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Matched beam loading in laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA), characterizing the state of flattening of the acceleration electric field along the bunch, leads to the minimization of energy spread at high bunch charges. Here, we demonstrate…

The effects of the initial spin orientation on the final electron beam polarization via laser wakefield acceleration in pre-polarized plasma are investigated theoretically and numerically. From a variation of the initial spin direction, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 L. R. Yin , X. F. Li , Y. J. Gu , N. Cao , Q. Kong , M. Buescher , S. M. Weng , M. Chen , Z. M. Sheng

A method of slicing of high-energy electron beams following their interaction with the transverse component of the wakefield left in a plasma behind a high intensity ultra short laser pulse is proposed. The transverse component of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Bulanov , T. Tajima , G. Mourou

Laser-driven plasma wakefields can provide hundreds of MeV electron beam in mm-range distances potentially shrinking the dimension of the actual particle accelerators. The plasma density plays a fundamental role in the control and stability…

Exploring new target schemes for laser wakefield accelerators is essential to meet the challenge of increasing repetition rates while ensuring stability and quality of the produced electron beams. The prototyping of a two-chamber gas cell…

Charged and quasi-neutral beams propagating through an unmagnetised plasma are subject to numerous collisionless instabilities on the small scale of the plasma skin depth. The electrostatic two-stream instability, driven by longitudinal and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Erwin Walter , John P. Farmer , Martin S. Weidl , Alexander Pukhov , Frank Jenko

Plasma-based electron and positron wakefield acceleration has made great strides in the past decade. However one major challenge for its applications to coherent light sources and colliders is the relatively large energy spread of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Y. P. Wu , J. F. Hua , C. H. Pai , W. An , X. L. Xu , C. J. Zhang , F. Li , Y. Wan , Z. Nie , Z. Zhou , J. Zhang , S. Liu , S. Y. Zhou , B. Peng , Y. Fang , W. Lu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi

A new electron injection scheme is proposed in sub-relativistic plasma wakefield accelerators. A transverse laser ionizes a dopant gas and ponderomotively accelerates the released electrons in the direction of wake propagation. This process…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-14 Ming Zeng , Alberto Martinez de la Ossa , Jens Osterhoff

Plasma-Based Acceleration (PBA) has emerged as a promising approach to achieve ultra-high gradient particle acceleration. While extensive PBA studies have been conducted using laser, electron, and proton drivers, significant challenges…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jiangdong Li , Jiancheng Yang , Guoxing Xia , Jie Liu , Wenlong Zhan , Ruihu Zhu

In the blowout regime of plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA), which is the most relevant configuration for current and future applications and experiments, the plasma flow that is excited by the ultra-relativistic drive beam is highly…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 P. Baxevanis , G. Stupakov

Single cycle laser pulse propagating inside a plasma causes controllable asymmetric plasma electron expulsion from laser according to laser carrier envelope phase (CEP) and forms an oscillating plasma bubble. Bubble's transverse wakefield…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 J. Kim , T. Wang , V. Khudik , G. Shvets

An electron irradiated by a linearly polarized relativistic intensity laser pulse in a cylindrical plasma channel can gain significant energy from the pulse. The laser electric and magnetic fields drive electron oscillations in a plane…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. V. Arefiev , V. N. Khudik , A. P. L. Robinson , G. Shvets , L. Willingale

We show that the properties of the electron beam and bright x-rays produced by a laser wakefield accelerator can be predicted if the distance over which the laser self-focuses and compresses prior to self-injection is taken into account. A…

An investigation of the multi-hundred MeV electron beam yield (charge) form helium, nitrogen, neon and argon gas jet plasmas in a laser-plasma wakefield acceleration experiment was carried out. The charge measurement has been made via…

An electron bunch passing through dielectric-lined waveguide generates $\check{C}$erenkov radiation that can result in high-peak axial electric field suitable for acceleration of a subsequent bunch. Axial field beyond Gigavolt-per-meter are…

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High-flux polarized particle beams are of critical importance for the investigation of spin-dependent processes, such as in searches of physics beyond the Standard Model, as well as for scrutinizing the structure of solids and surfaces in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Meng Wen , Matteo Tamburini , Christoph H. Keitel

A plasma beam dump uses the collective oscillations of plasma electrons to absorb the kinetic energy of a particle beam. In this paper, a modified passive plasma beam dump scheme is proposed using either a gradient or stepped plasma profile…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 K. Hanahoe , G. Xia , M. Islam , Y. Li , O. Mete-Apsimon , B. Hidding , J. Smith

The nonlinear absorption of laser radiation of relativistic intensities in the underdense plasma by a mechanism of stimulated bremsstrahlung of electrons on the ions/nuclei is investigated in the low frequency approximation. Coefficient of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Ghazaryan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons usually offers an axisymmetry around the laser propagation axis. Thus, the accelerating electrons that are focused on axis often execute small transverse oscillations. In this Article, we propose a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julien Ferri , Xavier Davoine