May 22, 2023 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ In this recent interview, ATAP Division Director Cameron Geddes and Reed Teyber, a research scientist in ATAP’s Superconducting Magnet Program, explain how Berkeley Lab researchers are trying to make fusion energy a reality. Fusion energy is one of the biggest challenges of our time.Read More
Beam Stabilization Key to Unlocking Potential of Next-Generation Accelerators
April 27, 2023 / Carl A. Williams / Berkeley Lab ATAP Division ~ Researchers from ATAP have developed a technique for stabilizing the lasers that drive plasma-based particle accelerators. The work could pave the way for the use of this technology—which offers much smaller machines—as an enabling technology for next-generation colliders and light sources, opening theRead More
A New Design for Superconducting Magnets
April 24, 2023 / Carl A. Williams / Berkeley Lab ATAP Division ~ Researchers from the Superconducting Magnet Program at ATAP have shown how an innovative magnet design could extend the limits of current superconducting magnets, promising better-performing and more powerful devices that are cheaper to build. The work could pave the way for new superconductingRead More
Lasers, Ions, and Silicon: Expanding the Toolkit and Building Blocks for Quantum Information Science
April 19, 2023 / Carl A. Williams / Berkeley Lab ATAP Division ~ An international team of scientists led by ATAP researchers has used intense ion pules to form tiny artificial defects in silicon crystals that could allow information to be encoded in quantum bits. The work could lay the foundations for new devices for applications inRead More
DOE/NSF P5 “Cosmic Frontier” Town Hall hosted at Berkeley Lab on February 22-24
March 3, 2023 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division hosted the first P5 (Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel) Town Hall on February 22-24 to launch the pivotal information-gathering phase, during which the Panel learned about the aspirations of the U.S. particle physics community. Building on the 2021 Snowmass Community Planning Exercise, P5Read More