Advanced Accelerator Research at SLAC

An overview of the advanced accelerator research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC): Experiments are being conducted with the goal of exploring high gradient acceleration mechanisms. One line of research is devoted to plasma wake-field acceleration where a plasma wave is excited by a beam. Accelerating gradients of over 30 GeV/m have been generated, and particles have gained more than 10 GeV of energy. The other line of research is devoted to laser-driven dielectric accelerators. These linacs, shrunk down to the micron scale, are concepts based on laser and photonic developments. The concepts and experimental results are described

Professor Robert H. Siemann, Ph.D.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Professor of Applied Physics
IEEE Senior Member
AAAS Fellow
APS Fellow
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