Seminars

PIER Photon Science Colloquium: Perspectives of Plasma-Wakefield-Accelerators: From Medical Imaging, over FELs to Linear Colliders

by Florian Grüner (University of Hamburg (UHH) and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL))

Europe/Berlin
CFEL Lecture Hall, Bldg. 99 (DESY Hamburg)

CFEL Lecture Hall, Bldg. 99

DESY Hamburg

Description
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWA) attracts great interest from accelerator and applied physics due to their unprecedented ultra-high field gradients on the order of TV/m as well as their intrinsically ultra-short electron bunch lengths of just few femtoseconds. Though still at its beginning, first experimental breakthroughs over the last years added to the emergence of this new field of accelerator physics. This overview talk aims at the very basics of PWA and its possible applications, with a focus on the activities within the LAOLA collaboration between Hamburg University and DESY.