Author Archives: Charlotte Palmer

Pre-Christmas electron beams at Gemini TA2

On our first experiment as a group and we have our first electrons beams. We are using the smaller of the two target areas of the wonderful Gemini laser and using just 450 mJ of energy we are accelerating electrons to 100s of MeV. We’ll be back in the new year to build on this and begin generating 5 beams per second and run our optimisation routines.