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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

Building the Quantum Future, Qubit by Qubit

Gang Huang and Yilun Xu from Berkeley Lab's ATAP division led the development of QubiC, an open-source classical control system for quantum processors. (Credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab)

Safeguarding High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets Against Quenching

(left) ATPA's Superconducting Magnet Program (SMP) Head, Soren Prestemon, and SMP Staff Scientist, Maxim Marchevsky, discuss an experimental setup to test the sensitivity of a temperature monitoring system for a high-temperature superconducting magnet. Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

Boosting Intense Ion Beam Energies with Hollow-Channel Laser-Plasma Stages

Illustration of the electron density of the plasma booster stage (left) and energy-boosted proton beam (right) from ATAP's 3D particle-in-cell simulations. Photo credit: Axel Huebl & Marco Garten

Niobium-Tin Magnet Key to Unlocking Potential of Heavy-Ion Accelerator

Researchers from ATAP's Superconducting Magnet Program who were involved in developing the new magnet. (from left): Paolo Ferracin, Simone Margot Johnson, Aurelio Hafalia Jr., Matthew Reynolds, Lianrong Xu (background), Ye Yang, Tengming Shen, and Soren Prestemon. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

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