Plasma-based Advanced Accelerator Research

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Plasma-based Advanced Accelerator Research

• Laser or e-beam drivers create a plasma wake

• Electric Field of Wake is 1-100 GeV/m 50-5000 x
  conventional metallic RF-driven accelerators

• Potential to miniaturize accelerators for
  nuclear and particle physics from kilometers to
  Tabletops.

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Plasma-based Accelerator Research Results

• Plasma accelerators are rapidly increasing in
  energy

• 3-D Modeling capability developed at UCLA/USC

PIs T. Katsouleas, P. Muggli -- USC C. Joshi,
W.B. Mori -- UCLA R. Siemann -- SLAC