Measuring table-top accelerators' state-of-the-art beams: Slicing through the electron beam
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 16:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Accurate tests of the beam quality of laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) assume new importance with the approaching advent of the one-meter-long, 10-billion-electron-volt, bringing the promise of "table-top accelerators" closer to realization. Accelerator scientists have now devised novel techniques for characterizing extraordinarily short beam pulses in the complex environment of LPAs, including the metric known as slice-energy spread.