Event
John S. Toll Endowed Lecture
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
1410 Toll Physics Building
Anne Suplee
301 405 5944
asuplee@umd.edu
https://umdphysics.umd.edu/events/physicscolloquia.html#relativistic-optics-and-laser-driven-particle-accelerators
Distinguished University Professor Howard Milchberg, UMD
Relativistic optics and laser-driven particle accelerators
The remarkable increase in peak laser intensity over the past 30+ years –over 6 orders of magnitude--has spurred new and exciting advances in laser-driven sources of relativistic charged particles and light, along with the new field of indestructible plasma optics. I will start with our recent results demonstrating acceleration of electrons up to 10 GeV in just 30 cm—a distance 5,000 times smaller than required using conventional technology, and then work backward to highlight the physics building blocks that made such a result possible.
The John S. Toll Endowed Lecture honors Dr. Toll, former chair of the Department of Physics.
Tue, September 17, 2024 - 3:00pm; 1410 John S. Toll Physics Building
