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Free-electron lasers (FELs) provide a revolutionary tool for capturing the structure and dynamics of matter in real time at the atomic scale. The size and cost of FELs can be substantially reduced by using laser wakefield acceleration…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Hengyuan Xiao , Fei Li , Shuang Liu , Yuchen Jiang , Siqin Ding , Zhi Song , Jianfei Hua , Wei Lu

Plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) represent one of the promising new accelerator concepts that are now being developed intensively for future applications in high-energy physics and industry. Among the unresolved problems of practical…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 G. V. Sotnikov , K. V. Galaydych , P. I. Markov

Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) is a promising approach for producing high-brightness electron beams in the GeV energy range, offering significant potential for compact next-generation accelerator facilities. In this work, we present a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Srimanta Maity , Francesco Massimo , Alex Whitehead , Pavel Sasorov , Alexander Molodozhentsev

Plasma accelerators driven by intense laser or particle beams provide gigavolt-per-meter accelerating fields, promising to drastically shrink particle accelerators for high-energy physics and photon science. Applications such as linear…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Carl A. Lindstrøm

Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration (DLWFA), a novel laser wakefield acceleration concept based on the recently demonstrated "flying focus" technology, offers a new paradigm in laser-plasma acceleration that could advance the…

We have investigated the role that the transverse electric field of the laser plays in the acceleration of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) operating in the quasi-blowout regime through particle-in-cell code simulations. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J L Shaw , F S Tsung , N Vafaei-Najafabadi , K A Marsh , N Lemos , W B Mori , C Joshi

Despite the successful demonstration of compact free electron lasers (FELs) driven by laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs), the pursuit of further enhancements in high-gain compact FELs presents a challenge due to the limitations in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Ke Feng , Kangnan Jiang , Runshu Hu , Chen Lv , Xizhuan Chen , Hai Jiang , Shixia Luan , Wentao Wang , Ruxin Li

The energy gain in laser wakefield accelerators is limited by dephasing between the driving laser pulse and the highly relativistic electrons in its wake. Since this phase depends on both the driver and the cavity length, the effects of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Döpp , E. Guillaume , C. Thaury , A. Lifschitz , K. Ta Phuoc , V. Malka

Laser wakefield accelerator experiments have made enormous progress over the past $\sim 20$ years, but their promise to revolutionize high-energy particle sources is only beginning to be realized. To make the next step toward engineering…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Lance Labun , Miguel Gracia-Linares , Ou Z. Labun , Stephen V. Milton

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

Propagation distances of intense laser pulses and high-charge electron beams through the plasma are, respectively, limited by diffraction and self-deceleration. This imposes severe constraints on the performance of the two major advanced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Tianhong Wang , Vladimir Khudik , Gennady Shvets

We present a conceptual design for a hybrid laser-to-beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. In this setup, the output beams from a laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator (LWFA) stage are used as input beams of a new beam-driven plasma…

The injection of electrons into a laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) is observed to generate an intense coherent ultra-broadband and ultrashort pulse radiation flash, consistent with the acceleration of electrons from rest to nearly the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 B. Miao , L. Feder , J. Elle , A. J. Goers , D. Woodbury , F. Salehi , J. K. Wahlstrand , H. M. Milchberg

Plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA) is a promising method for reducing the scale and cost of future electron-positron collider experiments by using shorter plasma sections to enhance beam energy. While electron acceleration has already…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Meiyu Si , Yongsheng Huang

The energy gain in laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) is ultimately limited by dephasing, occurring when accelerated electrons outrun the accelerating phase of the wakefield. We apply quasi-phasematching, enabled by axially modulated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. J. Yoon , J. P. Palastro , H. M. Milchberg

In an electron wakefield accelerator, an intense laser pulse or charged particle beam excites plasma waves. Under proper conditions, electrons from the background plasma are trapped in the plasma wave and accelerated to ultra-relativistic…

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 wakefield acceleration (LWFA) using high repetition rate mJ-class laser systems brings unique opportunities for a broad range of applications. In order to meet the conditions required for the electron acceleration with lasers…

In the laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) a short intense laser pulse, with a duration of the order of a plasma wave period, excites an unusually strong plasma wake wave (laser wakefield). Recent experiments on laser wakefield acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-08-22 A. G. Khachatryan , A. Irman , F. A. van Goor , K. -J. Boller

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