Accelerating Into the Future: From 0 to GeV in a Few Centimeters (LBNL Summer Lecture Series)

Conference · Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:1009078

Leemans, Wim ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) and Laser Optics and Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies (LOASIS)

Summer Lecture Series 2008: By exciting electric fields in plasma-based waveguides, lasers accelerate electrons in a fraction of the distance conventional accelerators require. The Accelerator and Fusion Research Division's LOASIS program, headed by Wim Leemans, has used 40-trillion-watt laser pulses to deliver billion-electron-volt (1 GeV) electron beams within centimeters. Leemans looks ahead to BELLA, 10-GeV accelerating modules that could power a future linear collider.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1009078
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACCELERATORS
AFRD
BELLA
BLOW-OUT REGIME
ELECTRIC FIELDS
ELECTRON BEAMS
ELECTRONS
LASER PLASMA WAKEFIELD ACCELERATOR
LASERS
LINEAR COLLIDERS
LOASIS
OPTICAL FIBER
WAVEGUIDES