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

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

OSTI ID:987103

Leemans, Wim ^[1]

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1. LOASIS Program, AFRD; OSTI/ DOE

July 8, 2008 Berkeley Lab lecture: 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)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 987103
• 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
ACCELERATOR
ELECTRON BEAMS
LASER
LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION
LINEAR COLLIDER
PLASMA