash It to Smithereens Then Build It Back Together With Machine Learning

After Fire and Monsoons, DESI Resumes Cataloguing the Cosmos

Hydra I/O, Highly Resilient Inter-chip Communications system has been honored with a 2022 R&D 100 award.

Xiaosheng Huang

2021 Outstanding Mentor

Workforce Development & Education (WD&E) announces that Dr. Xiaosheng Huang has been selected as one of WD&Es 2021 Outstanding Mentors.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has selected James (Jim) Strait, to serve as the Project Director of the next-generation experiment Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4

Brooke Russell meets with the DOE to present a talk about unlocking the mysteries of the neutrino

The Large Hadron Collider has started its third run, smashing together protons at record-breaking energies of 13.6 TeV

Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN

July 4, 2022 was the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs Boson!

The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment has produced the most precise measurement yet of theta13, a key parameter for understanding how neutrinos change their flavor

Benjamin Nachman Receives Prestigious Five-Year Research Grant

Three scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energys Office of Science to receive funding through the Early Career Research Program

Hitoshi Murayama Brings People Together

Building international research communities is a cornerstone of Murayamas physics career.

Berkeley Lab steps up to showcase four cosmology collaborations

When the American Astronomical Society annual meeting was canceled at the last minute, the Physics Divisions Satya Gontcho A Gontcho and Eric Linder quickly coordinated 4 cosmology collaborations, and with Darrin Chavarria from IT, put on a CosmoPalooza webinar (Jan 12-13), bringing together over 300 scientists from 21 countries.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has already mapped out more galaxies than all previous 3D surveys combined and its just getting started!

The making of Chapter 46 of The Feynman Lectures

It took a lot of work to turn Richard Feynmans physics lectures into published volumes. Don Groom was one of the Caltech graduate students who edited transcripts of the original lectures.