Director's Corner

The Challenges and Triumphs of Building Niobium-Tin Magnets

Quantum Sensing: Shedding New Light on Dark Matter

Supercomputing 2023: Taking Exascale Modeling to the Next Level

A Novel Technique for Producing Positron Beams Using Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell Featured in Physics World

Jens Osterhoff Joins BELLA Center, Strengthening Berkeley Lab Leadership in Plasma Accelerators

3Q4: Kyle Jensen

Persaud Receives Inventors/Developers of the Year Award

Berkeley Lab Scientists to Collaborate on Four DOE Small Business Awards

Berkeley Lab and ATAP Division Host James Logan High School

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Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Celebrating Black History Month

Welcoming the Lunar New Year

Wellness and Learning Resources at the Lab

Welcoming New Hires and Interns

National Mentoring Month

Multi-Lab Safety Week: June 11-13, 2024

Ensuring Electrical Safety with Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory-Listed Equipment

Publications & Presentations

 

Accelerator Modeling Program

Publications

J.-L. Vay. “Beam-beam simulations. “C3 Cool Copper Collider Workshop, SLAC, Feb. 12-13, 2024.

A. Formenti. “Simulations of Linear Lepton Colliders @ IP with WarpX,” ATAP All-to-All meeting, Jan. 30, 2024.

R. Lehe, A. Formenti, and J.-L. Vay. “WarpX simulations for beam-beam interaction and BDS,” HALHF Monthly Accelerator Meeting, virtual, Jan. 29, 2024.

A. Formenti. “First results of beam-beam simulations with WarpX,” Beam-Beam collaboration meeting, SLAC, Jan. 19, 2024.

R. Lehe and J.-L. Vay. “Plans for WarpX,” Beam-Beam collaboration meeting, SLAC, Jan. 19, 2024.

J.-L. Vay. “Fusion Energy Science & Technologies at Berkeley Lab for future pilot plant,” Fusion Power Associates 44th annual meeting and symposium, Washington, DC, Dec 19-20, 2023.

BELLA Center

Publications

A. G. R. Thomas, S. S. Bulanov. “Preface to Special Topic: Relativistic plasma in supercritical fields,” Phys. Plasmas 31, 010402 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0192073, and special topic https://pubs.aip.org/pop/collection/1585/Relativistic-Plasma-in-Supercritical

S. S. Bulanov, C. A. Aidala, C. Benedetti, R. Bernstein, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, S. J. Gessner, A. J. Gonsalves, M. J. Hogan, P. M. Jacobs, C. Jing, S. Knapen, C. Lee, I. Low, X. Lu, P. Meade, P. Muggli, P. Musumeci, B. Nachman, K. Nakamura, T. Nelson, S. Pagan Griso, M. Palmer, E. Prebys, C. B. Schroeder, V. Shiltsev, D. Terzani, A. G. R. Thomas J. van Tilborg, M. Turner, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, L. Visinelli, W.-M. Yao, and R. Yoshida. “Advanced accelerator linear collider demonstration facility at intermediate energy,” JINST 19, T01010 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/T0101

S. V. Bulanov, G. M. Grittani, R. Shaisultanov, C. P. Ridgers, S. S. Bulanov, B. K. Russell, and A. G. R. Thomas. “On the energy spectrum evolution of electrons undergoing the radiation cooling,” Fundamental Plasma Physics 9, 100036 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fpp.2024.100036

S.S. Bulanov, C.A. Aidala, C. Benedetti, R. Bernstein, E. Esarey, C.G.R. Geddes, S.J. Gessner, A.J. Gonsalves, M.J. Hogan, P.M. Jacobs, C. Jing, S. Knapen, C. Lee, I. Low, X. Lu, P. Meade, P. Muggli, P. Musumeci, B. Nachman, K. Nakamura, T. Nelson, S. Pagan Griso, M. Palmer, E. Prebys, C.B. Schroeder, V. Shiltsev, D. Terzani, A.G.R. Thomas, J. van Tilborg, M. Turner, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, L. Visinelli, W.-M. Yao, R. Yoshida, “The science case for an intermediate energy advanced and novel accelerator linear collider facility,” J. Instrum19, T01010 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/T01010

“The science case for an intermediate energy advanced and novel accelerator linear collider facility,” J. Instrum19, T01010 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/T01010

Terzani, C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov, C. B. Schroeder, and E. Esarey. “Compact, all-optical positron production and collection scheme,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 26, 113401 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.113401

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

S. Chen, T. Zhou, Q. Du, D. Wang, A. Gilardi, J.-L. Vay, D. Li, J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, R. Wilcox, and C. G. R. Geddes. “Broad-band spectral combining of three pulse-shaped fiber amplifiers with 42 fs compressed pulse duration,” Optics Express 31, 12717 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.486884

Gonoskov, T. Blackburn, M. Marklund, and S. S. Bulanov. “Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 94, 045001(2022).
https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.94.045001

Turner, S. S. Bulanov, C. Benedetti, A. J. Gonsalves, W. P. Leemans, K. Nakamura, J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder, C. G. R. Geddes, and E. Esarey, “Strong-Field QED Experiments using the BELLA PW Laser Dual Beamlines”, Eur. Phys. J. D 76, 205 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00535-y

S. Hakimi, L. Obst-Huebl, A. Huebl, K. Nakamura, S. S. Bulanov, S. Steinke, W. Leemans, Z. Kober, T. M. Ostermayr, T. Schenkel, A. J. Gonsalves, J.-L. Vay, J. van Tilborg, C. Toth, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and C. G. R. Geddes. “Laser-solid interaction studies enabled by the new capabilities of the iP2 BELLA PW beamline,” Phys. Plasmas 29, 083102 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089331

S. Diederichs, C. Benedetti, M. Thevenet, E. Esarey, J. Osterhoff, and C. B. Schroeder. “Self- stabilizing positron acceleration in a plasma column,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 25, 091304 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.25.091304

C. B. Schroeder, C. Benedetti, S. S. Bulanov, D. Terzani, E. Esarey, and C. G. R. Geddes, “Beam dynamics challenges in linear colliders based on laser-plasma accelerators,” J. Instrum. 17, P05011 (2022).
https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/P05011

S. Diederichs, C. Benedetti, A. Huebl, R. Lehe, A. Myers, A.Sinn, J.-L.Vay, W. Zhang, and M. Thévenet. “HiPACE++: A portable, 3D quasi-static particle-in-cell code,” Comp. Phys. Comm. 278, 108421 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108421

J. Bin, L. Obst-Huebl, J.-H. Mao, K. Nakamura, L. D. Geulig, H. Chang, Q. Ji, L. He, J. De Chant, Z. Kober, A. J. Gonsalves, S. S. Bulanov, S. E. Celniker, C. B. Schroeder, C. G. R. Geddes, E. Esarey, B. A. Simmons, T. Schenkel, E. A. Blakely, S. Steinke, and A. M. Snijders. “A new platform for ultra-high dose rate radiobiological research using the BELLA PW laser proton beamline,” Sci. Rep. 12, 1484 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05181-3

 

Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology Program

Publications

Qarony, W., Redjem, W., Zhiyenbayev, Y., Ivanov, V., Papapanos, C., Liu, W., Jhuria, K., Al Balushi, Z. Y., Dhuey, S., Schwartzberg, A., Tan, L. Z., Schenkel, T. and Kanté, B. “All-silicon quantum light source by embedding a single color center in a nanophotonic cavity,” 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360655