Accelerator research
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is one of the world’s leading facilities for building and operating large particle accelerators. DESY and the University of Hamburg have closely collaborated on accelerator research for decades now. Together, the two partners develop new technologies and study accelerator physics at existing facilities. .
Current research topics include ring accelerators for synchrotron radiation sources, electron sources with pulse lengths in the attosecond to femtosecond range, new types of plasma accelerators and superconducting linear accelerators for free-electron lasers and particle physics colliders. Postgraduate positions are offered for doctoral candidates working on accelerator theory and on numerous experimental topics.
Research groups in accelerator research
The accelerator research at DESY and Universität Hamburg is described on the following websites:
Research field accelerators at DESY
Research group Florian Gruener (UHH)
PhD opportunities in Hamburg are available in the following topics and teams:
Improved Superconducting RF structures towards long pulse and continuous wave operation: optimized niobium surfaces and alternative materials
Contact: Hans Weise, Wolfgang Hillert
Compact plasma-based particle accelerators for applications in matter research, health, and industry
Contact: Andreas Maier, Wim Leemans
Generation of ultra-short, bright electron beams: from pico-second over femto-second to atto-second electron and light pulses
Contact: Holger Schlarb, Ralph Aßmann, Florian Burkart, Frank Stephan, Klaus Flöttmann
Further improvement and better characterization of photoinjectors for free electron lasers (for current pulsed and future CW operation)
Contact: Frank Stephan
R&D on high energy, high repetition rate THz generation for future pump-probe experiments at the European XFEL
Contact: Frank Stephan
R&D in radiation biology for 'FLASH' radiation therapy of tumors
Contact: Frank Stephan
Generation and control of high repetition rate external seeded FEL radiation within the FLASH2020+ project
Contact: Lucas Schaper, Siegfried Schreiber, Ingmar Hartl, Martin Beye
Xseed - a project to prepare and to develop new schemes of seeded FEL radiation at FLASH
Contact: Lucas Schaper, Sven Ackermann, Wolfgang Hillert, Ingmar Hartl
Novel schemes to generate ultra-short radiation at FLASH towards attosecond scale experiments
Contact: Mikhail Yurkov, Evgeny Schneidmiller, Pardis Niknejadi
Optical resonator configuration to generate seeded FEL radiation with multiple MHz repetition rate
Contact: Lucas Schaper, Johann Zemella, Sven Ackermann, Wolfgang Hillert
Intelligent Process Control Group
Contact: Annika Eichler
