Berkeley Lab

Funding Acknowledgment

The BELLA Center and many of its endeavors are supported principally by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. Additional project- or program-specific funding comes from

  • The DOE National Nuclear Security Administration, for the development of a quasi-monochromatic gamma-ray source.
  • The LBNL Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program, for R&D toward fiber-optic-based laser-plasma accelerators and toward a novel concept for high-average-power ultrafast lasers.
  • The LBNL Strategic Planning Support Activities program, for pre-conceptual-design R&D on an LPA-based ion accelerator facility.
  • The DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, for an Early Career Research Progam grant for development of free-electron lasers based on laser-plasma accelerators.
  • The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, for development of free-electron lasers based on laser-plasma accelerators.

We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation for student and postdoc activities at the UC-Berkeley campus that complement and are coordinated with BELLA Center research.