Tor O. Raubenheimer
Professor of Particle Physics and AstrophysicsAssistant Director for Accelerator Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Research areas:
Accelerator Physics
Description
Lasers and Accelerators
My research is focused in two areas: the creation of compact accelerators for science, medicine and industry and study of high brightness electron and x-ray sources. The former consists of parallel development of high gradient microwave accelerators achieving reliable gradients of ~100 MV/m and plasma acceleration concepts with gradients of ~10 GV/m. Both of these accelerator systems have many challenges ranging from technology development to methods of formatting and controlling the particle beams. The applications range from future linear colliders with TeV-scale energies to compact light sources with beams of 10's of MeV. Studies usually involve a combination of analytic modeling and simulation as well as experimental studies at SLAC or at accelerator facilities around the world.
Selected Publications
- Dark currents and their effect on the primary beam in an X-band linac
- Suppression of secondary emission in a magnetic field using triangular and rectangular surfaces
- Direct Meaurement of the Tranverse Wakefields of Tapered Collimators
- Present status and first results of the final focus beam line at the KEK Accelerator Test Facility
- Observation of Magnetic Resonances in Electron Clouds in a Positron Storage Ring
- Plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET
- Demonstration of the Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation Technique for Short-Wavelength Seeded Free Electron Lasers