Director's Corner
Powering the Future: How ATAP Researchers Aim to Bring the Sun’s Energy Down to Earth
A High-Brightness, Tunable MeV Photon Source for Radiographic Imaging and Nuclear Detection
A Novel Method for Accelerating Particle Accelerator Design
Berkeley Lab-Led Project Secures Funding to Develop a Transportable Muon Imager
ALS-United: Elmie Peoples-Evans and Fernando Sannibale
Russell Receives Award at LaserNetUS Meeting
Vazquez Takes Poster Honor at Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Nurturing Future Particle Accelerator Researchers
ATAP Summer Interns Get Hands-On Experience
University of Hawai’i Students Intern at ATAP
Graduate Students Work at ATAP
Stewardship Values: Collaboration and Team Science in Proposal Writing
3Q4: Sarah Schröder
3Q4: Jean-François Croteau
Seeking Temporary Refuge During Wildfires
Publications & Presentations
Advanced Modeling Program
Presentations
J.-L. Vay, invited poster on “AI for Particle Accelerator Science (MOAT)” at the Genesis Mission Summit 2026, Washington, DC, July 22, 2026.
J.-L. Vay, invited panel participant on “SciDAC Impact and Innovation from the Science Domains” at the SciDAC 25-Year Anniversary Session at the 2026 SciDAC Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, Rockville, MD, Aug. 4-6, 2026.
BELLA Center
Publications
B. Z. Djordjević, C. Benedetti, A. D. McNaughton, R. Lehe, H.-E. Tsai, S. C. Wilks, B. A. Reagan, G. J. Williams, J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder. “Bayesian optimization of laser wakefield acceleration via spectral pulse shaping,” Phys. Plasmas 33, 063101 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0318344
Hai-En Tsai, Tobias M. Ostermayr, Robert E. Jacob, Qiang Chen, Benjamin J. Greenwood, Robert Ettelbrick, Anthony J. Gonsalves, Kei Nakamura, Liona Fan-Chiang, Ocean Zhou, Sam K. Barber, Fumika Isono, Scott J. Thompson, James T. Johnson, Jay D. Hix, Edward Seabury, David L. Chichester, Carl B. Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Jeroen van Tilborg, and Cameron G. R. Geddes. “Stable and tunable MeV-ray generation via dual-laser inverse Thomson scattering from a laser-plasma accelerator,” Sci. Rep. 16, 24733 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-56639-7
S. V. Bulanov, S. S. Bulanov, T. Esirkepov, G. Gregori, G. M. Grittani, B. K. Russell, A. G. R. Thomas, P. Valenta. “Photon accelerator in magnetized electron-ion plasma,” New J. Phys. 28, 064302 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ae7c29
Presentations
S. Bulanov. “Optimizing Photon Collider Through Scattering Laser Wavelength Selection,” 34th Laser Physics Conference, Belen, Costa Rica, July 6-10, 2026.
S. Bulanov. “Enhancing 10 TeV gamma-gamma collider luminosity through scattering laser wavelength selection in the presence of prolific electron-positron pair production,” 22nd Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, July 26-31, 2026.
Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program
Publications
Karahadian, M. E., Colborne, M., Persaud, A., and Schenkel, T. “Enhanced nuclear fusion in the sub-keV energy regime,” Nat. Commun. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74421-1
