New developments tackle two of the biggest challenges in plasma-wave acceleration: beam quality and bunch rate.

The LHC is 54 million times longer than the vaccum tube of the nanophotonic electron accelerator. (Image credit: Getty Images) In a new study, published Oct. 18 in the journal Nature, researchers ...

Traditionally, electron accelerators boost their projectiles by shooting them through metallic cavities, typically made from copper, that contain twitching electromagnetic fields.

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Conventional electron accelerators use radio waves which are directed into so-called resonator cavities. The radio waves transfer energy to the electrons as they fly past, increasing their velocity.

The new machine, known as a nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA), consists of a small microchip that houses an even smaller vacuum tube made up of thousands of individual "pillars." ...

First, they send the uneven electron bunches from the LUX (Laser and X-ray free electron laser) accelerator through a special arrangement of four magnets called a chicane.

A team of scientists across several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories has unraveled how light and a ...

Coherent nanophotonic electron accelerator. Nature. Published online October 18, 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06602-7.

Nov. 27, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a compact particle accelerator less than 20 meters long that produces an electron beam with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). There ...

This milestone, published in Nature, marks the first successful demonstration of a nanophotonic electron accelerator—a concept first proposed in 2015. "For the first time, ...