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Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected to the American Academy of Arts and...
Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected to the 2012 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society founded in 1780 to recognize...
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Science Underground: Going to Great Depths
The tunnel on the left is the entrance to the cavern that will house the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR neutrino experiment and also provides access to the LUX experiment, which is searching for particles of...
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Lying in Wait for WIMPs
The Bullet Cluster of galaxies is shown in visible light, x-ray emission (pink), and the calculated distribution of invisible dark matter (blue). Dark matter can be measured on the cosmic scale by its...
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Advancing Underground Science at South Dakota’s Sanford Lab
The Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility is almost a mile deep in the former Homestake gold mine. Almost a mile deep in the former Homestake gold mine in the Black Hills of South...
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BOSS Quasars Unveil a New Era in the Expansion History of the Universe
Light from distant quasars (red dots at left) is partially absorbed as it passes through clouds of hydrogen gas. A “forest” of hydrogen absorption lines in an individual quasar’s spectrum (inset)...
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Gives a Big Boost to BigBOSS
The BigBOSS proposal adds a new widefield, prime-focus corrector to the Mayall 4-meter telescope. A focal array with 5,000 optical fibers, individually positioned by robotic actuators, delivers light...
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LUX ZEPLIN Primed to Take the Next Step Forward in the Search for Dark Matter
LUX ZEPLIN would be located inside the 72,000-gallon water tank now occupied by LUX in the Sanford Underground Research Facility’s Davis Campus, 4,850 feet below the surface. LZ’s inner vessel will...
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First Results from LUX, the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector
Berkeley Lab scientists have long championed the development of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, with experimental facilities housed almost 5,000 feet below ground in...
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BOSS Measures the Universe to One-Percent Accuracy
An artist's conception of the measurement scale of the universe. Baryon acoustic oscillations are the tendency of galaxies and other matter to cluster in spheres, which originated as density waves...
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What to Expect Next from the World’s Largest Particle Accelerator
Hydraulic connections of the Fast Cycle Magnet cable to allow the cooling of the magnet’s conductor ( Cable in conduit type) with supercritical helium. Credit: Maximilien Brice In March, when...
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New Visitor Center in South Dakota Highlights Underground Science
The Open Cut is an inactive mine pit that draws more than 40,000 visitors to Lead, SD every year. Credit: Kate Greene, Berkeley Lab The town of Lead, South Dakota was once famous for its prodigious...
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Notes from the Particle Physics Underground
The Black Hills region in western South Dakota is known for its rich stores of gold and silver. In fact, 41 million ounces of gold and 9 million ounces of silver were pulled from Homestake Mine in...
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New Results from World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector
BERKELEY, Calif. — The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South...
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Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley Scientists to Participate in New NASA Space...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley will play a role in an upcoming space telescope project, formally set in motion this...
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$40M to Establish New Observatory Probing Early Universe
The Simons Array will be located in Chile’s High Atacama Desert, at an elevation of about 17,000 feet. The site currently hosts the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (bowl-shaped structure at upper right)...
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World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Completes Search
LEAD, SD, USA / SHEFFIELD, UK — The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South...
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Planetarium Show Brings ‘Phantom’ Matter to Life
Measurements of galaxy rotation by astronomer Vera Rubin, who is shown in this rendering peering through a telescope, are described in a new planetarium show. (Credit: “Phantom of the Universe”) From...
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Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
Light-amplifying devices known as photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), developed for use in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter-hunting experiment, are prepared for a test at Brown University. This test bed,...
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Dark Matter Day Is Approaching … but Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
http://www.illustris-project.org/movies/illustris_movie_dmdens_z0_slicing.mp4 VIDEO: Animated projection of the dark matter density distribution in the universe. (Credit: Illustris...
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New Study: Scientists Narrow Down the Search for Dark Photons Using...
The BaBar detector at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. (Credit: SLAC) In its final years of operation, a particle collider in Northern California was refocused to search for signs of new particles...
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