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 ...

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

The term 'laser' stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." Lasers are made of a source of energy, ...

Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have "photographed" a rare plasma instability, where high-energy electron beams form into ...

Physicists at the University of Ottawa add an orbital spin to their laser beams to control the movement of electrons in their ...

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 ...

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 ...

NTA enables the measurement of particle size, concentration, and size distribution of nanoparticles in liquid suspensions. Schematic setup of the nanoparticle tracking analysis. The microscope/video ...