CUORE Underground Experiment in Italy Carries on Despite Pandemic
Laura Marini, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and a Berkeley Lab affiliate who serves as a run coordinator for the underground CUORE experiment, shares her experiences of working on CUORE and...
View ArticleDaya Bay Reactor Experiment Continues to Generate Data
Antineutrino detectors are submersed in liquid at the Daya Bay experiment, as seen during the final phase of construction in August 2012. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Experiment: Daya Bay...
View ArticleScientists Successfully Demonstrate a New Experiment in the Search for...
The CUPID-Mo detector is installed in the Edelweiss cryostat at Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) in France. (Credit: CUPID-Mo collaboration) Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleInternational Physicists Join Forces in Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos
These four Daya Bay detectors are submerged in a pool of ultrapure water that helps to shield against naturally occurring radiation. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Note: This press release is...
View ArticleA New Data Milestone for CUORE Experiment in Italy
The CUORE detector array, shown here in this rendering, is formed by 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration) Surrounded by lead and...
View Article90 Years of Neutrino Science
A collection of images from past, present, and pending neutrino science experiments, including: Daya Bay, DUNE at LBNF, the Homestake experiment, IceCube, KamLAND, ProtoDUNE and SNO. Displayed in the...
View ArticleScientists Say Farewell to Daya Bay Site, Proceed with Final Data Analysis
Photomultiplier tubes, designed to pick up faint light signals from particle interactions, line the inside of a detector for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab Researchers, Computational Facilities Play Key Role in...
Experimental hall of the KATRIN experiment showing the main spectrometer from the front. The outside rings are air-coil magnets used to compensate for the earth’s magnetic field. (Credit: Markus Breig,...
View ArticleExperiment Provides Deeper Look into the Nature of Neutrinos
The first glimpse of data from the full array of a deeply chilled particle detector operating beneath a mountain in Italy sets the most precise limits yet on where scientists might find a theorized...
View ArticleQ&A: Berkeley Lab’s Spencer Klein Talks About IceCube Then and Now, and...
In this Q&A, Berkeley Lab physicist Spencer Klein, who has been a part of the IceCube collaboration since 2004, discusses Berkeley Lab's historic contributions to IceCube, and IceCube's...
View ArticleFirst Particle Tracks Seen in ProtoDUNE: the Prototype for an International...
The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino...
View ArticleKATRIN Cuts the Mass Estimate for the Elusive Neutrino in Half
An international team of scientists that includes Berkeley Lab researchers has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant yet elusive elementary...
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