How it works: electrons accelerated by a laser pulse (left) are used to drive the second-stage particle accelerator (right). (Courtesy: Thomas Heinemann/Strathclyde and Alberto Martinez de la ...

New research by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in ...

Laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) propel particles to high energies over short distances using intense, ultrashort pulses of laser light. These accelerators can supply high-quality particle beams for ...

“Development of LPA-based free-electron lasers is an important stepping stone to other applications of this technology, such ...

Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health ...

The free electron laser (FEL) is an interesting application for state-of-the-art laser-plasma accelerators. Here, electron bunches fly through a so-called undulator at nearly the speed of light.

Laser-plasma accelerators (LPAs) got the nickname "tabletop" because, as shown by the unique BELLA accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...

Laser plasma accelerators work by using very powerful electric fields formed inside plasma waves to accelerate charged particles to high energies in a very short distance.

Scientists have set a new world record for plasma accelerators: In a plasma tube only 20 centimeters long, the team has accelerated electrons to an energy of 7.8 billion electron volts (GeV).

For the first time, a laser plasma accelerator has run for more than a day while continuously producing electron beams. The LUX beamline achieved a run time of 30 hours.

Earlier this month, CERN's Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE)—which uses a high-energy proton bunch as the driver to create the wake, rather than a laser ...