Speaker
Alec Thomas
Description
The Zettawatt Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) is a National Science Foundation-funded user facility located at the University of Michigan in the US. The laser will be capable of producing 3-Petawatt pulses and can also be split to create synchronized 2.5-PW and 0.5-PW pulses. This presentation will describe the different capabilities of the facility available to users in each of the three target areas and the current laser status and recent results from first experiments on laser wakefield acceleration and x-ray generation.
| Working group | WG1 : Laser-driven plasma wakefield acceleration |
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Primary authors
Alec Thomas
Anatoly Maksimchuk
John Nees
Karl Krushelnick
(University of Michigan)
Bixue Hou
Carolyn Kuranz
Franko Bayer
Galina Kalinchenko
Grant Young
Gregg Sucha
Igor Jovanovic
Josh Latham
Lauren Weinberg
Louise Willingale
Milos Burger
Nick Ernst
Paul Campbell
Qing Zhang
Rich Anthony
Rick Van Camp
Veronica Contraras
Yong Ma