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Passing of Rick Firestone
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Rick Firestone on September 9th. Rick was a titan in the nuclear data world. In addition to his seminal work in the 8th edition of the table...
View Article2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members
Congratulations to Physical Sciences Area staff members who have received 2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards. The Berkeley Lab Prize – Lifetime Achievement Award was bestowed upon two of the Area’s...
View ArticleNuclear Data
Program Head: Lee BernsteinProgram Deputy: Mathis Wiedeking The goal of the Bay Area Nuclear Data Group is to address the data needs of the basic and applied nuclear science community while training...
View ArticleNSD’s Nuclear Data Group becomes the Nuclear Data Program
The Nuclear Science Division is pleased to announce that the Nuclear Data Group in the Accelerator-Based Low-Energy Program will be reclassified as the Nuclear Data Program, effective November 1st,...
View ArticleElement 116 efforts featured in two articles
The recent success of efforts by staff in the Accelerator-Based Low-Energy Program to produce element 116, a critical milestone in the search for element 120, has garnered much attention. An article...
View ArticleRaúl Briceño awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and...
Raúl Briceño, a faculty scientist in the Nuclear Sciences Division’s Nuclear Theory Group and an assistant professor of physics at UC Berkeley, is one of three Berkeley Lab scientists to receive the...
View ArticleEnhancing Nuclear Isomer Populations Using Ultrafast Electron Beams
Researchers from the Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division and Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated an enhanced population...
View ArticleBerkeley Lab’s Role in Unraveling the Universe’s Origins with ALICE
Developed by researchers in the Nuclear Science Division in collaboration with the Scientific Computing Group (Science IT), Berkeley Lab’s new ALICE Analysis Facility accelerates research by allowing...
View ArticleDirector’s Corner
February 2025 It has been a busy time for the division since the last newsletter with various research advances, awards, collaboration meetings, and other activities, some of which are featured in...
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GRETA Demonstrates Key Performance Parameters
The Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) project is advancing quickly towards the Critical Decision 4A (CD-4A) milestone, which marks the completion of the majority of the project scope, and will...
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Nuclear Data Program: From Seaborg to Nuclear Structure and Beyond
The Nuclear Data Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California Berkeley (UCB) is rooted in a tradition of groundbreaking research, tracing its origins to the...
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Building a STEM Workforce Pipeline
On November 9, 2024, NSD hosted the 12th annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts Event. One hundred and eighty scouts and fifty leaders attended this year’s event. Since the inception of this annual...
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NSD Community Agreement
In October 2023 the Nuclear Science Division conducted a Mentimeter Survey of NSD staff to take the pulse of the division and to identify areas where the division needed to improve its workplace...
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NSD Staff Gather at Offsite Retreat
In December, NSD held the second annual offsite retreat during which the whole division came together to hear updates from the scientific programs, and discuss topics including career development,...
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Fragments
Raúl Briceño, a faculty scientist in the Nuclear Theory Program received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on...
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