The wide range of applications of these laser-driven particle beams has spurred the construction of petawatt facilities worldwide, including the OMEGA EP laser facility at the University of ...

The development of laser–plasma accelerators began in the ... within a target can be exploited to produce not just particle beams, but novel sources of X-ray radiation. Figure 1: Injection ...

Achieving practical interstellar travel requires overcoming the immense challenge of reaching extraordinary velocities. To ...

The plasma and beams group conducts research at the crossroads of plasma physics, particle beam physics, and laser physics. Our goal is to study particle beam acceleration in strong plasma waves that ...

There are many applications for particle accelerators ... by using curved channels for the laser beams (paywalled paper) which inject the laser beam into the continuous cavity.

With its classical parallel beam laser diffraction set-up, HELOS provides a powerful method means of analyzing the particle size distribution of powders, granules, suspensions, emulsions, sprays and ...

With its classical parallel beam laser diffraction set-up, HELOS provides a powerful method means of analyzing the particle size distribution of powders, granulates, solid and droplet aerosols as ...

When you think of a particle accelerator ... sizes up to 0.5 millimeters long. An electron beam moves through the channel. Very short infrared laser pulses on top of the channels accelerate ...

This development signifies substantial progress toward the creation of compact particle accelerators that can generate high-energy beams. This achievement builds upon the Berkeley Lab Laser ...