Research Interests:

General Interests:
Conception, design and realization of experimentation with particle beams.

Description of Research Interests:
My current interest is in experiments using high energy and high quality particle beams in the study of astrophysics and advanced accelerator concepts.

At the momment I'm pursuing the idea of combining high energy electron and positron beams that can be made available at SLAC to create a relativistic pair plasma. This kind of plasma is believed to play an important role in intriguing astrophysical phenomenon such as gamma-ray bursts, jets in AGNs, and cosmic acceleration. I have just carried out an experiment with the E150 Plasma Lens collaboration to demonstrate that a plasma can be used to focus not only electron but also positron beams. This could be used to improve the luminosity at future linear colliders. This study may also have implication for understanding the collimation of astrophysical jets which typically streams out for many kpc wihtout dispersing.