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Laser wakefield acceleration is a widely studied method for accelerating charged particle bunches, with selfinjection being a key feature. However, as the bunch accelerates beyond the driver velocity, it shifts out of the maximal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 D. S. Bondar , W. Leemans , V. I. Maslov , I. N. Onishchenko

Plasma wakefields offer high acceleration gradients, orders of magnitude larger than conventional RF accelerators. However, the achievable luminosity remains relatively low, typically limited by repetition rate and the charge accelerated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 John P. Farmer , Giovanni Zevi Della Porta

Plasma wakefield acceleration in the nonlinear blowout regime has been shown to provide high acceleration gradients and high energy transfer efficiency while maintaining great beam quality for electron acceleration. In contrast, research on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Shiyu Zhou , Weiming An , Siqin Ding , Jianfei Hua , Warren B. Mori , Chan Joshi , Wei Lu

In a plasma wakefield accelerator driven by a train of short particle bunches, it is possible to locally increase the acceleration rate by introducing a small negative gradient of the plasma density. A regime is possible in which the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 N. V. Okhotnikov , K. V. Lotov

Laser wakefield accelerators rely on the extremely high electric fields of nonlinear plasma waves to trap and accelerate electrons to relativistic energies over short distances. When driven strongly enough, plasma waves break, trapping a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 J. P. Palastro , B. Malaca , J. Vieira , D. Ramsey , T. T. Simpson , P. Franke , J. L. Shaw , D. H. Froula

A novel approach for positron injection and acceleration in laser driven plasma wakefield is proposed. A theoretical model is developed and confirmed through PIC simulation. One ring-shaped beam and one co-axially propagating Gaussian beam…

Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize the field of particle acceleration, especially toward compact accelerators for high-energy and high-power…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 C. A. Lindstrøm , S. Corde , R. D'Arcy , S. Gessner , M. Gilljohann , M. J. Hogan , J. Osterhoff

Laser-plasma acceleration is considered as a modern method of accelerating bunches using a wakefield excited by a laser pulse. This paper demonstrates the use of a longitudinally inhomogeneous increasing plasma density gradient in a conical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 D. S. Bondar , W. Leemans , V. I. Maslov , I. N. Onishchenko

In the Phase 2 of the AWAKE first experimental run (from May to November 2018), an electron beam was used to probe and test proton-driven wakefield acceleration in a rubidium plasma column. In this work, we analyze the overall charge…

Hollow channel plasma wakefield acceleration is a proposed method to provide high acceleration gradients for electrons and positrons alike: a key to future lepton colliders. However, beams which are misaligned from the channel axis induce…

A scheme of wake field generation for positron acceleration using hollow or donut shaped electron driver beams is studied. An annular shaped, electron free region forms around a hollow driver beam creating a favorable region (longitudinal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Neeraj Jain , T. M. Antonsen , J. P. Palastro

The acceleration of charged particles is fundamental not only for experimental studies in particle physics but also for applications in fields such as semiconductor manufacturing and medical therapies. However, conventional accelerators…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Jesús E. López , Eduardo A. Orozco

Plasma accelerators can sustain very high acceleration gradients. They are promising candidates for future generations of particle accelerators for several scientific, medical and technological applications. Current plasma based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 J. Vieira , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

A near-hollow plasma channel, where the plasma density in the channel is much less than the plasma density in the walls, is proposed to provide independent control over the focusing and accelerating forces in a plasma accelerator. In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-19 Carl B. Schroeder , Eric Esarey , Carlo Benedetti , Wim Leemans

We propose a setup for positron acceleration consisting of an electron driver and a laser pulse creating a two-fold plasma column structure. The resulting wakefield is capable of accelerating positron bunches over long distances even when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-19 Lars Reichwein , Anton Golovanov , Igor Yu. Kostyukov , Alexander Pukhov

We propose a novel scheme for generating and accelerating simultaneously a dozen-GeV isolated attosecond electron bunch from an electron beam-driven hollow-channel plasma target. During the beam-target interaction, transverse oscillations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Liang-Qi Zhang , Mei-Yu Si , Tong-Pu Yu , Yuan-Jie Bi , Yong-Sheng Huang

Wakefield particle acceleration in hollow plasma channels is under extensive study nowadays. Here we consider an externally magnetized plasma layer (external magnetic field of arbitrary magnitude is along the structure axis) and investigate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Sergey N. Galyamin

We propose a hybrid laser-driven ion acceleration scheme using a combination target of a solid foil and a density-tailored background plasma. In the first stage, a sub-relativistic proton beam can be generated by the radiation pressure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-29 M. Liu , S. M. Weng , H. C. Wang , M. Chen , Q. Zhao , Z. M. Sheng , M. Q. He , Y. T. Li , J. Zhang

Self-guided femtosecond laser pulses propagating in low-pressure gas can generate plasma filaments, establishing a new framework for plasma wakefield acceleration. Unlike conventional schemes relying on mechanically confined or preformed…

Plasma wakefields can enable very high accelerating gradients for frontier high energy particle accelerators, in excess of 10 GeV/m. To overcome limits on total acceleration achievable, specially shaped drive beams can be used in both…