Accelerator Research and Development
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Modern accelerator facilities and systems represent a decisive technology of the future. They are indispensable when it comes to answering the major questions of our time. Today, accelerator systems are not only used in fundamental research, but also for innovations in materials research, bio and nano sciences, active ingredients research, and medical applications such as cancer therapy. The development of innovative accelerators is already today and also continues to be in the future a driving force for the exploration of new high tech fields. The Helmholtz Association's research centers in Hamburg, Darmstadt, Berlin, Jülich, Karlsruhe and Dresden have now joined forces to optimally use their synergies in this sector. In addition, an important task of the cooperation partners revolves around the education and training of young scientists.
Already today, the research facility ELBE – which is based on a superconducting electron linear accelerator operated by the HZDR – permits the acceleration of ultrashort electron bunches in a quality which allows scientists to conduct significantly more and better experiments within a shorter period of time than with comparable, normal conducting accelerators. Within the scope of the research topic “Accelerator Research and Development,” which is also a Helmholtz portfolio topic, methods for electron beam diagnostics on superconducting accelerators are to be optimized further so that it will be possible to operate light sources with improved properties. Other research topics include, for example, innovative particle sources, electron-photon interactions, and ultrashort particle bunches as well as innovative concepts for circular accelerators and accelerators with ultrahigh gradients.
Press Releases
- When electrons ride a wave
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft fördert ATHENA-Projekt mit 29,99 Mio. Euro
- Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range
- Extremely small and fast: laser ignites hot plasma
- Wie der Teilchenstrahl seine Struktur bekommt
- Fusion by strong lasers
- Laser-plasma accelerators without limits
- A closer look at superconductors
- Seven at one pulse
- Dynamic, yet inertial – and definitely futuristic
- Zeitreise zum Urknall
- Power boost thanks to gold lamellae: Research team develops new material system to convert and generate terahertz waves
- Digital frontier runners: CASUS involved in development of the world's largest supercomputer Frontier
- Dresdner Team am JUWELS Booster: HZDR-Forscher*innen testen Rechenkraft von Europas leistungsfähigstem Supercomputer
- Dem Unbekannten auf der Spur: Ehemalige HZDR-Doktorandin erhält Preis der Amerikanischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- Exploring the origin of the elements
- Spuren(elemente) kosmischer Explosionen
- Electrons riding a double wave: Research team presents a new type of particle accelerator
- Seeking a faster pathway to synthetic data
- Fresh momentum for cutting-edge research from Germany
- An X-ray view of carbon: New measurement method promises spectacular insights into the interior of planets
- IReNA: Das Netzwerk der Netzwerke
- Producing medical isotopes at extreme energy density
- Laser flashes for cancer research - Research team achieves milestone in proton irradiation
- Schnelleres Licht für die Spitzenforschung aus Deutschland
- Milestone for laser technology: demonstration of a free-electron laser driven by plasma accelerated electron beams
- Laser-driven creation of high-energy ions brings next-gen accelerators out of the lab
- More quantum efficiency for maximum brilliance
- Frosty hydrogen as target: New method improves proton acceleration with high power laser
- Materie aus dem Nichts
- In memoriam Eckart Grosse
- Milestone in plasma acceleration: HZDR team achieves new energy record for next generation proton accelerators
Involved HZDR institutes
Collaborations
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
Contacts
Publications
- Ziegler, T.; Göthel, I.; Assenbaum, S. et al.
Laser-driven high-energy proton beams from cascaded acceleration regimes
Nature Physics (2024) (10.1038/s41567-024-02505-0) - Dover, N. P.; Ziegler, T.; Assenbaum, S. et al.
Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities
Light: Science and Applications 12(2023), 71 (10.1038/s41377-023-01083-9) - Herklotz, A.; Stefania Rus, F.; Koch, M. M. et al.
Epitaxial Stabilization of Perovskite ATeO3 Thin Films
Coatings 13(2023)12, 2055 (10.3390/coatings13122055) - Chang, Y.-Y.; Couperus Cabadağ, J. P.; Debus, A. et al.
Reduction of the electron beam divergence of laser wakefield-accelerators by integrated plamsa lens
Physical Review Applied 20(2023), L061001 (10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.L061001) - Rehwald, M.; Assenbaum, S.; Bernert, C. et al.
Ultra-short pulse laser acceleration of protons to 80 MeV from cryogenic hydrogen jets tailored to near-critical density
Nature Communications 14(2023), 4009 (10.1038/s41467-023-39739-0) - Metzkes-Ng, J.; Brack, F.-E.; Kroll, F. et al.
The DRESDEN PLATFORM – A Research Hub for Ultra-high Dose Rate Radiobiology
Scientific Reports 13(2023)1, 20611 (10.1038/s41598-023-46873-8) - Paschke-Brühl, F.-L.; Kluge, T.; Marre, B. E. et al.
Heating in multi-layer targets at ultra-high intensity laser irradiation and the impact of density oscillation
New Journal of Physics 25(2023), 043024 (10.1088/1367-2630/accdfa) - Zobus, Y.; Brabetz, C.; Löser, M. et al.
Versatile, compact chirped pulse amplifier pump system for ultrafast optical parametric amplifiers
Optics Express 31(2023)3, 5002-5015 (10.1364/OE.477610) - Zobus, Y.; Brabetz, C.; Hornung, J. et al.
Millijoule Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplification as Replacement for High-Gain Regenerative Amplifiers
High Power Laser Science and Engineering 11(2023), e48 (10.1017/hpl.2023.30) - Falk, K.; Smid, M.; Boháček, K. et al.
Laser‑driven low energy electron beams for single‑shot ultra‑fast probing of meso‑scale materials and warm dense matter
Scientific Reports 13(2023), 4252 (10.1038/s41598-023-30995-0) - Pérez-Callejo, G.; Bouffetier, V.; Ceurvorst, L. et al.
Phase imaging of irradiated foils at the OMEGA EP facility using phase-stepping X-ray Talbot-Lau deflectometry
High Power Laser Science and Engineering 11(2023), e49 (10.1017/hpl.2023.44) - Ma, S.; Arnold, A.; Michel, P. et al.
The application of encoder–decoder neural networks in high accuracy and efficiency slit-scan emittance measurements
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 1050(2023), 168125 (10.1016/j.nima.2023.168125) - Hidding, B.; Assmann, R.; Bussmann, M. et al.
Progress in Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
Photonics 10(2023)2, 99 (10.3390/photonics10020099) - Zhou, F.; Adolphsen, C.; Dowell, D. et al.
Overview of CW electron guns and LCLS-II RF gun performance
Frontiers in Physics 11(2023), 1150809 (10.3389/fphy.2023.1150809) - Xiang, R.; Arnold, A.; Lewellen, J. W.
Superconducting radio frequency Photoinjectors for CW-XFEL
Frontiers in Physics 11(2023), 1166179 (10.3389/fphy.2023.1166179) - Perez-Martin, P.; Prencipe, I.; Sobiella, M. et al.
A novel multi-shot target platform for laser-driven laboratory astrophysics experiments
High Power Laser Science and Engineering 11(2023), e17 (10.1017/hpl.2023.8) - Schaber, J.; Xiang, R.; Arnold, A. et al.
Impact of various cleaning procedures on p-GaN surfaces
Surface and Interface Analysis 55(2023), 507-514 (10.1002/sia.7207) - Maalberg, A.; Kuntzsch, M.; Zenker, K. et al.
Regulation of electron bunch arrival time for a continuous-wave linac: Exploring the application of the H2 mixed-sensitivity problem
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 26(2023)7, 072801 (10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.072801) - Bock, S.; Oksenhendler, T.; Püschel, T. et al.
Spectral-temporal Measurement Capabilities of Third-order Correlators
Optics Express 31(2023)6, 9923-9934 (10.1364/opticaopen.21922056) - Schaber, J.; Xiang, R.; Teichert, J. et al.
Influence of surface carbon on the performance of cesiated p-GaN photocathodes with high quantum efficiency
Scientific Reports 13(2023), 3188 (10.1038/s41598-023-30329-0) - Schaber, J.; Xiang, R.; Gaponik, N.
Review of Photocathodes for electron beam sources in particle accelerators
Journal of Materials Chemistry C 11(2023), 3162-3179 (10.1039/D2TC03729G) - Steiniger, K.; Dietrich, F.; Albach, D. et al.
Distortions in focusing laser pulses due to spatio-temporal couplings – An analytic description
High Power Laser Science and Engineering (2024) (10.1017/hpl.2023.96) - Bernert, C.; Assenbaum, S.; Bock, S. et al.
Transient Laser-Induced Breakdown of Dielectrics in Ultrarelativistic Laser-Solid Interactions
Physical Review Applied 19(2023), 014070 (10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.014070) - Steiniger, K.; Widera, R.; Bastrakov, S. et al.
EZ: An Efficient, Charge Conserving Current Deposition Algorithm for Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations
Computer Physics Communications 291(2023), 108849 (10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108849) - Lu, P.; Arnold, A.; Teichert, J. et al.
Simulation of ELBE SRF gun II for high-bunch-charge applications
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 830(2016), 536-544 (10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.087) - Xiang, R.; Arnold, A.; Kamps, T. et al.
Experimental studies of dark current in a superconducting RF photo-injector
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 17(2014)4, 043401 (10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.043401) - Teichert, J.; Arnold, A.; Büttig, H. et al.
Free-Electron Laser Operation with a Superconducting Radio-Frequency Photoinjector at ELBE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 743(2014), 114-120 (10.1016/j.nima.2014.01.006)