Accelerator Advances

• Dielectric laser accelerator creates focused electron beam - April, 2024
• Plasma accelerators target polarised beams - March, 2024
• Nanoparticles give laser wakefield accelerator a boost to 10 GeV - December, 2023
• Electrons accelerated by firing lasers into nanophotonic cavities, Tiny accelerators get electrons up to speed using lasers - November, 2023
• Jet of frozen hydrogen provides a renewable target for laser-accelerated protons - August, 2023
• Europe targets a user facility for plasma acceleration - April, 2023
• Curved-Laser Demonstration for a Higher-Energy Laser Accelerator - May, 2023 A multi-turn energy recovery accelerator that achieves high beam power with lower power consumption - February, 2023
• Physicists caught protons 'surfing' on shock waves - August, 2021
• The paradox of a free-electron laser without the laser - July, 2021
• New electron accelerator combines laser and plasma wakefield techniques - June, 2021
• How to cool ion beams using electron pulses - January, 2021
• Designing a Green Accelerator - December, 2020
• TESLA's high-gradient march - November, 2020
• A Lone Attosecond Electron Pulse - November, 2020
• World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock - August, 2020
• A new generation of synchrotron - August, 2020
• Electron Accelerator Recycles Energy for a Brighter Beam - July, 2020 Electron accelerator recycles energy - June, 2020
• 'Whispering gallery' effect controls electron beams with light - May, 2020
• Extremely brilliant giga-electron-volt gamma rays from a two-stage laser-plasma accelerator - May, 2020
• Diamond micro-lenses stand up to synchrotron sources - May, 2020
• Lining Up for Wakefield Acceleration - March, 2020
• Better Electron Bunches for X-Ray Lasers - March, 2020
• Europe draws up plans for plasma-based particle accelerators - January, 2020
• Accelerator-on-a-chip created by inverse-design algorithm - January, 2020
• AWAKE: More plasma = more acceleration - November, 2019
• Machine learning stabilizes synchrotron beams - November, 2019
• Optical imaging provides quality assurance for small radiotherapy beams - October, 2019
• Niobium-tin cavities for smaller accelerators - July, 2019
• Laser trick produces high-energy terahertz pulses - June, 2019
• Researchers uncover a new obstacle to effective accelerator beams - June, 2019
• Optical imaging characterizes radioactive ion beams - June, 2019
• Nanopatterned electron beams for temporal coherence and deterministic phase control of x-ray free-electron lasers - June, 2019
• Ultrafast Oscilloscope for Ultrashort Electron Beam - April, 2019
• Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Research 2019 - 2040: A community-driven UK roadmap compiled by the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Steering Committee (PWASC) - April, 2019
• Effects of hole-boring and relativistic transparency on particle acceleration in overdense plasma irradiated by short multi-PW laser pulses - April, 2019
• A Lens for Millimeter-Sized Electron Accelerators - March, 2019
• Shooting Ahead with Wakefield Acceleration - February, 2019
• Meet the Extremely Brilliant Source - November, 2018
• AWAKE accelerates electrons in world first,
  
• Physicists achieve powerful acceleration by 'surfing' electrons on proton waves over short distances - September, 2018
• High-gradient X-band technology: from TeV colliders to light sources and more - March, 2018
• A Room-Sized Linear Accelerator for Proton Therapy - April, 2017
• The Incredible Shrinking Particle Accelerator - October, 2016
• Researchers generate proton beams using a combination of nanoparticles and laser light - September, 2016
• Chirped laser pulses could deliver high-quality proton beams - September, 2016
• Building compact particle accelerators: Bunching electrons can get more done - May, 2016
• Consortium sets out to build European laser plasma accelerator - May, 2016
• Plans for a laser-driven gamma-ray beam are unveiled by physicists - May, 2016
• Researchers propose new way to improve beam quality in laser wakefield accelerators - March, 2016
• Science with a medical PET cyclotron - March, 2016
• Coupling 2 'Tabletop' Laser-Plasma Accelerators, a Decisive First Step Toward Tomorrow's Ultrapowerful Compact Machines - February, 2016
• Shrinking the accelerator - November, 2015
• New discovery could enable portable particle accelerators - November, 2015
• CERN prepares to test revolutionary mini-accelerator - October, 2015
• Team shrinks particle accelerator: Prototype demonstrates feasibility of building terahertz accelerators - October, 2015
• Smaller and cheaper particle accelerators? - April, 2015
• Two teams take big steps forward in plasma acceleration - January, 2015
• A new awakening? - January, 2015
• Plasma wakefield acceleration shows promise - January, 2015
• Power to the Electrons - December, 2014
• World record for compact 'tabletop' particle accelerator - December, 2014
• Precision plasma wakefield acceleration - November, 2014
• A path toward more powerful tabletop accelerators - May, 2014
• Combining lasers could shrink particle accelerators from kilometers to meters - May, 2014
• Particle acceleration on a chip - December, 2013
• Can fibre be the future of high-energy physics? - October, 2013
• Small really is beautiful - October, 2013
• Charged particles can be accelerated using light, leading the way for more compact particle accelerators, - October, 2013
• Demonstration of electron acceleration in a laser-driven dielectric microstructure,
• Researchers Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip',
• Accelerating Electrons with Light, Dielectric Laser Acceleration,
• Etched glass could create table-top particle accelerators - September, 2013
• Particle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science research - June, 2013
• Tabletop Particle Accelerator - June, 2013
• Superconductivity leads the way to high luminosity - January, 2013
• Toward a compact microbeam radiotherapy system - July, 2012
• Beams to order from table-top accelerators - August, 2011
• Also Physicists create tabletop antimatter 'gun' (June, 2013) and
• Laser creates high-energy positron beam (June, 2013).