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DESY and Imperial College London collaborate to improve control of powerful plasma accelerators with AI
AI for controlling next generation accelerators improves potential for applications in research, medicine and industry.
An international team of accelerator experts with participation of researchers from DESY has successfully demonstrated that an algorithm was able to tune the complex parameters involved in controlling the next generation of plasma accelerators. The algorithm was able to optimize the accelerator much more quickly than a human operator. The experiments led by Imperial College London researchers were conducted at the Central Laser Facility at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. The results are published today in Nature Communications.