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The development of compact accelerator facilities providing high-brightness beams is one of the most challenging tasks in field of next-generation compact and cost affordable particle accelerators, to be used in many fields for industrial,…

The wake field excitation in an unmagnetized plasma by a multi-petawatt, femtosecond, pancake-shaped laser pulse is described both analytically and numerically in the regime with ultrarelativistic electron jitter velocities, when the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 D. Jovanovic , R. Fedele , M. Belic

It is shown, by simulation and theory, that circularly or elliptically polarized terahertz radiation can be generated when a static magnetic (B) field is imposed on a gas target along the propagation direction of a two-color laser driver.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 W. -M. Wang , P. Gibbon , Z. -M. Sheng , Y. -T. Li

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…

The bubble structure generated by laser and plasma interactions changes in size depending on the local plasma density. The self injection electrons position with respect to wakefield can be controlled by tailoring the longitudinal plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Q. Yu , Y. J. Gu , X. F. Li , S. Huang , F. Zhang , Q. Kong , Y. Y. Ma , S. Kawata

A cosmic acceleration mechanism is introduced which is based on the wakefields excited by the Alfven shocks in a relativistically flowing plasma, where the energy gain per distance of a test particle is Lorentz invariant. We show that there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pisin Chen , Toshiki Tajima , Yoshiyuki Takahashi

Self-focusing and guiding of ultra-short (pulse duration: L<lambda_P: plasma wavelength), intense laser pulses in underdense plasma relevant to laser wakefield electron acceleration has been studied numerically. The analysis considers…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 D. Hazra , A. Moorti

We propose to use tightly focused lasers to generate high quality electron beams in laser wakefield accelerators. In this scheme, the expansion of the laser beam after the focal position enlarges the size of wakefield bubble, which reduces…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Jia Wang , Ming Zeng , Dazhang Li , Xiaoning Wang , Jie Gao

An ultra-short (about 30 fs) petawatt laser pulse focused with a wide focal spot (about 100 microns) in a rarefied plasma (electron density of order 10^{17} per cm^3) excites a nonlinear plasma wakefield which can accelerate injected…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. M. Gorbunov , S. Yu. Kalmykov , P. Mora

In this paper, we get the 1D approximate analytical solution of the plasma electrostatic wake driven by the laser, and get the oscillating frequency of the wake modified by the nonlinear high order terms, and find that the frequency depends…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 Xiongwei Zhu

Plasma wakefield acceleration is a method for accelerating particle beams using electromagnetic fields that are orders of magnitude larger than those found in conventional radio frequency cavities. The core component of a plasma wakefield…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 S. Gessner , the AWAKE Collaboration

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

Advances in the generation of relativistic intensity pulses with wavelengths in the X-ray regime, through high harmonic generation from near-critical plasmas, opens up the possibility of X-ray driven wakefield acceleration. The similarity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 B. Svedung Wettervik , A. Gonoskov , M. Marklund

Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) provides ultrahigh acceleration gradients of 10s of GeV/m, providing a novel path towards efficient, compact, TeV-scale linear colliders and high brightness free electron lasers. Critical to the success…

Relativistic wakes produced by intense laser or particle beams propagating through plasmas are being considered as accelerators for next generation of colliders and coherent light sources. Such wakes have been shown to accelerate electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 C. J. Zhang , J. F. Hua , Y. Wan , B. Guo , Y. P. Wu , C. -H. Pai , F. Li , H. -H. Chu , Y. Q. Gu , X. L. Xu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi , J. Wang , W. Lu

This investigation deals with enhanced plasma wakefield amplitude generated using two co-propagating laser pulses in homogeneous plasma. The configuration consists of a seed pulse followed by a trailing pulse, both linearly polarized and…

When a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse enters a waveguide, the pulse energy is coupled into waveguide optical modes. The longitudinal laser field effectively accelerates electrons along the axis of the channel, while the asymmetric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ke Hu , Longqing Yi , Tünde Fülöp

Theoretical studies have been made into the relativistic drive bunch generation of a wakefield in a cylindrical waveguide filled with a transversely inhomogeneous plasma. According to the model used, the transversely inhomogeneous plasma is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 K. V. Galaydych , P. I. Markov , G. V. Sotnikov

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

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…