Albert was awarded «For pioneering development and characterization of X-ray sources from laser -
wakefield accelerators and Compton scattering gamma - ray sources for applications in high energy density science and nuclear resonance fluorescence.»
Now a team of researchers from China, South Korea and the U.S. has proposed a new way to minimize the energy spread of electrons in laser
wakefield accelerators.
However, there are downsides to laser
wakefield accelerators.
Pisin Chen of National Taiwan University and Gerard Mourou of the école Polytechnique in France realised that a next - generation particle accelerator called a plasma
wakefield accelerator could act like such a mirror.
Not exact matches
The acceleration is so strong that laser
wakefield devices can boost electrons to ultra-high-energy levels in mere centimeters, a feat that would take the most advanced conventional
accelerators many meters to accomplish.
In the world of particle
accelerators, laser
wakefield devices are the small, but mighty upstarts.