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Laser-plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA) offers ultrahigh accelerating gradients in compact setups, but the complex non-linear nature of the process makes it challenging to generate high-quality beams. Injection of electron bunches from…

In a laser plasma accelerator (LPA), a short and intense laser pulse propagating in a plasma drives a wakefield (a plasma wave with a relativistic phase velocity) that can sustain extremely large electric fields, enabling compact…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. Benedetti , C. B. Schroeder , E. Esarey , W. P. Leemans

We propose a preliminary analytical procedure in 4 steps (based on an improved fully relativistic plane hydrodynamic model) to tailor the initial density of a cold diluted plasma to the laser pulse profile so as to control wave-breaking…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Gaetano Fiore

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

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…

We present few-femtosecond shadowgraphic snapshots taken during the non-linear evolution of the plasma wave in a laser wakefield accelerator with transverse synchronized few-cycle probe pulses. These snapshots can be directly associated…

The multi-stage technique for laser driven acceleration of electrons become a critical part of full-optical, jitter-free accelerators. Use of several independent laser drivers and shorter length plasma targets allows the stable and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 N. Pathak , A. Zhidkov , Y. Sakai , Z. Jin , T. Hosokai

Intense ultrashort laser pulses propagating through an underdense plasma are able to drive relativistic plasma waves, creating accelerating structures with extreme gradients. These structures represent a new type of compact sources for…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Johannes Wenz , Stefan Karsch

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

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…

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

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

Multistage coupling of laser-wakefield accelerators is essential to overcome laser energy depletion for high-energy applications such as TeV level electron-positron colliders. Current staging schemes feed subsequent laser pulses into stages…

Laser-plasma acceleration is an emerging technique for accelerating electrons to high energies over very short distances. The accelerated electron bunches have femtosecond duration, making them particularly relevant for applications such as…

The long proton beams present at CERN have the potential to evolve into a train of microbunches through the self-modulation instability process. The resonant wakefield generated by a periodic train of proton microbunches can establish a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Hossein Saberi , Guoxing Xia , Linbo Liang , John Patrick Farmer , Alexander Pukhov

We revisit the matching conditions for self-guided laser pulse propagation in plasma and refine their formulation to maximize the energy of electrons produced via laser wakefield acceleration. Bayesian optimization, combined with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 P. Valenta , K. G. Miller , B. K. Russell , M. Lamač , M. Jech , G. M. Grittani , S. V. Bulanov

Ionization injection is attractive as a controllable injection scheme for generating high quality electron beams using plasma-based wakefield acceleration. Due to the phase dependent tunneling ionization rate and the trapping dynamics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 X. L. Xu , C. J. Zhang , F. Li , Y. Wan , Y. P. Wu , J. F. Hua , C. -H. Pai , W. Lu , W. An , P. Yu , W. B. Mori , C. Joshi

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

A method based on laser wakefield acceleration with controlled ionization injection triggered by another frequency-tripled laser is proposed, which can produce electron bunches with low energy spread. As two color pulses co-propagate in the…

Since it is possible to form laser pulses with a frequency much larger than the frequency of visible light, Prof. T.Tajima proposed using such pulse to accelerate the particles at its injection into the crystal. Here, the wakefield…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Denys Bondar , Vasyl Maslov , Iryna Levchuk , Ivan Onishcenko