The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Cyclotron has been operating for over 50 years, but it’s still finding useful and exciting applications in the 21st Century.

Victoria Strait has received a Graduate Student Travel Award from the Office of Graduate Studies.

Read the Fall 2019 Department of Physics Newsletter.

UC Davis Physics Adjunct Professor Kai Liu was recently elected Fellow of the AAAS. The full list of elected fellows is available at https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2019-fellows Congratulations, Kai!

Eric Prebys, Professor of Physics and Director of the UC Davis Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, is leading a project to develop a new tool based on synthetic diamond semiconductors that will be used to evaluate the performance of particle accelerators and X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers, known as XFELs. Collaborating institutions for the advanced detectors project include UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "This project leverages the unique expertise at each of the collaborating universities and labs, particularly the expertise in diamond detector development at Los Alamos" said Prebys. "I'm very excited to be working with these institutions and this group of collaborators."

Softball team “Bad News Bosons,” which has a long history with members of the Physics Department, recently won a tournament in Sacramento that consisted of league winners from all over the greater Sacramento area.

Graduate student Geoff Chen, Professor Chris Fassnacht, and colleagues published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describing their work on estimating the Hubble constant.

Dr. Gong Chen, Project Scientist in the UC Davis Physics Department, submitted his Spin polarized LEEM image to the Molecular Foundry nanoscience research facility at Berkeley Lab as part of their National Nano Day celebration.