With today’s accelerator facilities such as the 10 GeV FACET-II facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, extreme beam physics is emerging as a promising science area where ultrashort and dense electron beams can be used as a source of TV/m fields, enabling high field matter interaction and new applications in photon science and particle acceleration. By delivering extreme beams with...
Particle accelerators have played a critical role in high-energy physics for many decades. They have facilitated the discovery of elementary particles at the smallest scales and the study of fundamental interactions at the highest energies. The increasing size and cost of these facilities have turned them into truly international projects. Next-generation accelerators will advance the...
The achievement of ignition on the National Ignition Facility in 2022 demonstrated the fundamental feasibility of controlled thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory for energy gain, and was the first major hurdle in efficiently harvesting fusion energy through inertial fusion energy (IFE). Excitement has been growing worldwide, with notable activity in the public and private sectors. To make...