Berkeley Lab

2020 Publications

Accelerator Modeling Program

Felice Albert et al., including A. Huebl and J.-L. Vay (LBNL), “2020 Roadmap on Plasma Accelerators,” New Journal of Physics, in press December 2020, https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abcc62

Francis Alexander et al., incl. Jean-Luc Vay (LBNL), “Exascale applications: skin in the game,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 378, 20190056 (20 January 2020), http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0056

A. Huebl et al., “Spectral Control via Multi-Species Effects in PW-Class Laser-Ion Acceleration”, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 62, 124003 (29 October 2020), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/abbe33

Biaobin Li (National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, and LBNL) and Ji Qiang (LBNL), “Mitigation of microbunching instability in x-ray free electron laser linacs,” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23, 014403 (9 January 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.014403

Robert D. Ryne, “Muon colliders come a step closer,” Nature News and Views, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00212-3, a companion article to MICE Collaboration, incl. A. DeMello, S. Gourlay, A. Lambert, D. Li, T. Luo, S. Prestemon, and S. Virostek (LBNL), “Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment,” Nature 578 (5 February 2020), pp. 53-9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1958-9

J.-L. Vay, A. Almgren, L.D. Amorim, J. Bell (LBNL); L. Ge (SLAC); K. Gott (LBNL); D.P. Grote (LLNL); M. Hogan (SLAC); A. Huebl, R. Jambunathan, R. Lehe, A. Myers (LBNL); C. Ng (SLAC); J. Park, M. Rowan, O. Shapoval, M. Thévenet, W. Zhang, Y. Zhao and E. Zoni (LBNL), “Toward the modeling of chains of plasma accelerator stages with WarpX,” in Proceedings of the 4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (15-20 September 2019, Isola d’Elba, Italy), Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1596, 012059 (18 September 2020) edited by A. Cianchi et al., https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1596/1/012059

Invited talks without publication venue:

A. Huebl, “Future Computer & Programming Trends,” virtual talk, Snowmass21 Planning meeting (October 2020).

J.-L. Vay and A. Huebl, “Uses of in situ methods in large-scale modeling of plasma-based particle accelerators,” keynote of the virtual ISAV 2020 workshop on In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization (November 2020).

Advanced Light Source Accelerator Physics

Peng-Wei Huang (DESY, Germany; Tsinghua University, China); Houjun Qian, Ye Chen (DESY); Daniele Filippetto (LBNL); Matthias Gross, Igor Isaev, Christian Koschitzki, Mikhail Krasilnikov, Shankar Lal, Xiangkun Li, Osip Lishilin, David Melkumyan, Raffael Niemczyk, Anne Oppelt (DESY); Fernando Sannibale (LBNL); Hamed Shaker, Guan Shu, Frank Stephan (DESY); Chuanxiang Tang (Tsinghua University); Grygorii Vashchenko (DESY); and Weishi Wan (LBNL), “Single shot cathode transverse momentum imaging in high brightness photoinjectors,” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23, 043401 (9 April 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.043401

S.C. Leemann, “Applying Machine Learning to Stabilize the Source Size in the ALS Storage Ring,” oral presentation at the virtual 11th International Particle Accelerator Conference (May 10-15, 2020, Caen, France), https://www.ipac20.org/simon-leemann-lbnl/

Invited talks without publication venue:

S.C. Leemann, “Machine Learning-based Beam Size Stabilization”, invited presentation at the 9th International Beam Instrumentation Conference IBIC 2020 (September 14-18, 2020, Brazil, virtual).

S.C. Leemann, “Source Size Stabilization at the ALS Using Machine Learning”, invited presentation at the 8th Low Emittance Rings Workshop LER2020 (October 26-30, 2020, INFN, Frascati, Italy, virtual).

Berkeley Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation Program (BACI)

H. Feng (LBNL and Tsinghua University); S. De Santis, K. Baptiste (LBNL); W. Huang, C. Tang (Tsinghua University); and D. Li (LBNL), “Proposed design and optimization of a higher harmonic cavity for ALS-U,” Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 014712 (30 January 2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5135955


MICE Collaboration, incl. A. DeMello, S. Gourlay, A. Lambert, D. Li, T. Luo, S. Prestemon, and S. Virostek (LBNL), “Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment,” Nature 578 (5 February 2020), pp. 53-9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1958-9

See also the companion News and Views article: Robert D. Ryne (LBNL), “Muon colliders come a step closer,” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00212-3

Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology (BCMT)


MICE Collaboration, incl. A. DeMello, S. Gourlay, A. Lambert, D. Li, T. Luo, S. Prestemon, and S. Virostek (LBNL), “Demonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment,” Nature 578 (5 February 2020), pp. 53-9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1958-9

Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center (BELLA)

S.K. Barber, J.H. Bin, A.J. Gonsalves, F. Isono, J. van Tilborg, S. Steinke, K. Nakamura, A. Zingale, N.A. Czapla, D. Schumacher, C.B. Schroeder, C.G.R. Geddes, W.P. Leemans, E. Esarey, “A compact, high resolution energy, and emittance diagnostic for electron beams using active plasma lenses,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 234108 (8 June 2020).

Benedetti, C.; Schroeder, C.B.; Geddes, C.G.R.; Esarey, E.; Leemans, W.P.; “An accurate and efficient laser-envelope solver for the modeling of laser-plasma accelerators” (a correction to a 2018 paper), Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 62, 089501 (August 2020).


T.G. Blackburn (University of Gothenburg); D. Seipt (University of Michigan); S.S. Bulanov (LBNL); and M. Marklund (University of Gothenburg), “Radiation beaming in the quantum regime,” Physical Review A 101, 012505 (10 January 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.012505

S.V. Bulanov (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project; Kansai Photon Science Institute; and Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS); P V. Sasorov (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project; and Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics); F. Pegoraro (Univ. of Pisa); H. Kadlecová ((Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project); S.S. Bulanov (LBNL); T. Zh. Esirkepov (Kansai Photon Science Institute); N.N. Rosanov (Vavilov State Optical Institute; University ITMO; and Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia); and G. Korn (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project), “Electromagnetic Solitons in Quantum Vacuum,” Phys. Rev. D 101, 016016 (28 January 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.016016

S. Diederichs (University of Hamburg and LBNL); C. Benedetti, E. Esarey (LBNL); J. Osterhoff (DESY); C.B. Schroeder (LBNL), “High-Quality Positron Acceleration in Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators,” Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23, 121301 (3 December 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.121301

A.J. Gonsalves, K. Nakamura, C. Benedetti, C.V. Pieronek, S. Steinke, J.H. Bin, S.S. Bulanov, J. van Tilborg, C.G.R. Geddes, C.B. Schroeder, J. Daniels, Cs. Toth, L. Obst- Huebl, R.G.W. van den Berg, G. Bagdasarov, N. Bobrova, V. Gasilov, G. Korn, P. Sasorov, W. P. Leemans, E. Esarey, “Laser-heated capillary discharge plasma waveguides for electron acceleration to 8 GeV,” Phys. Plasmas 27, 053102 (May 2020).

Tae Moon Jeong (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project); Sergei Vladimirovich Bulanov (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project; Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan; and Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS); Pavel Vasilievich Sasorov (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project); Stepan Sergeevich Bulanov (LBNL); James Kevin Koga (Kansai Photon Science Institute); and Georg Korn (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project), “4π-spherically focused electromagnetic wave: diffraction optics approach and high-power limits,” Optics Express 28, 9 (27 April 2020), pp. 13991-14006, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.387654

James K. Koga (Kansai Photon Science Institute); Masakatsu Murakami (Osaka University); Alexey V.Arefiev (University of California, San Diego); Yoshihide Nakamiya (ELI Nuclear Physics); Stepan S. Bulanov (LBNL); Sergei V.Bulanov (Kansai Photon Science Institute and ELI Beamlines) “Electron-Positron Pair Creation in the Electric Fields Generated by Micro-bubble Implosions”, Physics Letters A 384, 34 (4 December 2020), 126854, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2020.126854

O.G. Olkhovskaya, G.A. Bagdasarov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow); N.A. Bobrova (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Czech Technical University in Prague); V.A. Gasilov (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics); L.V.N. Goncalves, C.M. Lazzarini (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project, Prague); M. Nevrkla (Czech Technical University in Prague; Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project); G. Grittani (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project, Prague); S.S. Bulanov, A.G. Gonsalves, C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey (LBNL); W.P. Leemans (DESY, Germany); P.V. Sasorov (Czech Technical University in Prague; Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project); S.V. Bulanov (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project; Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan; and Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS);; and Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS);and G. Korn (Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (FZU), ELI-Beamlines Project, Prague), “Plasma channel formation in the knife-like focus of laser beam”, Journal of Plasma Physics 86, 3 (2 June 2020), 905860307, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377820000458

T.M. Ostermayr (LBNL); C. Kreuzer, F. S. Englbrecht, J. Gebhard, J. Hartmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); A. Huebl (LBNL); D. Haffa, P. Hilz, K. Parodi, J. Wenz (LMU-München); M.E. Donovan, G. Dyer, E. Gaul, J. Gordon, M. Martinez, E. Mccary, M. Spinks, G. Tiwari, B.M. Hegelich (University of Texas at Austin); J. Schreiber (LMU-München and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik), “Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging”, Nature Communications 11, 6174 (3 December 2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19838-y
See feature story in ATAP News

J. Park, J.H. Bin, S. Steinke, Q. Ji, S.S. Bulanov, M. Thevenet, J.-L. Vay, T. Schenkel, C.G.R. Geddes, C.B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, “Target normal sheath acceleration with a large laser focal diameter,” Physics of Plasmas 27, 123104 (21 December 2020), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0020609

S. Steinke, J.H. Bin, J. Park, Q. Ji, K. Nakamura, A.J. Gonsalves, S.S. Bulanov, M. Thevenet, C. Toth, J.-L. Vay, C.B. Schroeder, C.G.R. Geddes, E. Esarey, T. Schenkel, W.P. Leemans, “Acceleration of high charge ion beams with achromatic divergence by petawatt laser pulses,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 23, 021302 (Feb. 19, 2020).

P. Zhang (Michigan State University); S.S. Bulanov (LBNL); D. Seipt (University of Michigan); A.V. Arefiev (University of California, San Diego); and A.G.R. Thomas (University of Michigan), “Relativistic Plasma Physics in Supercritical Fields,” Physics of Plasmas 27, 5 (26 May 2020), 050601, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144449
Invited perspective paper for Physics of Plasmas, also featured in a press release by the American Institute of Physics.

Invited talks without publication venue:

S.S. Bulanov, “Multiple Colliding Laser Pulses as a Basis for Studying High-field High-energy Physics,” virtual ELI Beamlines User Conference 2020 (12-14 October 2020).

Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program


Yuetao Hou, Sreyam Sinha, Di Ni (Cornell University); Qing Ji, Arun Persaud, Peter Seidl, Thomas Schenkel, (LBNL); Amit Lal, Khurram K. Afridi (Cornell University), “A 50-MHz Kilovolt-Scale Power Amplifier for Ion-Beam Accelerator Utilizing an Optimized Toroidal Inductor,” Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, 11-15 October 2020, added to IEEE Xplore 30 October 2020, 10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236076

Nikola Maksimovic, Ian M. Hayes, Vikram Nagarajan, James G. Analytis (University of California, Berkeley and LBNL); Alexei E. Koshelev (ANL); John Singleton (LANL); Yeonbae Lee and Thomas Schenkel (LBNL), “Magnetoresistance Scaling and the Origin of H-Linear Resistivity in BaFe2(As1−xPx)2,” Physical Review X 10, 041062 (29 December 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041062


V. Ranjan (CEA Saclay; J. O’Sullivan (University College London); E. Albertinale, B. Albanese (CEA Saclay); T. Chanelière (Université Grenoble Alpes); T. Schenkel (LBNL); D. Vion, D. Esteve, E. Flurin (CEA Saclay); J.J.L. Morton (University College London); and P. Bertet (CEA Saclay), “Multimode Storage of Quantum Microwave Fields in Electron Spins over 100 ms,” Physical Review Letters 125, 210505 (20 November 2020), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.210505

Cover of Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 184002

Cover story

V. Ranjan, S. Probst, B. Albanese (CEA Saclay); T. Schenkel (LBNL); D. Vion, D. Esteve (CEA Saclay); J.J.L. Morton (University College London); and P. Bertet (CEA Saclay), “Electron spin resonance spectroscopy with femtoliter detection volume,” Applied Physics Letters 116, 184002 (4 May 2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004322


K. Schoenberg (FAIR and TU-Darmstadt, Germany); V. Bagnoud (GSI and Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany); A. Blazevic (GSI); V.E. Fortov (Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences); D.O. Gericke (University of Warwick, UK); A. Golubev, (Kurchatov Institute and MePHI, Russoa ); D.H.H. Hoffmann (Xi’an Jiatong University); D, Kraus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and TU-Dresden); I.V. Lomonosov, V. Mintsev (Institute of the Problems of Chemical Physics, Russia); S. Neff (FAIR); P. Neumayer (GSI); A.R. Piriz (INEI, Spain, and Univ. Rostock, Germany); R. Redmer (Univ. Rostock, Germany); O. Rosmej (GSI); M. Roth (FAIR and TU-Darmstadt); T. Schenkel (LBNL); B. Sharkov (JINR Dubna, Russia); N.A. Tahir (GSI); D. Varentsov (GSI); Y. Zhao (Xi’an Jiatong University), “High-energy-density-science capabilities at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research,” Physics of Plasmas 27, 4 (April 6, 2020), 043103, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5134846


Sreyam Sinha, Yuetao Hou, Di Ni (Cornell University); Qing Ji, Arun Persaud, Peter Seidl; T. Schenkel (LBNL); Amit Lal, Khurram K. Afridi (Cornell University), “A 27.12-MHz 10-kV Power Amplifier for Compact Particle Accelerators Utilizing an Optimized Matching Network,” Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, 11-15 October 2020, added to IEEE Xplore 30 October 2020, pp. 5452-5457, https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236008