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Compact, cheaper, laser-powered particle accelerators get real

In this plasma simulation, a pulse of laser light (red) tows a wake of electrons (blue), which other electrons (magenta) surf to enormous energies. Image Credit: Carlo Benedetti, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab announces FY2024 Inventors and Developers of the Year

Photo montage of Berkeley Lab's Inventors and Developers of the Year FY2024. Top row left to right: Joe Palasz, Damian Rouson, Sebastien Biraud, Gerd Ceder. Bottom row left to right: Mike Tucker, Gang Huang, Yilun Xu. Credit: Ruby Barcklay, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2024

Berkeley Lab News Center feature image montage. Credit: Jenny Nuss, Berkeley Lab

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)

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