All News
From EDG
| Has date | Summary | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MicroBooNE Generic Neutrino Detection | 9 June 2021 | The Wire-Cell analysis in MicroBooNE achieved significant improvement in rejecting cosmic ray backgrounds | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=117324 |
| Muon g-2 First Results | 7 April 2021 | First results from Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment confirmed Brookhaven's results in 2004 | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=118760 |
| Daya Bay End of Operation | 12 December 2020 | Daya Bay finished data taking on Dec 12, 2020 after 9 years of successful operation. | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=117575 |
| ProtoDUNE Cold Electronics | 29 August 2018 | BNL designed, produced, tested, and delivered cold electronics to ProtoDUNE. | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=212860 |
| MicroBooNE Signal Processing | 6 July 2018 | The Wire-Cell analysis significantly improved the charge extraction through the 2D deconvolution technique in MicroBooNE. | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=212846 |
| MicroBooNE Low Noise | 7 August 2017 | MicroBooNE obtained clearest images through cold electronics and software noise filtering developed at BNL. | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=212311 |
| Daya Bay Fuel Evolution Analysis | 4 April 2017 | Daya Bay's fuel evolution analysis indicated errors in reactor antineutrino modeling. | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=112136 |
| Daya Bay Reactor Spectrum | 12 February 2016 | Daya Bay's precise measurement of reactor antineutrino spectrum shows surprising features. | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=111804 |
| Breakthrough Prize 2016 | 9 November 2015 | The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the spokespeople and collaborations of the Daya Bay, K2K/T2K, KamLAND, SNO and Super-Kamiokande experiments. The BNL Electronic Detector Group plays a leading role in Daya Bay and has members named on the Super-Kamiokande awards for past participation. BNL scientists are also named on the SNO award. | https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1 |
| BNL Link to Nobel Prize | 8 October 2015 | BNL has links to 2015 Nobel Prize for neutrino oscillations through Minfang's group in Chemistry on SNO and Maurice's role in SuperK | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=25984&btw=1 |
| Daya Bay 8-AD paper | 11 September 2015 | Daya Bay has doubled the precision of measurements of q13 and dm**2 | https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11747 |
| Mary APSfellow | 15 December 2014 | Bishai, Mary R.
Brookhaven National Laboratory Citation: For her contributions to flavor physics, including analysis of the NuMI/MINOS neutrino beam, leadership of the accelerator neutrino program, and contributions to understanding of the b-quark. |
http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11704 |
| Paper on sterile neutrino search at Daya Bay published | 1 October 2014 | An analysis initiated and led by EDG members Jiaji Ling, Xin Qian, Chao Zhang and Milind Diwan on a search for sterile neutrinos at Daya Bay has led to a publication today. | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11664 |
| Early Career Award | 1 May 2014 | Xin Qian won the Early Career Award for Detector Development towards Precision Measurements of Neutrino Mixing | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11641&btw=1 |
| Service award in science | 20 March 2014 | The Town of Brookhaven Office of Women's Services Award in Science was awarded to Mary Bishai | http://www.brookhaven.org/Departments/HousingandHumanServices/WomensServices/WomensRecognitionNominationForm.aspx |
| Women physicist month | 5 March 2014 | Lisa Whitehead is recognized as woman physicist of the month by the APS CSWP | http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/womanmonth/2014.cfm |
| BNL 2013 Top10 | 15 January 2014 | New result to be published on Physical Review letters (http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v112/i6/e061801) includes the first ever measurement of the "atmospheric neutrino mass splitting" using electron neutrinos. This observation is consistent with prior measurements using muon neutrinos and confirms the 3-neutrino standard model of neutrino oscillations. | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11602&btw=1 |
| Jaffe APSfellow | 30 November 2013 | David Jaffe was elected APS fellow. | http://dpfnewsletter.org/?p=939%20%2C%20%20http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11603 |
| DayaBay SpectralAnalysis | 22 August 2013 | The Daya Bay experiment announced new results on an improved measurement of theta_13 and the first measurement of the "atmospheric" mass splitting with electron antineutrinos. | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11568 |
| S&T Award | 24 June 2013 | David Jaffe wins Brookhaven Science & Technology Award for 2013 for outstanding contributions the observation of a non-zero value for theta13. | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=24054 |
| DOE Achievement Award | 20 June 2013 | Daya Bay wins US Energy Secretary's Achievement Award for 2012 | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=24055 |
| Breakthrough of 2012 | 21 December 2012 | "...the result suggests that in the coming decades neutrino physics will be every bit as rich as physicists had hoped - neutrino physics could be the future of particle physics as the fact that neutrinos have mass is not even part of the standard model. If so, the Daya Bay result may mark the moment when the field took off. | http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1525.full#sec-3 |
| LBNE Gets CD1 | 18 December 2012 | Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment receives Critical Decision 1 approval from the U.S. DOE. | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=23538 |
| Daya Bay Observed theta13 | 8 March 2012 | Daya Bay measures a non-zero value for theta13 at greater than 5 sigma | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11395 |
| Daya Bay starts data-taking | 15 August 2011 | The Daya Bay experiment start taking data with near site detectors. | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11318 |
| Panofsky Prize | 5 October 2010 | EDG Group Leader emeritus received the APS Panofsky Prize along with Doug Bryman and Stew Smith for the discovery of K+->pi+nunu with E787 | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11213 |
| E949 observes three more events | 18 August 2008 | E949 observes three more K+ -> pi+ nu nu events at low momentum | http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=2844 |
| Daya Bay Groundbreaking | 13 October 2007 | A groundbreaking ceremony was held at Daya Bay on October 13, 2007 | http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/news/110607/story4.asp |
| E949 observes event | 23 March 2004 | E949 observes a K+ -> pi nu nu event | http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2004/bnlpr032304b.htm |
| E787 observes second event | 10 January 2002 | E787 observes the second K+ -> pi+ nu nu event | http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr011002.htm |
| E787 event | 22 September 1997 | The E787 experiment observes the first K+ -> pi nu nu event | http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/1997/bnlpr092297a.html |
