High-quality multi-GeV electron bunches via cyclotron autoresonance
Accelerator Physics
2015-06-16 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
Autoresonance laser acceleration of electrons is theoretically investigated using circularly polarized focused Gaussian pulses. Many-particle simulations demonstrate feasibility of creating over 10-GeV electron bunches of ultra-high quality (relative energy spread of order 10^-4), suitable for fundamental high-energy particle physics research. The laser peak intensities and axial magnetic field strengths required are up to about 10^18 W/cm^2 (peak power ~10 PW) and 60 T, respectively. Gains exceeding 100 GeV are shown to be possible when weakly focused pulses from a 200-PW laser facility are used.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.1814,
title = {High-quality multi-GeV electron bunches via cyclotron autoresonance},
author = {Benjamin J. Galow and Jian-Xing Li and Yousef I. Salamin and Zoltán Harman and Christoph H. Keitel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1814},
year = {2015}
}