December 1, 2022 / Lauren Biron / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division are featured in this new article about the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center (BELLA), where a recent new addition means researchers can explore extreme plasmas, radiation biology, materials for quantum computers, and beyond.Read More
2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize awarded to ATAP’s Jean-Luc Vay and collaborators for advancing particle accelerator design
November 30, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News A research team led by Jean-Luc Vay, a senior scientist and the head of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Modeling Program (AMP) in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division, and their international collaborators were honored with the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) 2022 Gordon Bell PrizeRead More
Upgraded Laser Facility Paves the Way for Next-Generation Particle Accelerators
September 7, 2022 / Alison Hatt / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Berkeley Lab researchers have completed a major expansion of one of the world’s most powerful laser systems, creating new opportunities in accelerator research for the future of high-energy physics and other fields. The expansion created a second beamline for the petawatt laser atRead More
Machine Learning Paves Way for Smarter Particle Accelerators
July 19, 2022 / Will Ferguson / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ Daniele Filippetto, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division and deputy director of the Berkeley Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation Program (BACI) program, is featured in this article about a new machine-learning platform that makes the algorithms that controlRead More