Physics Division

Ben Nachman, a staff scientist in Berkeley Labs Physics Division, co-organized the 15th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders BOOST 23

Berkeley Lab's Physics Division hosted its seventeenth QuarkNet Physics in and Through Cosmology Workshop on June 20-30, 2023 aimed at an audience of high school students and teachers.

In an article published in the CERN EP Newsletter, Ben Nachman — a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division — briefly discusses recent measurements of jet substructure (JSS) that probe the fundamental and emergent properties of the strong force in new ways.

A team of engineers and scientists in Berkeley Lab's Engineering and Physics Divisions have conceived, developed, and built a prototype 3D pixelated detection system for DUNE, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Quantum simulation of fundamental particles and forces
June 21, 2023 / Christian Bauer et al / Nature Reviews Physics

The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to mine. Taken during the experiments survey validation phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way

Berkeley Labs Physics Division hosted SCET 2023, the 20th workshop on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, on March 27-30, 2023

Berkeley Labs Physics Division hosted an ATLAS Masterclass on April 22, 2023, for Bay Area high school students (juniors and seniors) interested in computer software and data analysis in high energy physics experiments.

Bay Area premiere of planetarium show '5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI'

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

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