DESY's Laser Plasma Acceleration Breakthrough: A Game Changer for Electron Accelerators
Scientists at DESY have made a significant breakthrough in laser plasma acceleration. They've developed a new technique that could revolutionize electron acceleration, making it more compact and energy-efficient.
The DESY team, led by the LUX experiment, has improved the electron bunches generated by a laser plasma accelerator. They reduced the energy distribution by a factor of 18 and the energy spread by a factor of 72, making the bunches comparable to those produced by conventional accelerators.
The team achieved this remarkable feat using a sophisticated two-stage correction setup. This concept, envisaged for applications in X-ray sources like PETRA III or PETRA IV, could now be used to generate and accelerate electron packets for injection into these sources, providing a more compact and energy-efficient alternative to traditional accelerators.
The research group combined plasma acceleration with modern accelerator technology. Their success is a testament to the power of collaboration between theory and experiment.
The DESY team's breakthrough in laser plasma acceleration could pave the way for more compact and energy-efficient electron accelerators, potentially opening up new fields of application for X-ray sources like PETRA III and PETRA IV.
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