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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…

We propose a new and simple strategy for controlled ionization-induced trapping of electrons in a beam-driven plasma accelerator. The presented method directly exploits electric wakefields to ionize electrons from a dopant gas and capture…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 A. Martinez de la Ossa , J. Grebenyuk , T. Mehrling , L. Schaper , J. Osterhoff

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized positrons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating two-color petawatt laser pulse is investigated theoretically. Our Monte Carlo simulation based on a…

Using plasma mirror injection we demonstrate, both analytically and numerically, that a circularly polarized helical laser pulse can accelerate highly collimated dense bunches of electrons to several hundred MeV using currently available…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yin Shi , David Blackman , Alexey Arefiev

Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art accelerator modules by 3-4 orders of magnitude. Beam-driven wakefields…

The simultaneous laser-driven acceleration and angular manipulation of the fast electron beam is experimentally demonstrated. The bunch of multi-MeV energy charged particles is generated during the propagation of the femtosecond laser pulse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 K. Ivanov , D. Gorlova , I. Tsymbalov , I. Tsygvintsev , S. Shulyapov , R. Volkov , A. Savelev

A method of generating spin polarized proton beams from a gas jet by using a multi-petawatt laser is put forward. With currently available techniques of producing pre-polarized monatomic gases from photodissociated hydrogen halide molecules…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Luling Jin , Meng Wen , Xiaomei Zhang , Anna Hützen , Johannes Thomas , Markus Büscher , Baifei Shen

We show using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and theoretical analysis that a high-quality electron beam whose density is modulated at angstrom scales can be generated directly using density downramp injection in a periodically modulated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Xinlu Xu , Fei Li , Frank S. Tsung , Kyle Miller , Vitaly Yakimenko , Mark J. Hogan , Chan Joshi , Warren B. Mori

Laser wakefield acceleration, characterized by the extremely high electric field gradient exceeding 100GV/m, is regarded as a compact and cost affordable technology for the next generation of particle colliders and light sources. However,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Jia Wang , Ming Zeng , Dazhang Li , Wentao Wang , Song Li , Ke Feng , Jie Gao

The acceleration of ions in the interaction of circular polarized laser pulses with overdense plasmas is investigated. For circular polarization laser pulses, the quasi-equilibrium for electrons is established due to the light pressure and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-12-26 X. Q. Yan , C. Lin , Z. M. Sheng , Z. Y. Guo , B. C. Liu , Y. R. Lu , J. X. Fang , J. E. Chen

Structured light pulses hold significant promise for their ability to overcome dephasing in laser-wakefield accelerators, that should facilitate applications in high-energy physics and XFEL. Numerical studies have shown that sculpting a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Aaron Liberman , Anton Golovanov , Slava Smartsev , Anda-Maria Talposi , Sheroy Tata , Victor Malka

Achieving high-quality electron beams from laser wakefield accelerators critically relies on density tailoring to control electron dynamics during injection, acceleration, and extraction. We report on the experimental observation of…

We consider injection and subsequent acceleration of electrons in narrow plasma channels irradiated by linearly and radially polarized ultraintense laser pulses. Using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we show that radially…

Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) is considered as one of the most competitive candidates for the accelerators of the next generation. With the development of high power laser technologies, LWFA has shown its potential of replacing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Ming Zeng , Ovidiu Tesileanu

The significance of laser-driven polarized beam acceleration has been increasingly recognized in recent years. We propose an efficient method for generating polarized proton beams from a pre-polarized hydrogen halide gas jet, utilizing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Zhikun Zou , Gan Guo , Meng Wen , Bin Liu , Xue Yan , Yangjié Liu , Luling Jin

The paper presents a study of wakefield generation and electron injection via propagation of radially polarized laser pulses in homogeneous pre-ionized plasma. The analytical study is based on Lorentz force and continuity equations.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Shivani Aggarwal , Saumya Singh , Dinkar Mishra , Bhupesh Kumar , Pallavi Jha

In recent years, Laser Plasma Acceleration (LPA) has become a promising alternative to conventional RF accelerators. However, so far, it has only been theoretically shown that generating polarized LPA beams is possible. The LEAP (Laser…

For a number of physical studies which are planned to be made with the next generation colliders, it is necessary to use polarized beams of both electrons and positrons. The problem of producing and acceleration of polarized electrons may…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Potylitsyn

In laser-wakefield acceleration, an ultra-intense laser pulse is focused into an underdense plasma in order to accelerate electrons to relativistic velocities. In most cases, the pulses consist of multiple optical cycles and the interaction…

Plasma wakefield acceleration, either laser driven or electron-bunch driven, has been demonstrated to hold great potential. However, it is not obvious how to scale these approaches to bring particles up to the TeV regime. In this paper, we…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Allen Caldwell , Konstantin Lotov , Alexander Pukhov , Frank Simon