Director's Corner
Accelerating Our Understanding Of Radiation Effects In Silicon
Coupling Particle-In-Cell And Monte Carlo Collisions To Improve The Accuracy of Numerical Simulations
Fiber-Optic Sensing Key To Unlocking Potential Of High-Field Magnets For Fusion And Future Colliders
Using Mesh Refinement To Accurately Simulate Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection In Plasmas
Plasma Channel Guides Electrons To 10 GeV
Esarey Receives U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize
Recruiting Veterans To Berkeley Lab
Berkeley Lab Hosts High School STEM Days
James Logan High School Students Visit Berkeley Lab
Social Media Highlights
Appreciation: A Core Stewardship Value
Trust In The Workplace
3Q4: Aodhan McIlvenny
3Q4: Michele Pixa
Save The Date: June 10-13, 2025, Multi-Lab Safety Week
Publications & Presentations
Advanced Modeling Program
Publications
R. Lehe, B. Miao B, J.E. Shrock, and B. Hidding. “Summary of Working Group 1: Laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration,” NIMA, 1072:170133 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.170133
J.-L. Vay, J. R. Angus, O. Shapoval, R. Lehe, D. P. Grote, and A. Huebl. “Energy-Preserving Coupling of Explicit Particle-In-Cell with Monte Carlo Collisions,” Phys. Rev. E 111, 025306 (2025).
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025306
M. Thévenet, I. A. Andriyash, L. Fedeli, A. Ferran Pousa, A. Huebl, S. Jalas, M. Kirchen, R. Lehe, R. J. Shalloo, A. Sinn, and J.-L. Vay. “LASY: LAser manipulations made easy,” Proc. 6th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (EAAC2024), 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03968
Presentations
J.-L. Vay. “Energy-Preserving Coupling of Explicit Particle-In-Cell with Monte Carlo Collisions,” UK Atomic Energy Authority Computing Division Technical Meeting, March 25, 2025.
J.-L. Vay. “Thoughts on framework for start-to-end modeling, optimization & design,” ALEGRO 2025, SLAC, Menlo Park, CA, USA, March 4-6, 2025.
BACI Program
Presentations
Dan Wang, Qiang Du, Alessio Amodio, Neel Rajeshbhai Vora, Mahek Logantha, Tong Zhou, Siyun Chen, Fainting Kong, Jens Osterhoff, Qing Ji, Curtis Berger, Hai-En Tsai, Samuel Barber, Jeroen van Tilborg, Alex Picksley, Zak Eisentraut, Anthony Gonsalves, Larry Doolittle, and Russell Wilcox (Berkeley Lab); and Zhe Zhang and Xiaobiao Huang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory). “Machine Learning Enhanced Deterministic Feedback Controls in Lasers and Accelerators,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 20, 2025.
Gang Huang, Yilun Xu, Neelay Fruitwala, Abhi Rajagopala, Akel Hashim, Larry Chen, Kasra Nowrouzi, David Santiago, and Irfan Siddiqi. “QubiC update 2025: expandability, versatility, modularity and usability,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 20, 2025.
Yilun Xu, Neel Vora, Gang Huang, Neelay Fruitwala, Abhi Rajagopala, Akel Hashim, Anastasiia Butko, Jan Balewski, Kasra Nowrouzi, David Santiago, and Irfan Siddiqi. “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in QubiC,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 20, 2025.
Neel Vora, Yilun Xu, Gang Huang, Neelay Fruitwala, Qing Ji, David Santiago, and Irfan Siddiqi. “FPGA-based In-situ Learning for Real-time Quantum State Discrimination on QubiCM,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 20, 2025.
Neelay Fruitwala, Akel Hashim, Abhi Rajagopala, Yilun Xu, Jordan Hines, Ravi Naik, Irfan Siddiqi, Katherine Klymko, Gang Huang, and Kasra Nowrouzi. “Hardware Efficient Randomized Compiling,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 20, 2025.
Wei Liu, Arun Persaud, Kaushalya Jhuria, Qing Ji , Edward Barnard, Shaul Aloni , Hunter Ocker , Nishanth Anand , Saahit Mogan , Zhao Hao, and Thomas Schenkel (Berkeley Lab); Aleksi Leino and Chloé Nozais, and Flyura Djurabekova (University of Helsinki); and Maria Eugenia Toimil-Molares (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung). “Self-aligned quasi-1D spin arrays of NV centers created via swift heavy ion irradiation for quantum information processing,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 20, 2025.
BELLA Center
Publications
J. De Chant, K. Nakamura, Q. Ji, L. Obst-Huebl, S. Barber, A. M. Snijders, T. Schenkel, C. G. R. Geddes, J. van Tilborg, A. Gonsalves, C. B. Schroeder, and E. Esarey. “Modeling and design of compact, permanent-magnet transport systems for highly divergent, broad energy spread laser-driven proton beams,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 28, 033501 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.28.033501
Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program
Presentations
Wei Liu. “Self-aligned quasi-1D spin arrays of NV centers created via swift heavy ion irradiation for quantum information processing,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 16-21, 2025.
Amanda Hebert. “A superconducting phase in laser-ion doped diamond,” American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, California, US, March 16- 21, 2025.