Director's Corner

The Final Magnet for the High-Luminosity Upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider Leaves Berkeley Lab

AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators

A New Way to View Shockwaves Could Boost Fusion Research

Leading the Field in Magnets

Agentic AI Enables Advanced Light Source Experiments

Modeling Laser-Based Particle Acceleration for Muon Production

Using Artificial Intelligence to Stabilize High-Power Lasers for Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Researcher works at a computer equipment rack

AI Copilot Keeps Berkeley’s X-Ray Particle Accelerator on Track

Berkeley Lab Hosts Agentic AI for User Facilities Workshop

Formenti Receives Teaching Scholars Recognition

John Byrd selected as New Director of the US Particle Accelerator School

The Spirit of Service: Supporting Innovation in Scientific Research

3Q4: Jared De Chant

3Q4: George Fraley

Integrated Safety Management Keeps Safety Close to the Experiment

Announcing Multi-Lab Safety Week 2026: June 9-12

Publications & Presentations

 

Advanced Modeling Program

Publications

J. Qiang. “Two-and-a-half dimensional symplectic space-charge solver,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 28, 114602, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/npx1-nclt

Advanced Light Source Accelerator Physics Program

Publications

Thorsten Hellert, Drew Bertwistle, Simon C. Leemann, Antonin Sulc, and Marco Venturini. “Agentic artificial intelligence for multistage physics experiments at a large-scale user facility particle accelerator,” Phys. Rev. Research 8, L012017 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1103/jtqy-9jz1

Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program

Publications

Hanbin Song, Xueyue Zhang, Lukasz Komza, Niccolo Fiaschi, Yihuang Xiong, Yiyang Zhi, Scott Dhuey, Adam Schwartzberg, Thomas Schenkel, Geoffroy Hautier, Zi-Huai Zhang, and Alp Sipahigil. “Entanglement of a nuclear spin qubit register in silicon photonics,” Nature Nanotechnology 21, 53–57 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-02066-0