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Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of collisionless jets of electrons and positrons in an ambient electron-proton plasma have revealed an acceleration of positrons at the expense of electron kinetic energy. The dominant instability within…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 M E Dieckmann , S J Spencer , M Falk , G Rowlands

We discovered a simple regime where a near-critical plasma irradiated by a laser of experimentally available intensity can self-organize to produce positrons and accelerate them to ultra-relativistic energies. The laser pulse piles up…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 K. Sugimoto , Y. He , N. Iwata , I-L. Yeh , K. Tangtartharakul , A. Arefiev , Y. Sentoku

Plasma-based acceleration of positrons attracts extensive interests due to the ultrahigh accelerating gradient and ultrashort duration, while generating wakefield positron beam by the inherent injection is still a great challenge. Here, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Ting Sun , Zhen-Ke Dou , Ya-Qing Huang , Feng Wan , Qian Zhao , Jian-Xing Li

A strongly mismatched regime of self-guided nonlinear laser-plasma acceleration in the bubble regime is modeled for optimization of Laser to Particle energy efficiency with application to recently proposed laser positron accelerator. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Aakash A. Sahai

Relativistic laser wakefield acceleration is characterized by an unsurpassed accelerating gradient, which is very suitable for electron acceleration over short distances and could be a promising candidate for next-generation compact…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 Wei-Yuan Liu , Xing-Long Zhu , Min Chen , Su-Ming Weng , Feng He , Zheng-Ming Sheng , Jie Zhang

In this paper we discuss design considerations and beam dynamics challenges associated with laser-driven plasma-based accelerators as applied to multi-TeV-scale linear colliders. Plasma accelerators provide ultra-high gradients and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 C. B. Schroeder , C. Benedetti , S. S. Bulanov , D. Terzani , E. Esarey , C. G. R. Geddes

While laser-plasma accelerators have demonstrated a strong potential in the acceleration of electrons up to giga-electronvolt energies, few experimental tools for studying the acceleration physics have been developed. In this paper, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 C. Thaury , K. Ta Phuoc , S. Corde , P. Brijesh , G. Lambert , S. P. D. Mangles , M. S. Bloom , S. Kneip , V. Malka

Plasma acceleration is considered a prospective technology for building a compact multi-TeV electron-positron collider in the future. The challenge of this endeavor is greater for positrons than for the electrons because usually the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Dominika Maslarova , Bertrand Martinez , Marija Vranic

We propose a new approach to high-intensity relativistic laser-driven electron acceleration in a plasma. Here, we demonstrate that a plasma wave generated by a stimulated forward-scattering of an incident laser pulse can be in the longest…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 S. P. Sadykova , A. Rukhadze , T. G. Samkharadze

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

Preserving the quality of positron beams in plasma-based accelerators, where wakefields are generated in electron filaments, is challenging. These wakefields are characterized by transversely non-linear focusing fields and non-uniform…

We propose a new approach to high-intensity laser-driven electron acceleration in a plasma. Here, we demonstrate that a plasma wave generated by a stimulated forward-scattering of an incident laser pulse can be in a longest acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 A. A. Rukhadze , S. P. Sadykova , T. G. Samkharadze , P. Gibbon

Ultra-relativistic hollow electron beams can drive plasma wakefields ($\sim$ GV/m) suitable for positron acceleration. Stable propagation of hollow electron beams for long distances in plasmas is required to accelerate positrons to high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Neeraj Jain

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…

Laser-plasma accelerators represent a promising technology for future compact accelerating systems, enabling the acceleration of tens of pC to above $1\,$GeV over just a few centimeters. Nonetheless, these devices currently lack the…

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

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

The self-modulation instability is a key effect that makes possible the usage of nowadays proton beams as drivers for plasma wakefield acceleration. Development of the instability in uniform plasmas and in plasmas with a small density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. V. Lotov

Hollow plasma channels are attractive for lepton acceleration because they provide intrinsic emittance preservation regimes. However, beam breakup instabilities dominate the dynamics. Here, we show that thin, warm hollow channels can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 T. Silva , L. D. Amorim , M. C. Downer , M. J. Hogan , V. Yakimenko , R. Zgadzaj , J. Vieira

We propose a scheme to overcome the great challenge of polarization loss in spin-polarized ion acceleration. When a petawatt laser pulse penetrates through a compound plasma target consisting of a double layer slab and prepolarized hydrogen…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Zheng Gong , Yinren Shou , Yuhui Tang , Xueqing Yan