Physics Division

Julian Borrill article published in the CERN Courier

"A newly endorsed ground-based observatory to study the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will deliver transformative discoveries in fundamental physics, cosmology, astrophysics and astronomy."

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.

Lab researcher Brooke Russell is one of five recipients of the 2021 For Women in Science (FWIS) Fellowship, an annual L'Oral USA program that awards five female postdoctoral scientists $60,000 grants to advance their research.

Berkeley Lab scientists Maurice Garcia-Sciveres and Ramamoorthy Ramesh discuss how future microchips could perform better and require less energy than silicon.

Joanne Cohn featured in Physics Today

A strong sense of community led an early-career string theorist to share preprints in a scientifically competitive environment.

Department of Energy Awards Berkeley Labs Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Its Prestigious Project Management Excellence Award

Ben Nachman awarded the 2022 APS Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics "For innovative contributions to the search for new physics in collider data incorporating original machine learning algorithms, and for the effective communication of these new techniques to the broader physics community."

Is Gravity a Quantum Force? Scientists at Berkeley Lab and the National Institute of Standards and Technology seek to find out.

Merlon Lynn Stevenson

1923 2021 Professor of Physics, Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Simone Pagan Griso wins DOE Early Career Award! His award explores experimental aspects of leading theories of particle physics involving the creation of new massive particles from very high-energy photons that are emitted by LHC proton beams.

Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run

Supernovae Twins. The results from the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) collaboration, led by Greg Aldering of the Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will enable scientists to study dark energy with greatly improved precision and accuracy.