Miguel Arratia and Shawn Westerdale have each been awarded $875,000 over five years

Team included undergraduate and graduate students

Sean Preins and Peter Carney won two of only three awards given at the 2023 Electron-Ion Collider User Group meeting

Now at Jefferson National Laboratory, the prototype will travel to two other national laboratories for testing

UC Riverside is the lead institution of a grant from the Department of Energy, or DOE, to use machine learning techniques to optimize the design of the ATHENA detector, one of the proposed experiments for the future Electron-Ion Collider, or EIC. The research team, which includes members from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence...