ANIMATION: World-Record Laser-Driven Plasma Acceleration at BELLA (VIDEO)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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This animation shows a 3D rendering of plasma waves (blue) excited by a petawatt laser pulse (red) at Berkeley Lab's BELLA Center as it propagates in a plasma channel. Some of the background electrons are trapped and accelerated to an energy of up to 8 GeV in the plasma wave (pink/purple). The simulation was performed on the Edison supercomputer at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

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Carlo Benedetti/Berkeley Lab

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