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The BELLA design is based on years of laser plasma accelerator research performed by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Accelerator and Fusion Research Div.’s (AFRD) Lasers and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies (LOASIS) program. In contrast to conventional accelerators, laser plasma accelerators produce electron density waves that move through a plasma, using laser beams to either heat and drill through a plume of gas or moving through plasma enclosed in a thin capillary in a crystalline block such as sapphire.
The laser is expected to be the first plasma accelerator to produce a beam of electrons with an energy of 10 GeV. Unlike the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — which achieved 50 GeV electron beams with traditional technology using a linear accelerator 2 miles long — the BELLA accelerator measures only 1 mile long and is supported by its laser system in an adjacent room.
The laser is expected to be the first plasma accelerator to produce a beam of electrons with an energy of 10 GeV. Unlike the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — which achieved 50 GeV electron beams with traditional technology using a linear accelerator 2 miles long — the BELLA accelerator measures only 1 mile long and is supported by its laser system in an adjacent room.
Such power.
And yet.. such grace.
:Petawatt = 1,000,000,000,000,000 Watts
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