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Description
Plasma accelerators are now considered “mature enough” for driving super-bright energetic radiation and particle sources for applications cutting across a multitude of areas in society. Currently, facilities based on plasma accelerators are under design and construction both in the UK and in Europe. In the UK, we are building and commissioning a new national facility, the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC), which is due to start operations in 2027. Plasma accelerators driven by the 10Hz Petawatt laser in EPAC can yield bright, beam-like, high-energy x-rays, electrons, protons, ions, neutrons, and muons, opening up new areas of science and applications for exploration. I will outline the status of EPAC and some of the potential applications it would look to exploit.
