2023 Publications

Indicating the collaborative nature of our work, many of these papers have a corresponding author outside LBNL. These are indicated with italics.

ACCELERATOR MODELING PROGRAM

T. Barklow, S. Gessner, M. Hogan, C.-K. Ng, M. Peskin, T. Raubenheimer, G. White, E. Adli, G. J. Cao, C. A. Lindstrøm, K. Sjobak, S. Barber, C. Geddes, A. Formenti, R. Lehe, C. Schroeder, D. Terzani, J. van Tilborg, J.-L. Vay, E. Zoni, C. Doss, M. Litos, I. Lobach, J. Power, M. Swiatlowski, L. Fedeli, H. Vincenti, T. Grismayer, M. Vranic, and W. Zhang. “Beam delivery and beamstrahlung considerations for ultra-high energy linear colliders”, JINST 18 P09022 (2023), http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/09/P09022

A. Ferran Pousa, S. Jalas, M. Kirchen, A. Martinez de la Ossa, M. Thévenet, S. Hudson, J. Larson, A. Huebl, J.-L. Vay, and R. Lehe. “Bayesian optimization of laser-plasma accelerators assisted by reduced physical models,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams26, 084601, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.084601

Qiang, J. “A parallel variable population multi-objective optimizer for accelerator beam dynamics optimization,” Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A 1054, 168402 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168402

Schroeder, C.B., Albert, F., Benedetti, C., Bromage, J., Bruhwiler, D., Bulanov, S. S., Campbell, E.M., Cook, N. M., Cros, B., Downer, M. C., Esarey, E., Froula, D. H., Fuchs, M., Geddes, C. G. R., Gessner, S. J., Gonsalves, A. J., Hogan, M. J., Hooker, S. M., Huebl, A., Jing, C., Joshi, C., Krushelnick, K., Leemans, W. P., Lehe, R., Maier, A. R., Milchberg, H. M., Mori, W. B., Nakamura, K., Osterhoff, J., Palastro, J. P., Palmer, M., Põder, K., Power, J. G., Shadwick, B. A., Terzani, D., Thévenet, M., Thomas, A. G. R., van Tilborg, J., Turner, M., Vafaei-Najafabadi, N., Vay, J.-L., Zhou, T., and Zuegel, J. “Linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators”, JINST 18 T06001 (2023). https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/06/T06001

Ma, T., Betti, R., Karasik, M., Glenzer, S., Kline, J., Hurricane, O., Geddes, C., Patel, P., Haefner, C., Payne, S., Farrell, M., Harding, D., Snead, L., Shmayda, W., Dunne, M., Bahukutumbi, R., Vay, J.-L., Hittinger, J., Woodruff, S., Gatu-Johnson, M., Gleason, A., Schumacher, D., Falcone, R., Tang, V., Campbell, M., Wei, M., Dominguez, A., Akli, K., and Van Dam, J. Report of the 2022 Fusion Energy Sciences Basic Research Needs Workshop, 2023. https://science.osti.gov/-/media/fes/pdf/workshop-reports/2023/IFE-Basic-Research-Needs-Final-Report.pdf

Bourne, E., Leleux, P., Kormann, K., Kruse, C., Grandgirard, V., Güçlü, Y., Kühn, M. J., Rüde, U., Sonnendrücker, E., and Zoni, E. “Solver comparison for Poisson-like equations on tokamak geometries,” J. Comput. Phys. 488, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112249

Qiang, J. and Wang, E. “Simulation of shot noise effects in the EIC strong hadron cooling accelerator using real number of electrons,” in Proceedings of IPAC2023, WEPA041.

Sandberg, R., Lehe, R., Mitchell, C., Garten, M., Qiang, J., Vay, J.-L., and Huebl, A. “Hybrid Beamline Element ML-Training for Surrogates in the ImpactX Beam-Dynamics Code,” in Proceedings of IPAC2023, WEPA101.

Qiang, J. “Differentiable self-consistent space-charge simulation for accelerator design,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 26 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.024601

Huebl. A. and Vay, J.-L. “Accessible Exascale Simulation Tools for Particle Accelerators and Beams,” APS-DPB Newsletter (2023), https://engage.aps.org/dpb/resources/newsletters

Fedeli, L., Huebl, A., Boillod-Cerneux, F., Clark, T., Gott, K., Hillairet, C., Jaure, S., Leblanc, A., Lehe, R., Myers, A., Piechurski, C., Sato, M., Zaim, N., Zhang, W., Vay, J.-L., and Vincenti, H. “Pushing the Frontier in the Design of Laser-Based Electron Accelerators with Groundbreaking Mesh-Refined Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Exascale-Class Supercomputers,” SC22: International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC). ISSN:2167-4337, pp. 25-36, Dallas, TX, US (2022), https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10046112

Presentations

Vay, J.-L. and Huebl, A. “Then & Now: From Warp to WarpX,” 2023 Exascale Computing Project Annual Meeting, Houston, Jan. 17-20, 2023 (invited).

Huebl, A. “Particle applications giving updates on their progress and challenges preparing for exascale, with emphasis on performance results from the OLCF Crusher testbed (and Frontier as available),” 2023 Exascale Computing Project Annual Meeting, Houston, Jan. 17-20, 2023 (invited).

Qiang, J., lectures on “Physics of High Brightness Electron Beam” and “High Performance Computing in Accelerators,” Summer School on Free Electron Lasers 2023, 3-7 July 2023, NSRRC, Taiwan (invited).

Huebl, A. “The Beam, Plasma & Accelerator Simulation Toolkit (BLAST) at Exascale,” PASC23, MS: Exascale Plasma Simulations, Methods and Technologies for Fusion, Plasma Accelerator and Space Physics Research, Davos, Switzerland, June 26, 2023 (invited)

Huebl, A. “How Human-centered Tools and Processes Can Improve Software Development,” PASC23, MS: Code Complete and More: Emerging Efforts to Improve Software Quality, Davos, Switzerland, June 28, 2023 (invited)

Vay, J.-L. “Modeling of plasmas with the BLAST toolkit code WarpX,” Plasma Science and Technology Seminar, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering (Stanford University) and Photon Science (SLAC), Stanford University, June 1, 2023 (invited)

Huebl, A. “Particle Accelerator & Laser-Plasma Modeling on Frontier,” AMD HPC Applications Webinar, USA (virtual), May 19, 2023 (invited)

Vay, J.-L., and Huebl, A. “Modeling of Advanced-Concepts of Particle Accelerators at the Exascale,” Guest lecture (virtual) at CSE 6230 course on HPC Tools and Applications, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, April 13, 2023

Vay, J.-L. “Introduction to the Exascale electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell code WarpX with focus on mesh refinement capabilities,” Joint Princeton Gravity Initiative/Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Workshop on New perspectives in numerical methods for high-energy multiscale astrophysics, Princeton, NJ, April 24-26, 2023

Vay, J.-L. “Simulation challenges for a multi-stage plasma accelerator”, ALEGRO 2023, DESY Hamburg, Germany, March 22-24, 2023 (invited).

Huebl, A., et al. “Our Road to Exascale: Particle Accelerator & Laser-Plasma Modeling”, ECP Webinar Series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, March 15, 2023, virtual, USA (invited).

Lehe, R. “Particle-In-Cell simulations in Plasma Acceleration” lecture series, Heraeus seminar on Plasma Acceleration, Bad Honnef Physics School, Bad Honnef, Germany, Feb. 5-10, 2023 (invited).

Huebl, A. “Particle Accelerator & Laser-Plasma Modeling at Exascale”, in “IAS Seminar Series”, Juelich, Feb 23, 2023, virtual in Germany (invited).

Huebl, A. “ATAP All2All Seminar: Exascale Modeling for Particle Accelerators”, in “ATAP seminars”, LBNL, Jan 30, 2023 in Berkeley, USA (invited).

Huebl. A., et al. “Performance Portable Implementations of Particle-in-Cell Methods”, MS373 session organization and opener talk, 2023 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, February 27, 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands (invited).

New preprints

Huebl, A., et al., “From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale”, AAC22 proceedings, invited plenary, 2023, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12873

Zaïm, N., Sainte-Marie, A., Fedeli, L., Bartoli, P., Huebl, A., Vay, J.-L., and Vincenti, H. “Light-Matter Interaction Near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers,” 2023, https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17581

Posters

Vay, J.-L., Huebl, A., et al. “WarpX in ECP: Now and Then”, in “ECP Annual Meeting,” Jan. 16, 2023, in Houston, TX, USA

Software Releases

Huebl, A., Poeschel, F., Koller, F., and Gu, J. “openPMD-api 0.15.0: C++ & Python API for Scientific I/O with openPMD,” 2023, https://rodare.hzdr.de/record/1234

Advanced Light Source Accelerator Physics

Lu, Y., Leemann, S. C., Sun, C., Ehrlichman, M. P., Nishimura, H., Venturini, M., and T. Hellert, “Demonstration of machine learning-enhanced multi-objective optimization of ultrahigh-brightness lattices for 4th-generation synchrotron light sources,” Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168192

Sannibale, F. “High-Brightness Electron Injectors for High-Duty Cycle X-Ray Free Electron Lasers,” Front. Phys. Sec. Interdisciplinary Physics 11, 2023.

Presentations

Sannibale, F. “High-Brightness Electron Injectors for High-Duty-Cycle X-Ray Free Electron Lasers (Part 1 and Part 2)”, at FRIB APES Seminar, Michigan State University, April 7 and 24, 2023.

S.C. Leemann. “Machine Learning Applications for Performance Improvement and Developing Future Storage Ring Light Sources,” 67th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Future Light Sources: FLS 2023, Lucerne, Switzerland, Aug 27 – Sep 1, https://indico.jacow.org/event/51/, http://jacow.web.psi.ch/fls23/wgb/TU3B/21_S_Leemann.PDF

T. Hellert. “Recent Developments of the Toolkit for Simulated Commissioning.,” 67th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Future Light Sources: FLS 2023, Lucerne, Switzerland, Aug 27 – Sep 1, 2023, https://indico.jacow.org/event/51/, http://fls2023.vrws.de/talks/tu3b2_talk.pdf

Book contribution

F. Sannibale, Section 7.1.1.5 of the 3rd edition of the Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering. Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Section title: Normal Conducting Photo rf Guns. Published on February 2, 2023, ISBN: 9789811270154, ISBN-10: 9811270155.

BELLA Center

Refereed literature

Berger, C., Barber, S., Isono, F., Jensen, J., Natal. J., Gonsalves, A., and van Tilborg, J. “Active nonperturbative stabilization of the laser-plasma-accelerated electron beam source,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 26 (2023), DOI: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.032801

Cropp, F., Moos, L., Scheinker, A. Gilardi, A., Wang, D., Paiagua, S., Serrano, C., Musumeci, P., and Filippetto, D. “Virtual-diagnostic-based time stamping for ultrafast electron diffraction,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams (2023), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.04916

Chen, S., Zhou, T., Du, Q., Wang, D., Gilardi, A., Vay, J.-L., Li, D., van Tilborg, J., Schroeder, C., Esarey, E., Wilcox, Geddes, R. G. “Broadband spectral combining of three pulse-shaped fiber amplifiers with 42 fs compressed pulse duration,” Optics Express 31 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.486884
K. Russell, P. T. Campbell, Q. Qian, J. Cardarelli, S. S. Bulanov, S. V. Bulanov, G. M. Grittani, D. Seipt, L. Willingale, and A. G. R. Thomas. “Ultrafast relativistic electron probing of extreme magnetic fields,” Phys. Plasmas 30, 093105 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163392

Marklund, M., Blackburn, T. G., Gonoskov, A., Magnusson, J., Bulanov, S. S., and Ilderton, A. “Towards critical and supercritical electromagnetic fields,” High Power Laser Science and Engineering 11, e19 (2023), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.11720

Amorim, L. D., Benedetti, C., Bulanov, S. S., Terzani, D., Huebl, A., Schroeder, C. B., Vay, J.-L., Esarey, E. “Design study for a compact, two-stage, laser-plasma-based source of positron beams,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 65, 085016 (2023), http://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ace3f1

Diederichs, S., Benedetti, C., Esarey, E., Thevenet, M., Sinn, A., Osterhoff, J., and Schroeder, C. B. “Temperature effects in plasma-based positron acceleration schemes using electron filaments,” Phys. Plasmas 30, 073104 (2023), http://doi.org/10.1063/5.0155489

Lıgia D. Amorim, Carlo Benedetti, Stepan S. Bulanov, Davide Terzani, Axel Huebl, Carl B. Schroeder, Jean-Luc Vay, Eric Esarey, “Design study for a compact, two-stage, laser-plasma- based source of positron beams,” Plasma Phys. Control Fusion 65, 085016 (2023)

Presentations
Bulanov, S. “Strong Field QED Studies at PW-Class Laser Facilities and Beyond,” 53rd Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, Jan. 9-13, 2023.

High energy physics studies at PW-class laser and advanced accelerator linear collider facilities, 2023 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2023), May 15-19, 2023, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA

High energy physics studies at PW-class laser and advanced accelerator linear collider facilities, 79th Fujihara seminar: Prospects for High-Field Science, 7/10-7/13/2023, Awaji Yumebutai, Hyogo, Japan

Berkeley Accelerator Controls & Instrumentation (BACI) Program

Chen, S., Zhou, T., Du, Q., Wang, D., Gilardi, A., Vay, J.-L., Li, D., van Tilborg, J., Schroeder, C., Esarey, E., Wilcox, R., and Geddes, C. “Broadband spectral combining of three pulse-shaped fiber amplifiers with 42fs compressed pulse duration,” Optics Express 31, (2023),
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-31-8-12717&id=528752

Presentations

Luo, T. “Design and fabrication of RF cavities for muon cooling,” International Muon Collider Collaboration annual meeting, June 20th, 2023, Orsay, France (invited)

Luo, T. “Muon collider and synergies with Linear Collider,” invited talk at Linear Collider Workshop 2023.

Luo, T. “Normal conducting RF cavities for muon ionization cooling,” contributed to P5 Town Hall meeting at SLAC.

Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology

Hou, Y., Garud, M., Ji, Q., Persaud, A., Seidl, P., Schenkel, T., Lal, A., and Afridi, K. “Vertically Stacked Piezoelectric Transformer for High-Frequency Power Amplifier,” 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 392-396.

Engel, J., Jhuria, K., Polley, D., Lühmann, T., Kuhrke, M., Liu, W., Bokor, J., Schenkel, T., and Wunderlich, R. “Combining femtosecond laser annealing and shallow ion implantation for local color center creation in diamond,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 122 (23), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0143922

Y. Hou, M. Garud, Q. Ji, T. Schenkel, A. Lal, and K. Afridi. “High-Frequency Power Amplifier Using a Piezoelectric Transformer with Scalable Voltage Gain,” 2023 IEEE 24th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL52896.2023.10221111

W. Redjem, Y. Zhiyenbayev, W. Qarony, V. Ivanov, C. Papapanos, W. Liu, K. Jhuria, Z. Y. Al Balushi, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg, L. Z. Tan, T. Schenkel, and B. Kanté. “All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity,” Nat. Commun.14, 3321 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38559-6

J. Engel, K. Jhuria, D. Polley, T. Lühmann, M. Kuhrke, W. Liu, J. Bokor, T. Schenkel, and R. Wunderlich. “Combining femtosecond laser annealing and shallow ion implantation for local color center creation in diamond,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 5 June 2023; 122 (23): 234002. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0143922

W. Redjem, A. J. Amsellem, F. I., Allen, V. Ivanov, C. Papapanos, W. Liu, K. Jhuria, Z. Y. Al Balushi, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg, L. Z. Tan, T. Schenkel, and B. Kante. “Defect engineering of silicon with ion pulses from laser acceleration,” Commun Mater 4, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-023-00349-4

T. Schenkel, A. M. Snijders, K. Nakamura, P. A. Seidl, B. Mak, L. Obst-Huebl, H. Knobel, I. Pong, A. Persaud, J. van Tilborg, T. Ostermayr, S. Steinke, E. A. Blakely, Q. Ji, A. Javey, R. Kapadia, C. G. R. Geddes, and E. Esarey. “Carbon nanotube substrates enhance SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ion yields in matrix-assisted laser desorption–ionization mass spectrometry,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 30 January, 2023; 122 (5): 050601, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0128667

W. Liu, V. Ivanov, K. Jhuria, Q. Ji, A. Persaud, W. Redjem, J. Simoni, Y. Zhiyenbayev, B. Kante, J. Garcia Lopez, L. Z. Tan, and T. Schenkel. “Quantum Emitter Formation Dynamics and Probing of Radiation-Induced Atomic Disorder in Silicon,” Phys. Rev. Applied20, 014058 – Published 26 July, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014058

Y. Zhiyenbayev, W. Redjem, V. Ivanov, W. Qarony, C. Papapanos, J. Simoni, W. Liu, K. Jhuria, L. Z. Tan, T. Schenkel, and B. Kante. “Scalable manufacturing of quantum light emitters in silicon under rapid thermal annealing,” Opt. Express31, 8352-8362 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.482311

Presentations

Q. Ji, N. Valverde, S. Lund, A. Persaud, A. Lal, K. Afridi, Y. Hou, M. Vikas Garud, J. Andreasson, L. Raymond, W. Liang, and T. Schenkel. “Multi-beam accelerator development towards efficient heavy ion fusion drivers and applications in materials processing,” 12th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, September 25-29, 2023, in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Liu, W., Jhuria J., Ji, Q., Persaud, A., Ivanov, V., Redjem, W., Zhiyenbayev, Y., Qarony, W., Kanté, B., Tan, L. Z., Geddes, C., Ostermayr, T., Jacob, R., van Tilborg, J., Gonsalves, A., Obst-Huebl, L., Hakimi, S., Bagnoud, V., Hornung, J., Boller, P., and Schenkel, T. “Laser ion doping and qubit synthesis in semiconductors,” LaserNetUS User’s Meeting, June 27-29, 2023, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Jhuria, K., Persaud, A., Papapanos, C. Polley, D., Bokor, J., Hornung, J., van Tilborg, J., Tan, L. Z., Boller, P., Parajuli, P., Ji, Q., Jacob, R., Ostermayr, T., Ivanov, V., Bagnoud, V., Redjem, W., Qarony, W., Liu, W., Zhiyenbayev, Y., Raitses, Y., Kanté, B., and Schenkel, T. “Spin-photon Qubit Synthesis and Characterization with Plasmas, Ion Beams, and Lasers,” Invited talk (In-person) at IUMRS-ICAM ICMAT June 26, 2023, in Singapore.

Rangelow, I., Persaud, A., Schenkel, T., Durrani, Z., Jones, M., Jamieson, D., Jakob, A., Mankse, E., Froehlich, T., Kissinger, T., Meijer, J., Pietscher, H.-G., Dietrich, F., Reichert, R., Karpuzov, D. “Single Dopant Atom Lithography for the Fabrication of Atomic-scale Electronic Devices and Quantum Systems,” Invited talk (In-person) at IUMRS-ICAM ICMAT June 26, 2023, in Singapore.

Schenkel, T. “Defect Engineering of Silicon with Ion Pulses from Laser Acceleration,” Invited talk (In-person) at IUMRS-ICAM ICMAT June 26, 2023, in Singapore.

Superconducting Magnet Program

José Luis Rudeiros Fernández and Paolo Ferracin, “Uni-layer magnets: a new concept for LTS and HTS based superconducting magnets,” Supercond. Sci. Technol. 36 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/acc281