A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will attempt to synthesize theoretical element 120 in a new national effort spearheaded by the US Department of Energy. If successful, this project would represent the 17th element discovered at UC Berkeley.
E-Mail IMAGE: The facade of the Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) on TRIUMF s campus in Vancouver, B.C., Canada view more Credit: Stu Shepherd Scientists and engineers at TRIUMF, Canada s particle accelerator centre, announced a major milestone for TRIUMF s Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL), maneuvering for the first time an isotope beam through the ARIEL-based CANREB facility and on to an experiment. The achievement marks a watershed moment for the laboratory s future-facing science program, which leverages TRIUMF s unique accelerator infrastructure to drive impact from research on short-lived rare isotopes. With this delivery of beam through CANREB, we have entered the first phase of ARIEL s science output, said Reiner Kruecken, TRIUMF Deputy Director, Research. As a globally unique multi-user isotope research facility, ARIEL will bring critical advances in our understanding of rare isotopes, which we can use to investigate the nature of matter, the origins of the universe, the next generation of nuclear medicine, and beyond.