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SUMMARY:Extreme physics: Recreating stars and quasars with lasers and plasm
 a accelerators
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Stuart Mangles\, online or in person\, for his I
 mperial Inaugural.\nWe have limited in-person spaces available so please e
 nsure you register in advance.\nFeel free to join us online\nLink: https:/
 /youtube.com/live/Kfw2sq4HnGI\nAbstract\nCompared to some places in the Un
 iverse\, the Earth is fairly boring: it’s pretty cold\, not very dense\,
  and the magnetic fields around us are rather weak. Scientists have a  pr
 etty good understanding of how matter behaves on Earth\, but we don’t re
 ally understand how stuff behaves when it’s under the extreme conditions
  like those found in stars\, quasars and near black holes.\nWe can create 
 these extreme conditions in the lab here on Earth using some of the world
 ’s most powerful lasers. But these experiments are challenging to study\
 , in particular because we can only make the extreme conditions exist for 
 a fleeting moment.\nStuart Mangles is Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics at
  Imperial College London where he works on laser-plasma accelerators to pr
 oduce extremely short pulses of electrons\, x-rays and gamma rays. In his 
 inaugural lecture he will discuss how these techniques could prove a perfe
 ct tool for probing a range of extreme conditions produced in high power l
 aser experiments.\nBiography\nIn his research\, Stuart uses intense laser-
 plasma interactions to create new kinds of compact particle accelerators a
 nd X-ray light sources\, and exploits the unique properties of these sourc
 es to explore the physics of extreme conditions. \nParticle accelerators a
 re well known as important tools of scientific discovery\, but they are la
 rge and expensive machines. The laser wakefield acceleration technique he 
 researches now allows high-energy particle and X-ray beams to be produced 
 in a university size laboratory. Using these accelerators he can now produ
 ce multi-GeV electron beams in a plasma accelerator just a few centimetres
  long (something which a conventional accelerator can only achieve in one 
 hundred metres or more). \nThe unique properties of the beams that laser w
 akefield accelerators produce\, together with their co-location and easy s
 ynchronization with other high-power laser sources\, are now helping to dr
 ive a new generation of experiments. These experiments aim to understand h
 ow matter behaves under extreme conditions – extremely high temperatures
 \, densities and electromagnetic field intensities compared to anything fo
 und on Earth\, but conditions that are surprisingly common and important t
 hroughout the universe.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/158237/extreme-physics-recreating-sta
 rs-and-quasars-with-lasers-and-plasma-accelerators/
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LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Blackett Building\, South Kensington Campus\, 
 Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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