Director's Corner
Superconducting Magnets: Enhancing The Capabilities of Particle Accelerators
Using Flat Beams In Plasma Accelerators For Future Particle Colliders
Enhancing Nuclear Isomer Populations Using Ultrafast Electron Beams
Supporting National Efforts To Advance Quantum Technologies
Compact, Cheaper, Laser-Powered Particle Accelerators Get Real
The Particle Physics Prioritization Panel (P5) Report And Accelerator Development
Vay Awarded DOE Secretary Of Energy Achievement Award
Huang, Xu Named Inventors/Developers Of the Year
Huebl Receives NERSC High-Performance Computing Achievement Award
Berkeley Lab Researchers Teach At U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Social Media Highlights
Respect And Civility In The Workplace
3Q4: Tengming Shen
3Q4: Karen Russell
Celebrating Service Milestones
Welcoming New Hires And Affiliates
Team Effort Highlights Commitment To Safety and Learning
Publications & Presentations
Advanced Modeling Program
Publications
R. Jambunathan et al., incl. J.-L.Vay. “Application of mesh refinement to relativistic magnetic reconnection,” Phys. Plasmas 32, 013905 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0233583
D. Wang et al. incl., A. Huebl. “A High-Quality Workflow for Multi-Resolution Scientific Data Reduction and Visualization,” SC24: International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41406.2024.00091
S. Hakimi, S.S. Bulanov, A. Huebl, et al. “Dephasing of ion beams as Magnetic Vortex Acceleration regime transitions into a bubble-like field structure,” Phys. Plasmas 31, 123108 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0238727
J.J. Williams et al., incl. A Huebl. “Enabling High-Throughput Parallel I/O in Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations with openPMD and Darshan I/O Monitoring,” 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing Workshops, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLUSTERWorkshops61563.2024.00022
A. Myers et al., incl. A. Huebl. “AMReX and pyAMReX: Looking beyond the exascale computing project,” The International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications 38, 599 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/10943420241271017
R. Roussel et al., incl. R. Lehe and A. Huebl. “Advancements in backwards differentiable beam dynamics simulations for accelerator design, model calibration, and machine learning,” Proceedings of LinAC24, 2024. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2024-THPB068
Presentations
J. Qiang. “Coherent beam-beam instabilities in the EIC,” Collider-Accelerator Department Seminar, November 22, 2024.Brookhaven National Laboratory,
J.-L. Vay. “Fusion Energy R&D @ Berkeley Lab,” 45th annual Fusion Power Associates meeting, December 2-3, 2024, Washington, DC, USA.
BACI Program
Presentations
Luo, Tianhuan. “Muon Cooling Cavities for a Muon Collider,” Cold Copper Accelerator Technologies and Applications Workshop, January 13 – 14, 2025, Duke University, NC, USA.
BELLA Center
Publications
Brandon K. Russell, Stepan S. Bulanov, Qian Qian, Sergey V. Bulanov, Gabriele Grittani, Daniel Seipt, Christopher Arran, Christopher P. Ridgers, Thomas Blackburn, Stuart P. D. Mangles, and Alexander G. R. Thomas. “Signatures of Nonlinear Compton Scattering in Scattered Angular Spectra,” Phys. Rev. A 110, 062822 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1364/NLO.2023.W1B.4
Sahel Hakimi, Axel Huebl, Stepan S. Bulanov, Lieselotte Obst-Huebl, Kei Nakamura, Anthony Gonsalves, Thomas Schenkel, Jeroen van Tilborg, Jean-Luc Vay, Carl B. Schroeder, Eric Esarey, and Cameron R. Geddes. “Dephasing of ion beams as Magnetic Vortex Acceleration regime transitions into a bubble-like field structure,” Phys. Plasmas 31, 123108 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0238727
Robert E. Jacob, Speero M. Tannous, Lee A. Bernstein, Joshua Brown, Tobias Ostermayr, Dieter H. G. Schneider, Carl B. Schroeder, Jeroen van Tilborg, Eric H. Esarey, and Cameron G. R. Geddes. “Isomer population control via direct irradiation of solid-density targets using compact laser-plasma accelerator,” Phys. Rev. Lett. (accepted 2025).
S. Diederichs, C. Benedetti, A. Ferran Pousa, A. Sinn, J. Osterhoff, C. B. Schroeder, and M. Thevenet. “Resonant emittance mixing of flat beams in plasma accelerators,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 265003 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.265003
A. Picksley, J. Stackhouse, C. Benedetti, K. Nakamura, H. E. Tsai, R. Li, E. Rockafellow, H. M. Milchberg, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, and A. J. Gonsalves. “Matched guiding and controlled injection in dark-current-free, 10-GeV-class, channel-guided laser-plasma accelerators,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 (2024). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.00740
Presentations
S. S. Bulanov. “Laser Ion Acceleration at PW-class laser facilities and beyond,” invited talk at the 55th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, January 6-10, 2025, Snowbird, UT, USA.