However, these “plasma wakefield accelerators” still need a traditional particle accelerator to generate the drive bunch. In 2010, Bernard Hidding – then at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and ...

Plasma accelerators recover in a FLASH Date: March 2, 2022 Source: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Summary: Scientists have demonstrated at the FLASHForward experiment that in principle it ...

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 ...

With the plasma wave demonstration, “we’re trying to develop a new kind of accelerator technology,” says physicist Allen Caldwell of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.

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 ...

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 completed toroidal field coil (Image: Toshiba ESS) The European fabrication of the toroidal field coils is the result of a collaboration between the Iter Organisation's European domestic agency ...

Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved a significant milestone in laser-plasma accelerator (LPA) technology. They have generated fast, bright proton beams by using the ...

An acronym of the Russian-language designation of “ toroidal chamber with magnetic coils,” a tokamak is a donut-shaped fusion reactor that relies on pulsed magnetic charges to ionize only a ...

In 2014, he and his team achieved then-record acceleration of 4.25 giga-electron volts (GeV). They used an electrical discharge to create a plasma out of gas contained within a short, thin tube.