Berkeley Lab Heavy Element Group

Welcome to the Heavy Element Group, part of the Nuclear Science Division (NSD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Heavy Element group runs a research program centered on studying the nuclear and chemical properties of the heaviest elements with Z≥100. These elements do not exist naturally here on Earth and must be made in particle accelerators. Our research is primarily carried out at our local facility, the 88-Inch Cyclotron at LBNL where we have the capabilities to make and then study these rare heavy elements.