Advanced Accelerator Physics

The name "Advanced Accelerator Physics" covers LONG TERM research and development in accelerator physics. It includes R&D of new concepts, devices and technologies in accelerator and beam physics.

Some of the topics in Advanced Accelerator R&D are laser acceleration of electrons, wake field acceleration, novel high power rf sources, new diagnostics, Free-Electron Lasers, generating high brightness electron beams etc.

Laser acceleration methods cover many approaches, such as the use of plasma beat-waves, plasma wake-fields, Inverse-Cerenkov Acceleration, Inverse FEL Acceleration and more. The community doing research in these long-term Accelerator and Beam Physics R&D topics meets at Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshops to exchange ideas, promote the research in this field and provide a forum for publication of new ideas in this field.

The Advanced Accelerator Concepts workshop is the only acknowledged and fully sponsored forum that provides a platform for inter- and cross-disciplinary discussions on various aspects of advanced accelerator and beam physics/technology concepts covering a wide range of applications--from High Energy Colliders to Synchrotron Radiation Sources. The wide scope of the workshop includes new methods of particle acceleration to high energies, techniques for production of ultrahigh gradient electromagnetic fields in the laboratory, diagnostics and control of particle/photon beams to ultra-short dimensions and ultrafast time scales, and various energy and beam sources.

Proceedings of Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshops:

• Laser Acceleration of Particles, First Workshop, Paul J. Channel, Ed. (Los Alamos, NM, 1982); AIP Conference Proceedings No. 91.
• Laser Acceleration of Particles, Second Workshop, Chan Joshi and Thomas Katsouleas, Editors, (Malibu, CA, 1985); AIP Conference Proceedings No. 130.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Third Workshop, Frederick E. Mills, Ed. (Madison, WI , 1986); AIP Conf. Proc. No. 156.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Fourth Workshop, Chan Joshi, Ed. (Lake Arrowhead, CA, 1989); AIP Conf. Proc. No. 193.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Fifth Workshop, Jonathan S. Wurtele, Ed. (Port Jefferson, NY, 1992); AIP Conf. Proc. No. 279.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Sixth Workshop, Paul Schoessow, Ed. (Fontana, WI, 1994); AIP Conference Proceedings No. 335.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Seventh Workshop, Swapan Chattopadhyay, Julie McCullough, Per Dahl, Eds. (Lake Tahoe, CA, 1996); AIP Conference Proceedings No. 398.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts,  Eighth Workshop, edited by W. Lawson, C. Bellamy, and D. Brosius,  (Baltimore, MD, 1998) AIP Conference Proceedings No. 472.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Ninth Workshop, edited by P.L. Colestock and S. Kelley (Santa-Fe, NM, 2000), AIP Conference Proceedings 569.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Tenth Workshop, edited by C. E. Clayton and P. Muggli,  (Mandalay Beach, CA, 2002), AIP Conference Proceedings 647.
• Advanced Accelerator Concepts, Eleventh Workshop, (Stony Brook, NY, 2004). 

Besides the BNL Accelerator Test Facility there are other research centers in Advanced Accelerator Physics:

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• Accelerator Test Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Advanced Wake Accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory.
• Center for Beam Physics at Lawrence Berkely Laboratory.
• Beam Physics Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory.
• Accelerator Physics and Beam Dynamics at the Physics Department of UCLA.
• Laser Plasma Research Labs at the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA.
• Plasma Accelerator Group, University of Southern California.
• University of texas - Mike Downer
• University of Texas - Toshi Tajima
• SLAC Accelerator Research Department B
• Institute of Plasma Electronics and New Methods of Acceleration, Kharkov, Ukraine
• Linac Facility, University of Tokyo
• Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
• CERN, CLIC, The Compact Linear Collider Study
• University of Maryland
• Technical University of Eindhoven
• Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
• Center for Ultra-Fast Optical Science, University of Michigan
• Laser-Plasma Interaction Group, Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Pisa
• Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses,  École Polytechnique, Palaiseau
• Laser Plasma Group, Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching
• "PLEIADES" (Picosecond Laser Electron Interaction for Dynamic Evaluation of Structures) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
• University of Maryland's Dynamical Systems and Accelerator Theory Group

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