Here laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) are a promising alternative, which uses lasers to create accelerated particles along the wake in a plasma field. One of the major struggles has been with ...

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is a technology developed by T. Tajima and J. Dawson that uses high-intensity laser pulses to drive plasma waves with acceleration gradients orders of magnitude ...

One significant advancement in laser plasma acceleration is the demonstration of free-electron lasing using compact plasma wakefield accelerators. Researchers have successfully accelerated ...

We carry out experiments in our high-power laser lab on CU campus and at the FACET-II facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. A plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) can be thought of as an ...

1). The two approaches — laser wakefield and ion beam accelerators — promise reductions of many orders of magnitude in size, cost and complexity, compared with conventional accelerators.

Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma ...

Our goal is to study particle beam acceleration in strong plasma waves that are generated by the passage of a dense particle beam or an intense laser pulse in a scheme known as plasma wakefield ...