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From Design to Data Analysis: Berkeley Lab's Engineering @lbnlengineering @BerkeleyLab celebrates LUX-ZEPLIN's recent result and is proud to be part of the collaboration that designed and built the detector.
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Welcome! This new video tour welcomes viewers into the exciting and vibrant research environment ...
Inside the Physics Division at Berkeley Lab
@LBNLphysics @BerkeleyLab
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“The holy grail of particle physics is to search and find things that disagree with the Standard Model,” says @BerkeleyLab's Aaron Manalaysay. “And dark matter is one of those, and that motivates everyone.”
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LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter: A particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPs, a #DarkMatter candidate — but researchers will need more data to confirm. @lzdarkmatter @LBNLphysics @BerkeleyLab @SanfordLab
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Researchers @LBNLnuclearsci @BerkeleyLab have unveiled the first clinical images of Actinium-225 captured using a standard TOF-PET Scanner. Their novel TOF-CGI technique offers a superior signal-to-noise ratio for monitoring personalized cancer treatments.
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An international team led by the University of Surrey and including scientists @LBNLnuclearsci @BerkeleyLab @FRIBLab @michiganstateu has carried out the first scientific experiment using GRETA, the world’s most advanced gamma-ray spectrometer.
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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys has released the biggest 2D map of the universe ever made, containing nearly 4 billion objects. Here's a tour of just a few. 🔭
Details: newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/1…
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Berkeley Lab’s cyclotron changed more than physics, it helped invent team science. Ernest O. Lawrence’s collaborative model became a blueprint for @ENERGY’s national laboratories. #Freedom250 #DOE
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World’s most advanced gamma-ray detector is ready for science! Researchers will use the newly commissioned Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, GRETA, to explore how stars form heavy elements and test the limits of the nucleus. @LBNLnuclearsci @michiganstateu newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/07/2…
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“Someday future progress might enable more compact and efficient neutron generators, which have all kinds of applications, like cargo screening, planetary science, and medical therapy and imaging," says @BerkeleyLab's Arun Persaud. #fusion interestingengineering.com/e…
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At low energies, material around a fusion reaction isn’t just a container—it can change how often fusion occurs. @LBNLatap and @ucdavis researchers say the finding could guide neutron-source materials. #fusion newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/07/2…
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Made in Berkeley Lab: Revealing the Secret Miniature World of Wire Bonding, the specialized process of connecting a microchip to the outside world, and the ultra-delicate, hands-on work @lbnlengineering @BerkeleyLab that makes it possible.
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Berkeley Lab will lead 13 new #GenesisMission projects and partner on 30+ more, using #AI, supercomputing and advanced instruments to speed discovery in energy, materials, water, fusion, and national security. @ENERGY
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In a milestone achievement, the CODEX-b collaboration has recorded its first data with a prototype detector @CERN, a critical step in the search for hidden particles.
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The Berkeley Lab-led Multi-Office Particle Accelerator Team, an @ENERGY AI Genesis project, aims to “maximize the impact of #ArtificialIntelligence on current and future DOE #ParticleAccelerator facilities,” says @LBNLatap Senior Scientist Jean-Luc Vay, the project’s head.
The @ENERGY’s Genesis Mission “is enabling us to leverage AI to transform the design and operation of particle accelerators,” says our Senior Scientist Jean-Luc Vay, who heads the Multi-Office particle Accelerator Team project.
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A team @BerkeleyLab and the Univ of Vienna has developed a novel ML framework trained on over a million simulated sky maps –
Machine Learning Reopens the Case for Dark Matter at the Galactic Center
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#Quantum noise sets the ultimate limit on what we can measure and control at the smallest scales. We're breaking down what it is, why it matters, and how researchers are working to overcome it. Watch to learn more. newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/05/2…
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Engineers @lbnlengineering @BerkeleyLab are creating Iris, a prototype fiber-positioning robot for the DESI upgrade to Spec-S5 @LBNLphysics: piped.video/V4Lne4wiHvk
#Engineering #DESI #Spec-S5 #Robots #TeamScience #BerkeleyLab
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QubiC, an open-source superconducting qubit control system developed by researchers @LBNLatap, is featured in this Q&A with Chris Spitzer @BerkeleyLab @LBNLcs: How Researchers Are Building Next-Gen Quantum Computers
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Winding of the MARS-D magnet's closed-loop coil was completed by @lbnlengineering @BerkeleyLab after nearly two years of intense technical work.
Made in Berkeley Lab: Winding a Novel Closed-Loop Coil Magnet Structure engineering.lbl.gov/2026/05/…
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