LBNL Nuclear Science Division

Congratulations to NSD/UC Berkeley's Raul Briceno, on his Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Award. Briceno works in lattice QCD, using supercomputers to model quarks and gluons.

NSD's Heavy Element Group just added one more isotope of the Superheavy Element dubnium (Db, Z = 105) to the nuclear chart! Check out their results on the discovery of 255Db published as a letter in PRC. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.110…

NSD's staffers have used MARATHON data of electron scattering and ^3H and ^3He to study the nuclear structure of light ions, finding that these nuclei exhibit large nuclear effects; the nuclei act differently from a bag of free nucleons. Read about it at loom.ly/cFcmDjk

The NSD is pleased to announce the reclassification of the Nuclear Data Group in the Low-Energy Program as the Nuclear Data Program! 📈 With this change comes the appointment of Lee Bernstein as the Nuclear Data Program Head and Mathis Wiedeking as Program Deputy.

NSD's Bethany Goldblum will be speaking at the "Women in STEM" forum on Oct. 29th (tomorrow) at 4 pm, in Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley. More info at loom.ly/DO_CI5U, including the opportunity to ask the panelists questions in advance.

#LBNL #NSD is a major contributor to CERN's #ALICE experiment, providing an "Analysis Farm" for CERN's ALICE experiment.  It provides reliable computing resources for ALICE analysts, with near-zero downtime.  Read about it in the October NSD Newsletter: www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/10/01/a…

The October 2024 #NSD #Newsletter features articles on our new ALICE-USA analysis facility and progress toward the production of Liv (element 116) with Ti beams, along with the usual features: Directors Corner, IDEA corner and Fragments.  Read it at www-nsd.lbl.gov/nuclear-scie…

Congratulations to NSD's 2022 #IDEA Council, Mark Bandstra, Heather Crawford, Tom Gallant, & Ernst Sichtermann, for receiving a 2024 IDEA Award for championing the change to the Lab’s sick leave policy to explicitly support sick leave for mental illness! #DEI

With another #MentorHighlight we celebrate @jpore who is fascinated by the chemical properties of the heaviest elements and encourages aspiring scientists and engineers to pursue what they are fascinated by too! A fun day = being with her kids 🍦 ; favorite food = veggie sushi

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. He was also a wonderful mentor with an insatiable curiosity and sense of humor. He will be sorely missed. www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/10/14/p…

Congratulations to #NSDs Kai Vetter for his LBNL Lifetime Achievement Award for, " Kai Vetter’s career-spanning achievements in radiation detection and imaging, his impact on science and society, and his commitment to developing the next generation of scientific leaders."

NSD Applied Nuclear Physics Program researchers recently visited the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) to collect data for projects using #ComputerVision to automatically identify nuclear material containers. Learn more about this research 🤖✨ www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/07/01/r…

A collaboration, including an NSD scientist, has precisely measured the 71Ga half-life, confirming it can't explain the "gallium anomaly" in solar neutrino experiments. The source of this anomaly still remains an exciting mystery🤔🔎 Learn more: www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/07/01/h…

Fall 🍂🍁 has arrived following an eventful summer for NSD! Check out our recent summer newsletter to see what we were up to. A great place to start is our Director's Corner where NSD Director Reiner Krueken gives highlights and more! Read on: www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/07/01/d…

We are happy to congratulate NSD's Lisa Schlueter for presenting in the @BerkeleyLab #LabSLAM2024 and winning 3rd place🏅 🥳 Next, Lisa will advance to the Bay Area Research SLAM to captivate a new audience with her talk "Why our Universe Shouldn't Exist" 💫🪐 @LBNLpathways

Congratulations to NSD Research Scientist Jennifer Pore for receiving the @doescience Early Career Research Award! Dr. Pore will be studying the physical and chemical properties of Superheavy elements, potentially reshaping the periodic table as we know it www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/09/10/n…

Calling all Scout Troops!  Registration for LBNL's Nuclear Science Day @NucSciDayLBNL, to be held on Nov. 9th,  is open, at NuclearScienceDay.lbl.gov/, through Oct. 4th. Nuclear Science Day welcomes troops from all scout organizations, for scouts in the 8th grade or above.

This data is important for many applications, including nuclear medicine, non-proliferation, nuclear energy and fundamental science.

#NSD's Nuclear Data Group has received @DOEscience funding to train the next generation of nuclear data evaluators.  Evaluators assess nuclear data and find consensus (or fit) values for critical properties, like half-lives. - www-nsd.lbl.gov/2024/08/27/n…

LBNL's #NSD Hosted the 15th Workshop on Critical Point Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2024).  95 participants gathered to discuss searches for the QCD tricritical point and related topics. Read more about it at www-nsd.lbl.gov/nuclear-scie…