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Building a Better Electron Gun

APEX Team at Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab-Built Electron Gun Fires Up for LCLS-II X-Ray Laser Project

LCLS-II First Beam

Laser ‘Drill’ Sets a New World Record in Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration

Image - A snapshot of a plasma channel’s electron density profile (blue) formed inside a sapphire tube (gray) with the combination of an electrical discharge and an 8-nanosecond laser pulse (red, orange, yellow). This plasma channel was used to guide femtoseconds-long “driver” laser pulses from the BELLA petawatt laser system, which generated plasma waves and accelerated electrons to 8 billion electron volts in just 20 centimeters. (Credit: Gennadiy Bagdasarov/Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics; Anthony Gonsalves and Jean-Luc Vay/Berkeley Lab)

Preparing for a New Tool to Study the ‘Glue That Binds Us All’

Image - At left is a 1980s conception of the structure of the proton, which is a positively charged particle found in atomic nuclei. At right is our current understanding of the various subatomic particles – including quarks, antiquarks, and gluons – that make up the proton and contribute to a fundamental property known as spin. (Credit: Z.-E. Meziani)

Berkeley Lab Joins Other Labs and Universities in LaserNetUS, A New Nationwide High-Intensity Laser Network

Image - BELLA, the Berkeley Laboratory Laser Accelerator. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

Toward a New Light: Advanced Light Source Upgrade Project Moves Forward

Image - A cutaway view of the Advanced Light Source, showing new equipment that will be installed during the ALS Upgrade project. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab to Build an Advanced Quantum Computing Testbed

Photo - Irfan Siddiqi (left), director of the Lab’s AQT effort, and Jonathan Carter, AQT co-principal investigator, in front of a dilution refrigerator housing superconducting qubits. Siddiqi is a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Material Sciences Division and Carter is the deputy of science for Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area. (Credit: Peter DaSilva, Berkeley Lab)

Berkeley Lab to Push Quantum Information Frontiers With New Programs in Computing, Physics, Materials, and Chemistry

Photo - A nanofabrication clean room at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

CERN Ceremony Marks Groundbreaking for Accelerator Upgrade Involving U.S. National Labs

Photo - A collaboration among several U.S. national laboratories has been working on superconducting magnets that will be integral to a planned high-luminosity upgrade for CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Profiling Extreme Beams: Scientists Devise New Diagnostic for Cutting-Edge and Next-Gen Particle Accelerators

Image - This image from a simulation shows an electron beam (blue circles) passing through a mixture of hydrogen and xenon gases that it ionizes, transforming the mixture into a plasma of protons, xenon ions, and electrons. (Credit: Jean-Luc Vay and Rémi Lehe)

Study Recommends Strong Role for National Labs in ‘Second Laser Revolution’

Image - A view of BELLA, the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab)

It All Starts With a ‘Spark’: Berkeley Lab Delivers Injector That Will Drive X-Ray Laser Upgrade

Photo - Berkeley Lab Mechanical Engineers Joe Wallig, left, and Brian Reynolds work on the final assembly of the LCLS-II injector gun in a specially designed clean room at Berkeley Lab in August. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)