Speaker
Bernhard Hidding
(Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Description
Plasma accelerators offer orders of magnitude more rapid acceleration,
and in turn can be used to reduce the size of accelerators
significantly. The experimentally obtained electron beam quality closes
the gap to conventional linacs and has now reached levels where first
free-electron lasing becomes possible. However, advanced plasma
wakefield accelerators do also open up the possibility for generation of
electron beams orders of magnitude brighter than state-of-the-art.
Orders of magnitude brighter beams from orders of magnitude more compact
accelerators would have profound impact on applications such as
free-electron-lasers. Progress on conceptual approaches, simulation and
theory, and experimental realization, is presented.
Primary author
Bernhard Hidding
(Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
