Accelerator Physics

Summary

Accelerator physics deals with how particle beams are created, accelerated, steered, measured and controlled to finally be tailored to specific purposes. This is relevant for laboratories such as ESS, CERN and the MAX IV, but also for medicine or semi-conductor development.

The focus of the Accelerator Physics group is on electron accelerators to produce synchrotron radiation. While our main interest and competence is in the fields of Free Electron Lasers, we are also engaged in machine learning applied to accelerators, storage ring dynamics and novel methods such as plasma wakefield acceleration. Although we are closest to the MAX IV, we also have running collaborations with the free electron lasers at EuXFEL and FLASH in Hamburg, SwissFEL in Villigen and FERMI in Trieste.

Our recent work includes

• The Free Electron Laser design in the SXL project for the MAX IV   https://www.maxiv.lu.se/beamlines-accelerators/accelerators/soft-x-ray-laser/
• Improving the optical properties of Free Electron lasers by advanced schemes for electron beam control
• Virtual diagnostics using machine learning at MAX IV, FERMI and SwissFEL
• Longitudinal phase space diagnostics at the MAX IV
• Plasma acceleration at FLASH
• Atto second free electron laser pulse generation at EuXFEL
• Storage ring free electron lasers

We also engage in other perspectives of accelerators, such as

• Support to the SESAME light source in Jordan in the Middle East https://www.sesame.org.jo/
• Research infrastructures and sustainability at Pufendorf Institute https://www.pi.lu.se/en/advanced-study-groups-0/research-infrastructures-sustainability-dimensions-and-critical-perspectives