A viable laser driver for a user plasma accelerator
Accelerator Physics
2018-12-26 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The construction of a novel user facility employing laser-driven plasma acceleration with superior beam quality will require an industrial grade, high repetition rate petawatt laser driver which is beyond existing technology. However, with the ongoing fast development of chirped pulse amplification and high average power laser technology, options can be identified depending on the envisioned laser-plasma acceleration scheme and on the time scale for construction. Here we discuss laser requirements for the EuPRAXIA infrastructure design and identify a suitable laser concepts that is likely to fulfil such requirements with a moderate development of existing technologies.
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@article{arxiv.1802.05546,
title = {A viable laser driver for a user plasma accelerator},
author = {L. A. Gizzi and P. Koester and L. Labate and F. Mathieu and Z. Mazzotta and G. Toci and M. Vannini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05546},
year = {2018}
}
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12 pages, 9 figures, European Advances Accelerator Conference, 2017