Gauss Centre for Superco... Market Share Analysis for July 2026

The availabiltiy of ultra-short, high-power lasers has led to greater interest in their potential use for accelerators, as the charge separation in plasmas can induce enormous electromagnetic field strengths on a sub-micrometer scale. With the high performance and extreme scalability of the Plasma Simulation Code (PSC) for fully kinetic simulations, a wide field of applications was researched: From ions for medical purposes (Ion Wave Breaking Acceleration and Mass-Limited Targets) to breakthrough Lepton acceleration by proton-driven wakefields (AWAKE), all the way to radiation generation (attosecond X-ray pulses from Ultra-Thin Foils). Even QED based approaches were covered in this project.