Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Laser Wakefield Particle Acceleration

A 2006 INCITE Project

This project, led by Cameron Geddes of Berkeley Lab, was awared 2.5 million hours to perform detailed 3D models of laser-driven wakefield particle accelerators. These plasma-based accelerators are not subject to electrical breakdown and have demonstrated accelerating gradients thousands of times those obtained in conventional accelerators. The particle-in-cell simulations proposed in this study will interpret recent experiments and assist in the planning of the next generation of particle accelerators and ultrafast applications in chemistry and biology.

Visualizations of the project's simulations.