Laser plasma acceleration exploits the extreme electric fields generated in plasmas to produce high-energy electron beams over centimetre‐scale distances, in stark contrast to the kilometre‐scale ...

The Large Helical Device (LHD) and the heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) system. The inset on the left shows an enlarged view of the section from the negative ion source to the injection side of the tandem ...

Beam dynamics is a research area within accelerator physics that investigates the motion, stability, and phase-space evolution of charged particle beams under the influence of electromagnetic fields ...

The University of Chicago is part of a collaboration that has been awarded $23 million by the National Science Foundation to increase the intensity of beams of charged particles, while lowering the ...

Plasma acceleration and new acceleration techniques constitute a research area focused on generating high-gradient particle acceleration using collective electromagnetic fields in plasmas and other ...

Late on April 1, the crown jewel of the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era. Following an upgrade of the Continuous Electron Beam ...

A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes, with multiple research teams demonstrating that laser-driven devices ...