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Milestone 10-GeV Experiment Shines Light on Laser-Plasma Interactions

A plasma channel forms in a sheet of supersonic gas. (Credit: Alexander Picksley and Anthony Gonsalves/Berkeley Lab)

Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration from Foam Targets: Aligning Simulations with Experimental Results

BELLA Center Staff Scientist Stepan Bulanov. Matthew Fullmer/Berkeley Lab

Improved Stability In Relativistic Plasma Simulations Using Novel Particle-In-Cell Formulation

Olga Shapoval, research scientist in the ATAP's Advanced Modeling Program at Berkeley Lab. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

ATAP Hosts High School STEM Day

ATAP Deputy Division Director, Operations, Asmita Patel (far left), joins students participating in High Schools STEM Day. Photo: Berkeley Lab

New Magnets for LHC Upgrade Successfully Pass Halfway Mark

The Berkeley Lab niobium-tin magnet assembly team for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project. (l-r) Daniel Cheng, Juan Rodriguez, Paolo Ferracin, Jennifer Doyle, Simone Johnson, Laura Garcia Fajardo, Jonathan Hekmat, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Solis, Joshua Herrera, and Bob Memmo. Photo Credit: Andy Lin, Berkeley Lab

World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Gets Major Energy Boost

Berkeley Lab Engineering Division team member contributing to the LCLS-II high-energy upgrade. (l-r) Diego Arbelaez, Michael Hallock, Philip Mallon, Kyle McCombs, Maya Kota, and Kelly Hanzel. Daniel Bruch/SLAC

'Up-dimensioning' Improves Synthetic Grain Microstructure Evaluation

Ian Pong (left), a staff scientist in ATAP's Superconducting Magnet Program, and Kevin Gillespie, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, discuss the "up-dimensioning" method. Photo Credit: Berkeley Lab

High-Efficiency Beam Shaping Enhances Laser Precision

BELLA Center Postdoctoral Scholar Deepak Sapkota (left) and Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg observe non-linear blue light generated using the beam-shaped flat-top beam for uniform broadening. Photo Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab

Stepan Bulanov elected 2024 APS Fellow

Stepan Bulanov (Karen Russell, Berkeley Lab)

2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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Machine Learning Accelerates Progress Toward Scalable Quantum Computers

Yilun Xu, Neel Rajeshabhai Vora, and Gang Huang from ATAP’s Berkeley Accelerator Controls & Instrumentation (BACI) Program work on the QubiC, an open-source FPGA-based control system developed by Berkeley Lab. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

2024 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM

2024 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM finalists: (top row, left to right) Gurjyot Sethi, Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta, Ivo Marković, Lisa Schlueter, Yumary Vasquez, and Laleh Coté; (bottom row, left to right) Saurabh Sawant, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Bri Finley, Dennis Noll, Nicholas Dale, and Anne Fortman. Image Credit: Berkeley Lab Elements

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