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Scientists Piece Together the Largest U.S.-Based Dark Matter Experiment
Upper (left) and lower photomultiplier tube arrays are prepared for LZ at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Most of the remaining components needed to fully assemble an underground dark matter search experiment called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) -
The Physics Division hosted its thirteenth “Physics in and Through Cosmology” workshop for high school physics teachers and students, June 24-28, 2019, at Berkeley Lab. The workshop was designed for Physics teachers and highly motivated high school students with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.The Physics Division hosted its thirteenth “Physics in and Through Cosmology” workshop for high school physics teachers and students, June 24-28, 2019, at Berkeley Lab. The workshop was designed for Physics teachers and highly motivated high school students with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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A New Filter to Better Map the Dark Universe
Just as a wine glass distorts an image showing temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background in this photo illustration, large objects like galaxy clusters and galaxies can similarly distort this light to produce lensing effects. -
Simons Foundation Contributes $20M to Observatory Exploring Early Universe
The site of Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile. (Credit: UC San Diego) The Simons Observatory, a Berkeley Lab-involved project under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert that will measure the properties of universe’s early light. -
What if Dark Matter is Lighter? Report Calls for Experiments to Broaden the Hunt
Junsong Lin, an affiliate in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division and UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher, holds components of a low-mass dark matter detector that is now in development. -
The ‘Little’ Computer Cluster That Could
The PDSF computer cluster in 2003. Decades before “big data” and “the cloud” were a part of our everyday lives and conversations, a custom computer cluster based at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) enabled physicists around the world to remotely and simultaneously analyze and visualize data. -
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An innovative use of pixel technology is making
liquid-argon neutrino detectors even better.Read the full article in Symmetry Magazine
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Symposium Honors Lab Physicist Mary Gaillard
A recent gathering in downtown Berkeley brought together scientists from some of the most prestigious institutions in the world to celebrate Mary Gaillard’s 80th birthday and her many outstanding scientific accomplishments. -
Seeker Video Highlights Lab's Dark Energy Research
Berkeley Lab’s David Schlegel and Claire Poppett were featured in a video produced by the science website Seeker on efforts to build DESI — a massive dark energy hunting machine to probe the far reaches of the universe for clues of this mysterious force. -
DESI Opens Its 5,000 Eyes to Capture the Colors of the Cosmos
The first test of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, known as DESI, with its nearly complete complement of components. The long-awaited instrument is designed to explore the mystery of dark energy, which makes up about 68 percent of the universe and is speeding up its expansion.
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Dark Matter Experiment’s Central Component Takes a Deep Dive
Last week, crews at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota strapped the central component of LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) – 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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Dark Matter Day Q&A with Berkeley Lab Physicist Quentin Riffard
Quentin Riffard, a project scientist for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detection experiment that is now being installed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, shares his experiences in researching dark matter in this Q&A.
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Six scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been named Fellows of the AAAS.
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