Summary
Particle accelerators are powerful tools used in medicine, manufacturing, and fundamental science, but conventional accelerator facilities are large, expensive, and limited in number. This award advances a promising alternative: laser-driven particle accelerators that can achieve extremely high energies over much shorter distances by using plasma as the accelerating medium. The award supports the extension of this type of accelerator to unprecedented power and length scales on the highest power laser in the United States while leveraging machine learning in the design and optimization of the e
