ABSTRACT: The Keck Wide-Field Imager (KWFI) is a 1 degree diameter field of view wide-field optical imager for Keck that will be the most powerful wide-field imager in the world for the foreseeable future. KWFI has extreme sensitivity from 10000A down to 3000A that will enable new science from the high redshift Universe, to time-domain […]

Abstract: High energy nuclear physics in the U.S. is undergoing a revitalization 22 years after the turn on of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab. Two major upcoming experimental efforts, sPHENIX at RHIC, planned to turn on next year, and the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), planned to start running in 2032, are […]

Abstract: Dan will review current and SETI radio and optical searches, and also review CASPER open source technologies for real time signal processing instrumentation. The CASPER collaboration develops open source hardware, software, GPUware, FPGA gateware, tools, libraries, reference designs, tutorials, training videos, and workshops for astronomy instrumentation. CASPER instrumentation is utilized mostly for radio astronomy, […]

ABSTRACT: Strongly lensed supernovae are highly valuable cosmological probes, sensitive to both the Hubble constant and the distribution of dark matter. Measuring time delays in strong lensing systems allows for independent measurements of the Hubble constant, providing a mechanism to resolve the current Hubble tension. These time delays are also sensitive to the dark matter […]

LOCATION: IN-PERSON - Sessler Conference Room Building 50A-5132 TITLE: Pen-and-Paper Meets Supercomputing: Building Accurate Models for Cosmological Surveys ABSTRACT: Stage-IV cosmological surveys are poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Universe. The vast data sets collected by surveys like DESI, Rubin and CMB-S4 will be orders of magnitude more powerful than their precursors from the […]

This is a VIRTUAL Event TITLE: Background Modeling and First Results From The LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment ABSTRACT: LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter experiment located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA employing a 7 tonne active volume of liquid xenon in a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC). It’s surrounded by […]

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room - 50A - 5132 DATE: February 3, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Applications of Associate Particle Imaging at Berkeley Lab from Carbon in Soil to Nuclear Data ABSTRACT: We developed an Associated Particle Imaging(API) system that uses inelastic neutron scattering reactions to measure 3d density maps […]

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: February 10, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Current status of the cavity and resonance based experiments ABSTRACT: Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, which currently have a wide open and accessible parameter space, with few constraints on their mass and coupling […]

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: February 17, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: The direct road to neutrino mass ABSTRACT: The discovery of neutrino oscillations gave us proof that neutrinos have mass, a direct contradiction of the minimal standard model of particle physics. But how much mass? Oscillations […]

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 3, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Proposal for a Levitated Invisible Particle Sensor ABSTRACT: Recently Dave Moore (Yale), Kyle Leach (Mines) and I proposed the use of a levitated mechanical quantum sensor combined with a pixelated electron/photon detector to look for […]

  EVENT CANCELED This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 17, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: The EXO program: Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Searches in Xe-136 ABSTRACT: Neutrinoless double beta (0vBB) decay is currently one of the most compelling searches in nuclear and particle physics. If found, it would […]

- FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023 This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 24, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: TBA ABSTRACT: TBA ZOOM INFORMATION – Join Zoom Meeting:https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/95016696011?pwd=Tk1XOW1Xd3RYRnlsc2tEY mRWZlVVZz09 Meeting ID: 950 1669 6011 Passcode: 247722

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: March 31, 2023 TIME: 12:00 PM TITLE: Preparing for discovery of new physics with the Rubin Observatory  ABSTRACT: The coming decade will offer a unique opportunity to tests physics using cosmological probes, thanks to the new generation of galaxy surveys such as […]

This is an In-Person Event Date:  April 7, 2023 Time: 12:00- 1:00 pm Location:  Sessler Conference Room- 50A-5132 Speaker: Noah Sailer (UC Berkeley) Title: Accurate cosmology from CMB lensing and galaxy surveys Abstract: Joint analyses of CMB lensing and spectroscopically-calibrated galaxies have the ability to measure the evolution of matter fluctuations out to high redshifts […]

SPECIAL INPA SEMINAR This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: April 10, 2023 TIME: 4:00  pm TITLE: Light-sheet microscopy of color centers: A new venue for neutrino and dark matter detection with passive crystals ABSTRACT: Most of the techniques currently used to detect nuclear recoils from dark matter and […]

SPECIAL INPA SEMINAR This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: April 11, 2023 TIME: 12:00  pm TITLE: Neutrino-Mass Analysis with sub-eV Sensitivity and Search for Light Sterile Neutrinos with the KATRIN Experiment ABSTRACT: The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to determine the effective mass of the electron-antineutrino […]

This is an In-Person Event LOCATION: Sessler Conference Room – 50A – 5132 DATE: April 14, 2023 TIME: 12:00- 1:00 PM TITLE: The dark matter experiment XENONnT and first WIMP results ABSTRACT: Evidence for about 6 times more matter in the universe than normal matter is coming from cosmological observations and analyses on all scales. What […]