Japanese advanced accelerator work is summarized with respect to compactness, high beam quality, short electron bunch, and advanced application. GeV laser accelerator with the 300 MeV microtron and 100 TW 20 fs Ti:Sapphire laser is under construction and the preliminary operation has started at JAERI-APR. Self-modulated wakefield accelerator in 40 TW laser-plasma has yielded 35MeV electron (160 GV/m) and 7 MeV protons at ILE, Osaka Univ. ∼1 MeV electrons have been produced in moderately under-dense plasma with 1.8 TW laser at ETL. Ultralow emittance of pico-mn has been achieved at KEE-ATF as a development forward to a linear collider. BNL/GUN-IV installed at Univ. Tokyo has generated 240 fs (FWHM), 6πmm.mrad, 7nC bunches. Femtosecond streak camera, CTR interferometer, polychromator and fluctuation method are used for femtosecond electron bunch diagnostics. Time-resolved X-ray diffraction is going to visualize atomic motions in laser-irradiated GaAs monocrysral, which is one of the most promising applications of ultrashort beams.

Topics
X-ray diffraction, Interferometry, Streak cameras, Polychromator, Particle accelerators, Plasma acceleration, Microtron, Linear collider
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2001
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