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8 Berkeley Lab Scientists Named 2020 AAAS Fellows
Berkeley Lab’s eight 2020 AAAS Fellows (clockwise, from upper left to lower left): Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, Peidong Yang, Robert Oliver Ritchie, Len...
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A New Way to Measure Record-Setting Electron Beams
Sam Barber, left, a research scientist at Berkeley Lab’s BELLA Center, and Jeroen van Tilborg, a staff scientist at the BELLA Center, hold the active plasma lens, right, and dipole magnets used in an...
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Applying Quantum Computing to a Particle Process
An ATLAS particle collision event display from 2018 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider displays a spray of particles (orange lines) emanating from the collision of protons, and the detector readout...
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Advisory Committee Releases Strategic Plan for U.S. Fusion, Plasma Program
This BELLA HTT laser system enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy...
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National Labs Band Together to Build Prototype Magnet for Future and Existing...
This half-meter-long prototype of a niobium-tin superconducting undulator magnet was designed and built by a team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Fermi national...
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A COSMIC Approach to Nanoscale Science
A conceptual drawing of the COSMIC microscope, with X-rays shown in purple. All equipment is mounted to a central cylinder. The zone plate, a type of X-ray optic, is scanned relative to this cylinder...
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Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change ‘Turbulence’ in RHIC Collisions
Mapping nuclear phase changes is like studying how water changes under different conditions of temperature and pressure. Collisions at Brookhaven Lab’s RHIC’s collisions “melt” protons and neutrons to...
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U.S. Magnet Development Project for CERN Particle Collider Upgrade Moves Forward
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Accelerator Upgrade Project magnets use conductors made of niobium-tin to generate a stronger magnetic field compared to predecessor technology. These...
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Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Achieves Major Milestone
VIDEO: The new swap-out injection system will be implemented as part of the $590 million Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U) project. This unique feature, developed by Berkeley Lab scientists, is a...
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Fiber Lasers Poised to Advance Berkeley Lab’s Development of Practical...
Berkeley Lab scientist Tong Zhou conducting fiber laser combination experiments. An ongoing multi-institutional project to coherently combine the output of fast-pulsing but low-energy fiber lasers...
View ArticleLaserNetUS High-Power Laser Consortium, Including Berkeley Lab, Receives $18M...
New U.S. Department of Energy funding totaling $18 million, including $1 million for user support, will be distributed among 10 partner institutions – including Berkeley Lab – and will continue and...
View ArticleGRETA, a 3D Gamma-Ray Detector, Gets Green Light to Move Forward
The effort to construct GRETA, a cutting-edge spherical array of high-purity germanium crystals that will measure gamma-ray signals to reveal new details about the structure and inner workings of...
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