Particle accelerators are used extensively ... The two approaches — laser wakefield and ion beam accelerators — promise reductions of many orders of magnitude in size, cost and complexity ...

DESY scientists have taken a major step in refining laser plasma acceleration, a technology that could revolutionize particle ...

Scientists from Germany's DESY have come up with a two-stage correction approach to speed up electrons just like they do with ...

Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and ...

Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...