A team led by researchers at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has used a plasma-based device that’s just a few inches longer than a paper-towel tube to punch particles up to ...

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.

In this study, the authors demonstrate that a wide-angle plasma plume can undergo collimation and acceleration when subjected to toroidal magnetic fields, as evidenced by all-optical laboratory ...

Laser-plasma accelerators can accelerate particles over distances that are up to 1,000 times shorter than those required by conventional accelerators. The technology promises compact systems that ...

The setup is known as a laser-plasma accelerator, an emerging class of particle accelerators that physicists believe can shrink traditional, miles-long accelerators to machines that can fit on a ...

The laser plasma accelerator has accelerated about half a billion electrons to 2 gigaelectronvolts over a distance of about 1 inch. It's a downsizing of a factor of approximately 10,000 ...

(Courtesy: Thomas Heinemann/Strathclyde and Alberto Martinez de la Ossa/DESY) Laser wakefield acceleration and plasma wakefield acceleration have the potential to boost the energy of particle ...

Computing is now playing an equal role in this triad. Electrostatic potential of a toroidal plasma calculated by the GEM gyrokinetic turbulence code. The CU plasma simulation group uses large-scale ...

Particle accelerator technology has crested a new wave. For the first time, scientists have shown that electrons can gain energy by surfing waves kicked up by protons shot through plasma.

SMART has been constructed by the University of Seville’s Plasma Science and Fusion Technology Laboratory. With a vessel dimension of 1.6 × 1.6 m, SMART has a 30 cm diameter solenoid wrapped around 12 ...