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DTSTART:20120210T213000Z
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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
SUMMARY:Reinventing the Accelerator\, Physics Department Colloquium\, 
 Prof. James B. Rosenzweig\, UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
DESCRIPTION:The modern accelerator has undeniably served as an essenti
 al\, workhorse scientific instrument\, underpinning progress in fields
  from high energy physics through colliding beams\, to structural biol
 ogy\, condensed matter\, ultra-fast science\, and and high energy dens
 ity physics through light sources. The future of these enterprises is 
 threatened\, however\, by the size and attendant cost of building the 
 next generation instruments. The urgency of providing a new path in ac
 celerators has been recognized for several decades by now\, solutions 
 offered\, and dramatic progress made. These solutions include use of d
 irect laser acceleration\, and new schemes termed "wakefield accelerat
 ors"\, in which one may achieve acceleration in plasma with over 1 TV/
 m electric fields. Thus one may envision shrinking future accelerators
  by three-to-four orders of magnitude in size. While the ultimate goal
  of such research is to provide a path to TeV high energy physics mach
 ines\, this goal is still years off. In this talk\, we will therefore 
 discuss frontier results from the advanced accelerator field\, and pla
 ce them in the context of nearer term application to the next generati
 on  X-ray free-electron laser. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2336
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