2018 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

The President’s Budget for 2019

The FY 2019 Budget in Brief is now available.

Bringing a Hidden Superconducting State to Light

High-power light reveals the existence of superconductivity associated with charge "stripes" in the copper-oxygen planes of a layered material above the temperature at which it begins to transmit electricity without resistance.

Advancing a Legacy of Health Physics: Shaheen Dewji

Having begun her career at the lab in the nuclear nonproliferation and radiation safeguards area, Shaheen Dewji is leveraging her expertise to help expand the work of the Center for Radiation Protection Knowledge (CRPK)—a unique organization led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that focuses on preserving expertise in radiation dosimetry.

Smooth Sailing: PPPL Develops an Integrated Approach to Understand How to Better Control Instabilities in an International Fusion Device

Simulations on Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory computers show an approach for controlling instabilities in tokamaks that for the first time simultaneously simulates the plasma, the magnetic islands, and the feedback control from the waves that provide so-called electron cyclotron heating and current drive.

Particulate Filter Research May Enable More Fuel-Efficient Vehicles

A team of researchers from the Energy and Transportation Science Division at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is studying soot and ash collection and removal in particulate filters with neutron imaging, a technique sensitive enough to detect fine layers of material. Using the Neutron Imaging Facility instrument, beamline CG-1D, at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor, they are investigating the structure of particulate layers generated by a series of gasoline fuels.

From Belgrade to Berkeley: A Postdoctoral Researcher’s Path in Particle Physics

After completing her Ph.D. thesis in calculating the mass of the W boson – an elementary particle that mediates one of the universe’s fundamental forces – physics researcher Aleksandra Dimitrievska is now testing out components for a scheduled upgrade of the world’s largest particle detectors.

Missing Link to Novel Superconductivity Revealed at Ames National Laboratory

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory have discovered a state of magnetism that may be the missing link to understanding the relationship between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity.

Captured Electrons Excite Nuclei to Higher Energy States

Argonne scientists and collaborators used the Gammasphere, a powerful gamma ray spectrometer, to help create the right conditions to cause and spot a long-theorized effect called nuclear excitation by electron capture.

Neutron Study of Glaucoma Drugs Offers Clues About Enzyme Targets for Aggressive Cancers

A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron macromolecular crystallography to investigate the different states of three glaucoma drugs as they interact with the targeted enzyme, human carbonic anhydrase II (hCA II).

Narrowing in on the W Boson Mass

Scientists working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world’s largest particle collider, hosted at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory—have precisely measured the mass of the W boson, a particle that plays a weighty role in a delicate balancing act of the quantum universe.

Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a 45-Year-Old Telescope

The Mayall Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory is preparing for a year-long overhaul and installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI will use an array of 5,000 swiveling robots, each carefully choreographed to point a fiber-optic cable at a preprogrammed sequence of deep-space objects, including millions of galaxies and quasars, which are galaxies that harbor massive, actively feeding black holes.

Particle Interactions Calculated on Titan Support the Search for New Physics Discoveries

Nuclear physicists are using the nation’s most powerful supercomputer, Titan, at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to study particle interactions important to energy production in the Sun and stars and to propel the search for new physics discoveries.