[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Thu 2008-11-06 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Chan Joshi (University of California, Los Angeles)

Title:     Surfing Plasma Waves: A New Paradigm for Particle Accelerators

Abstract: Experiments at accelerators have produced many key breakthroughs in particle physics during the past 50 years. Today, as exploration begins of physics at the “terascale”, the machines needed are extremely large, costly and time-consuming to build. As early as in 1982 the US Department of Energy (DOE) began a program to develop new ideas for particle acceleration , which has since become extremely active. From the outset it was clear that developing an entirely new concept for acceleration of charged particles would be a multi-disciplinary endeavor, requiring a sustained research effort of several decades to come to fruition (HEPAP 1980). Here I would like to examine just how far one advanced concept - plasma-based particle accelerators - has come after 20 or so years of research, and to prognosticate how it is likely to develop in the next decade.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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