Ultrarelativistic electron beams accelerated by terawatt scalable kHz laser
Plasma Physics
2024-05-30 v2 Accelerator Physics
Abstract
We show the laser-driven acceleration of unprecedented, collimated ( divergence), and quasi-monoenergetic ( energy spread) electron beams with energy up to at repetition rate. The laser driver is a multi-cycle () optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) system, operating at (). The scalability of the driver laser technology and the electron beams reported in this work pave the way towards developing high-brilliance x-ray sources for medical imaging, innovative devices for brain cancer treatment, and represent a step towards the realization of a kHz GeV electron beamline.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2302.11415,
title = {Ultrarelativistic electron beams accelerated by terawatt scalable kHz laser},
author = {C. M. Lazzarini and G. M. Grittani and P. Valenta and I. Zymak and R. Antipenkov and U. Chaulagain and L. V. N. Goncalves and A. Grenfell and M. Lamac and S. Lorenz and M. Nevrkla and V. Sobr and A. Spacek and W. Szuba and P. Bakule and G. Korn and S. V. Bulanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11415},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table