We will discuss the progress on building laser powered, plasma based particle accelerators where electrons surf on waves and can reach energy levels in a few inches that, if one relies on conventional methods, would require machines multiple football fields long. Although many challenges remain, this new technology is at the brink of offering a profoundly different way in which we may build particle accelerators such as used in future colliders or in medical cancer therapy devices.
Title
Solving big problems with small accelerators, from colliders to medical devices based on laser plasma accelerators
Published
Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Physics, January 30, 2017
Full Collection Name
Physics Colloquia
Type
Video
Extent
1 streaming video file
Other Physical Details
digital, sd., col.
Archive
Physics Library
Note
Recorded at a colloquium held on January 30, 2017, sponsored by the Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley.
originally produced as an .mts file in 2017
Speakers: Wim Leemans.
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