What we do...

The Particle Beam Physics Laboratory (PBPL) is a state-of-the-art center for research into beam physics and accelerator technologies. Relativistic particle beams and the accelerators which produce them have served as cutting edge tools in scientific research for three-quarters of a century. The practitioners of accelerator science can thus be placed in a tradition of instrument development dating back to Galileo. In the present time, beam physics is a vibrant, cross-disciplinary enterprise, which intersects heavily with high-energy density science, plasma physics, ultra-fast lasers, nonlinear dynamics and various high-field/high-power technologies. In addition, applications extend from the energy frontier in particle physics, to ultra-fast phenomena in biology and materials, and to industrial and medical uses.

PBPL research covers a wide range of beam dynamics and acceleration methods; beam-radiation interaction and productions; beam-plasma interactions; beam-matter interactions and diagnostics. Our work includes the creation of ultra-fast, high-brightness electron beams; the application of such beams to advanced accelerators using lasers and/or plasmas; the creation of new types of light sources, such as free-electron lasers and inverse-Compton scattering sources based on high brightness electron beams.

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (Jul 13, 2011)

Longitudinal profile diagnostic scheme with subfemtosecond resolution for high-brightness electron beams

Applied Physics Letters (May 18, 2011)

Resonant excitation of coherent Cerenkov radiation in dielectric lined waveguides

Physical Review Letters (May 6, 2011)

Nonlinear Longitudinal Space Charge Oscillations in Relativistic Electron Beams

Physical Review Letters (April 22, 2011)

Generating Optical Orbital Angular Momentum in a High-Gain Free-Electron Laser at the First Harmonic

Journal of Applied Physics (May 1, 2009)

Coherent transition radiation from a helically microbunched electron beam

Physical Review Letters (April 29, 2009)

Helical Electron-Beam Microbunching by Harmonic Coupling in a Helical Undulator